Sentence examples for control over a place from inspiring English sources

How can the party maintain control over a place that, in ideological terms, is no longer communist?

"The emphasis today has been to get legal control over a work place that was a great cover for all sorts of illegal activity.

Visual cues exert a powerful control over hippocampal place cell activities that encode external spaces.

More importantly, a Remedial Right Only Theory of the unilateral right to secede will only be defensible in the end if it rests upon a plausible account of what entitles a state to control over a territory in the first place.

The city elects a mayor, but if the mayor misbehaves (as Marion Barry did in the days when he used crack cocaine) Congress asserts its very real federal control over the place.

Negotiations toward a final peace settlement at Camp David last summer broke down over the emotion-charged issue of Jerusalem and control over the place in the Old City that is sacred to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif.

In addition, technology enables new "blended learning" strategies for a student to learn partially through a formal education environment away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace.

But even within mutant clones of cells, only a single, early essential requirement can be examined, and the degree of control over the place and timing of mutant clone generation can vary substantially.

The ultimate proof of a tamer's dominance and control over a lion is demonstrated by placing his head in the lion's mouth.

It places control over a public company in the hands of a small board of directors at the nonprofit, rather than with the larger group of investors who own stock in the firm. .

But invoking exceptionalism and the sense of power and destiny at the heart of the concept also seems to tap into a desire to reassert control: over America's place in the world in an era of globalization and threats from stateless terrorists; over institutions judged to have failed us, and over a social contract — that if you work hard you will get your fair share — that seems to have frayed.