Sentence examples for control over a vast from inspiring English sources

By 2011, he was an unrivalled strongman with control over a vast military and security apparatus.

It was a short step from there to gaining control over a vast industrial empire.

In August, it bought Fairchild Publications, which gives Wintour control over a vast publishing empire that includes Women's Wear Daily and W magazine.

AQIM is estimated to be only a few hundred strong, but it has control over a vast tract of land that stretches from just north of Timbuktu 370 miles (600km) north to Taoudenni near the Mauritanian and Algerian borders.

And how do the risks escalate as government's role expands from a few bailouts to control over a vast portion of the financial sector of the world's largest economy?

Whoever is at fault, deep friction is one legacy of Soviet ethnic and demographic policies that moved millions of people around — and shifted many borders — in order to cement Kremlin control over a vast patchwork of territories.

The NRT arrangement allows Cendant to exert more control over a portion of its vast network of franchised offices.

However their effective control remains a vast subject of study.

Thus, we will check the territorial control capabilities of this network over a vast area of central-south Iberia.

Almost 1,000 kilometres south in Bamako, a transitional government struggling to exert control over the vast territory amid violent demonstrations and counter-coup attempts has appeared powerless to stop the attacks.

For it is a difficult matter for three men, or even two, who are equal in rank and as a result of war have gained control over such vast interests, to be of one accord.