Sentence examples for control over countries from inspiring English sources

Finally, it would be wrong to use the battle against terrorism to establish control over countries or regions.

He opened up trade routes that are still flourishing today, and gained strategic control over countries that are now once again looking to China as undisputed regional leader.

Putin is a man "who believes his mission is to restore Russian greatness," Clinton said, which includes gaining control over countries once under the former Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

Although many Latin American elites profited from the new order, they ceded a degree of control over their countries to the industrializing economies of the North Atlantic.

German taxpayers will never agree to common issuance of Euro bonds with profligate and undisciplined spenders unless they have direct control over those countries' budgets.

Mr. Putin's efforts initially appeared limited to imposing state control over the country's natural resources.

In restoring state control over the country's oil and gas reserves, he has rightly drawn on the East Asian model rather than Anglo-American neoliberalism.

Other changes to the constitution furthered indigenous rights, strengthened state control over the country's natural resources, and enforced a limit on the size of private landholdings.

President Thein Sein of Myanmar announced a "second wave of reforms" on Tuesday aimed at rolling back decades of state control over the country's sheltered and dysfunctional economy.

On Monday, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed the bill into law ending 76-years of state control over the country's vast oil resources.

Some are increasingly challenging state authority and asserting control over the country's resources and access points.