Sentence examples for control over its citizens from inspiring English sources

Its emphasis on human well-being, freedom and dignity threatened the party's control over its citizens.

Given North Korea's deep isolation and the government's tight control over its citizens, the broadcast issue is of crucial interest.

Little further improvement is likely now, says Markos Lemma, a local entrepreneur.What the government wants from China are cheap loans and more control over its citizens.

Kadyrov's Chechnya is a more extreme version of Russia: a mafia state that uses religious rhetoric to enforce control over its citizens.

But Zhan played down fears that Xi's dominance of the headlines represented a return to the grim days of the Cultural Revolution when Beijing held almost total control over its citizens access to information.

But the internet as an indication of bilateral cooperation, as a tool of self-sufficiency, as an identifiable symbol of a government's concession of control over its citizens – that's what will get the punks on G Street and the hotel employees in máquinas talking.

However, the US is famously reluctant to hand over its citizens.

China in that scenario would face a most unpleasant choice: To allow its walled-off version of the internet to lose much of its value as essential infrastructure for economic development; or, to give up substantial control over what its citizens can, and cannot, see.

"The Legislature has run roughshod over its citizens for a long time," he said.

But the net also threatened control over what citizens read and watched.

In the middle of an economic and political predicament that they did not create and had no control over, citizens all over Europe feel cheated.