Sentence examples for control over proceedings from inspiring English sources

Activists from West Bank settlements packed a Likud convention on Sunday, demanding a secret ballot to choose its chairman and denying Netanyahu control over proceedings.

On Sunday, the settlers engaged in a show of force, embarrassing Netanyahu at the Likud convention (they demanded a secret ballot to choose the convention's chairman and denied Netanyahu control over proceedings).

Whilst there is potential for this kind of development, at the moment there seems to be a preference for bringing outsiders in, as at least that way you can exert a degree of control over proceedings.

The massive delays in the trial process and the tribunal's lack of control over proceedings would have been issues regardless of the verdict.

These two struggle for control of the city amidst immigrant internments, land grabs, Japanese submarine threats, gang wars, pornography, eugenics, blackmail, and much more, while the American military and FBI loom over proceedings.

In any event, the House managers will have only limited control over the proceedings.

As the candidates sniped at each other, moderator Wolf Blitzer struggled to reassert his control over the proceedings.

And when the fifty-six-year-old actor does return to stage performance he exerts a Caeser-like control over the proceedings.

Mehta is a superb technician, and his control over the proceedings is always assured, but the surfeit of moment-to-moment excitement is never supported by an underlying vision of the score, the classic Mehta trade-off.

The predictable clambake was made worse when Mr. Thomas, in an effort to keep everyone amused (or keep himself at the center of things), usurped control over the proceedings, now hushing the parquet to allow the sounds from the balcony through, now running around the hall like Jerry Springer with a stick, to encourage (and comically overconduct) the riffings of individual audience members.

With considerable experience in the General Assembly – first as Speaker of the House, and later presiding over the Kentucky Senate as lieutenant governor – Carroll exercised a great deal of control over the proceedings of the legislature.