Sentence examples for control over subjects from inspiring English sources

Buddhist monasteries formerly exercised great control over subjects and land in the eastern valleys.

Because of their great experimental control over subjects, exposures, and endpoints, toxicologists tend to consider a wider range of toxic interactions among mixture components and sequential exposures than is practical for human studies.

During the reign of Chimalpopoca, Maxtla, the ruler of Azcapotzalco, attempted to secure tighter control over subject states by replacing their tlatoanis with his own men.

Football coaches have always demanded complete control over their subjects, running their teams like military operations.

Nonetheless, it seems that the North Korean government has scored an important victory in its long struggle to maintain control over its subjects.

To the contrary, it is in the very nature of the state to extend its control over its subjects, limiting and finally eliminating whatever liberty they once had to control their own lives.

The data in such research are unavoidably bad, because researchers have little control over their subjects' lives.

The Legalists were philosophers and officials who focused on developing practical techniques for rulers to secure and administer territory, and to preserve their control over their subjects, particularly the aristocracy and the emerging bureaucracy.

Equating Palestinian freedom with terrorism, I worried that if Israel relinquished strict control over its subjects, the lives of its Jewish citizens would be imperiled.

The retreat from Roxburgh exposed the king to questions regarding his control over his subjects, his military competence and his diplomatic abilities yet he remained determined to continue with the war against England.

Here the target is not the authoritarian ruler's control over a subject territory attached to his homeland, but his control over the homeland itself.