Sentence examples for control over waters from inspiring English sources

Its attempt to expand its claims on territorial waters by dispatching shipping fleets, coastguard vessels and sailing its new aircraft carrier has already given a sense of inevitability to Chinese control over waters considered rich in oil, gas and marine resources.

Control over water sources is not the only issue critics raise against the private sector.

Favored by professionals because it gives them control over water temperature — ideally 200 to 210 degrees.

These range from increased rates to long-term loss of local control over water resources and adjacent lands.

CHINA'S emperors regarded control over water as one of the principal ways of controlling the country.

A government body – the Water Directorate – is meant to be in charge of water planning, but Barton says it has no control over water, "beyond basically giving it away to private owners".

Social movements pursuing public control over water supplies, and democratic and participatory governance models, are also drawn to the elements of public participation in decision-making, accountability and access to justice underscored by the human right to water.

Introduce land reforms and raise taxation for the wealthy: We should work towards reducing asset inequality through redistributive land reforms but also through inheritance taxes, preventing monopoly of control over water, forests and mineral resources and reducing financial concentration.

This will be partly addressed later this year when engineers begin installing the second stage of the project, which will force recalcitrant upstream provinces to cede control over water-diversion sluice gates.

The latest generation of espresso machines allow not only precise control over water temperature — the bulk of innovation in espresso machines over the past century has been devoted to water-temperature stability and control — but minute variations in pressure in the course of a shot's extraction.

I've helped out with shearing sheep at a station in the Australian Outback, I've seen the vastly different landscapes of the deserts in Egypt and Jordan, and when I looked out the window of my hotel in Las Vegas, it hit me once again how powerful control over water can be.