Sentence examples for control seeking from inspiring English sources

There are tactical differences as well: instead of unleashing the population to attack the Party, as Mao did in his call to "bombard the headquarters," Xi Jinping has swung in the direction of tighter control, seeking to fortify the Party and his own grip on power.

Meanwhile, many foreign governments have long been secretly working with black hat hackers to create unauthorized backdoors into the iPhone, usually without Apple's knowledge or control, seeking the ability to access documents of officials from rival governments.

The Superbas lodged a complaint against the Reds, claiming that Kelley was still under their control, seeking compensation from the Reds.

Once again, the government, which has promised for months to bring the situation under control, sought to defuse criticism with a new promise.

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(Disney bid for the Harry Potter rights but balked at the degree of creative control sought by the author J.K. Rowling; cost was also an issue).

Then security forces under Mr. Maliki's control sought to arrest the country's Sunni vice president, who fled to the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the north.

After all, in Connecticut, 17 is considered old enough to donate blood, acquire birth control, seek psychiatric treatment, or terminate a pregnancy all without parental consent.

And indeed, the House has clocked more time in Washington this year than in any other session since 1995, when Republicans, newly in control, sought to make a similar point.

That treaty, signed by the United States and the Soviet Union, and viewed by some as the cornerstone of cold-war arms control, sought to prevent nuclear war by forcing Washington and Moscow to remain equally vulnerable to the other's attack.

Nothing would be guaranteed as the terms of any potential contract were being discussed and guarantees for control sought.