The government, he said, should control the number of visitors.
"We want to control the number of onshore windfarms," he said.
But they are less confident that he can control the number of surgeries.
For women, the ability to control the number and spacing of your children is fundamental.
Its role seems to be to control the number of synapses, or connections between brain cells.
"We do not directly control the number of inmates that enter into our prison system," wrote Mr. Ashcroft.
"The things that control the number of cyclones are other things like the wind speeds at different levels in the atmosphere," he said.
Finding it difficult to control the number of ads through regulation, the city took the unprecedented step of banning them altogether.
Like it or not, according to this argument, the Constitution limits our ability to control the number and kinds of guns in private hands.
A city councilman has proposed a ban on feeding pigeons as a way to control the number of them in New York.
But they control the number of seats, and the flights, on which free tickets are available, and generally adjust the supply depending on the time of year.
