Sentence examples for controlling the area from inspiring English sources

It is based on the Kurds' controlling the area around the north's oil capital, Kirkuk.

FARC are not the only people interested in controlling the area.

Commanders with the First Infantry Division, charged with controlling the area, say most insurgents there these days are Sunnis.

It's about controlling the area and establishing a physical presence there, without needing to issue so many laws.

The extremism of the forces now controlling the area has made any negotiated resolution to the crisis seem unlikely.

There are fighters everywhere and we don't know who is controlling the area outside the hospital – it seems to change on an hourly basis.

It flourished from 1637 to 1654, when the Dutch controlled the area.

With Camby at his finest, the Knicks actually controlled the area near the basket.

"They are trying to control the area," he said.

WHO had formerly controlled the area and its people?

Like the rebels when they controlled the area, the paramilitaries are now the law and the mediators.