Sentence examples for controlling to from inspiring English sources

For all their brash vulgarity, both Denise and Dina are too timid, or controlling, to cut loose.

The other enduring cliché about Hitchcock was that he was sadistic and controlling to his leading ladies.

At work, her colleagues inflict a barrage of physical and verbal abuse under the guise of banter, while at home her father is controlling to the point of suffocation.

According to corporatist theory, workers and employers would be organized into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and controlling to a large extent the persons and activities within their jurisdiction.

Dr Rebecca Viney, associate dean at the NHS London Deanery, explains that it is, "a mindset change that is needed for both doctors and patients, moving away from the medical model which was all knowing and all controlling to a model where people are resourceful architects of their own health.

As the day wore on, and the team in the Airstream rejected numerous entreaties from the near-frantic public relations people guarding us outside, the spectacle hidden in plain sight started to seem like a metaphor for what one might expect of the campaign to come — controlling to a fault, a criticism that has hurt Mr. Cuomo in the past.

However, the dashboard for controlling to-dos and requests wasn't laid out as well as I'd hoped, and frankly, those features just added an extra layer of complexity to the process of sorting through email.

● Capital controls to reduce investors' returns.

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Ground control to Major Pierre!

Ground control to Major Tongs.