Sentence examples for country is controlled from inspiring English sources
"Our country is controlled by oligarchs and we're like a plantation," she alleged.
"People rose in the Arab Spring and now it is horrible – one-third of my country is controlled by Isis.
The flow of power produced in the western third of the country is controlled by 31 centers like the one here.
The rest of the country is controlled by warlords who, as the Americans discovered in 1993, are difficult to deal with.
Snow Crash is set in a dystopian US of the near future, where government has broken down and the country is controlled by competing corporate entities, each with its own territory.
Most of the country is controlled by two armed, radical Islamist factions, al-Shabab (the Youth) and Hizbul Islam (Party of Islam), which regularly battle forces loyal to the government.
The currency is not fully convertible, so capital flows in and out of the country are controlled.
Although Koreans generally bristle at reminders of the many years their country was controlled by or under the sway of foreigners, American evangelists who came here in the late 1800s are remembered for their contributions.
It centres on a retired investigator trying to solve the 1974 rape and murder of a woman, and highlights the turbulent nature of Argentina in the 1970s, a period in which the country was controlled mainly by military dictatorships.
Speaking in Spain on Sunday, Mr. Calderón said Mexico was nowhere near as threatened by drug interests as Colombia was when presidential candidates were killed and vast swaths of the country were controlled by the cartels.
