Sentence examples for demand control over from inspiring English sources

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The Palestinians demand control over East Jerusalem, including the Old City, as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

They demand control over our behaviour, our speech, our writing, our thoughts, whether we are on the sites of their authority, or elsewhere.

Yet still we dance the dance, pretending that sending UK taxpayers' cash overseas to children who may or may not exist is the civilised way to behave, convincing ourselves that countries which demand control over their own borders are, well, just a bit gauche.

Even if we demand control over death by choosing to take it into our own hands, there are still no guarantees: the method we choose to hasten death might fail, we might change our minds at the last minute, or we might even die by some other cause before the date of our planned death.

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Orbán's government demanded control over how the money is spent.

Following his appointment in October 1962, he demanded control over squad selection, which previously had been left up to committees.

In May last year, the hospital was attacked by Hizb Islam, who demanded control over the facility on the grounds that, as a woman, Abdi had to work under their authority.

"The church introduced the concept of 'child conceived' to the common consciousness, which demands control over women, their lives and their sexuality.

Executives at the bank made it clear that ministers demanded control over the size of bonus payouts as the price of the bailout.

Some of these women may be rebels, demanding control over their bodies and recognition within a Western culture whose social values they reject.

Two peoples cannot reconcile when one demands control over the other, when one refuses to treat the other as a partner in peace, when one uses the logic of power rather than the power of logic.

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