Sentence examples for denying control from inspiring English sources

America's military strategy in the Persian Gulf has always been as much about denying control of oil to enemies as assuring the flow of oil to the West.

Almost as important as exercising sovereignty is denying control to adversaries, some long-hated.

Denied control of their assets, landlords let splendid buildings crumble.

If you are denied control over your own body then you are denied so many other controls over your life.

When we are denied control of the end of our lives, we are denied autonomy.' The ability to make choices is one of the distinctive and defining features of what it is to be a human being.

The longtime mayor of Boston, James Michael Curley, was denied control over federal spending because, several historians have written, he did not turn out numbers for Roosevelt as Hague and other allies did.

Indigenous peoples are being denied control over their communities and customary laws, and deprived of representative political institutions, and remain under the reign of a paternalistic, racially interventionist, centrist white state.

Albertans already felt that all the big banking and political decisions were made in the east, and to be denied control of natural resources was a blow, not rectified until 1930.

The same response occurs in the case of widowhood, especially if the inheritance system denies control of the land to women and she needs to be looking after her children.

But, women of all races are damaged when they are denied control over their reproductive functions.

· Women: If you are denied control over your body, you are not free.