Chávez seized Pdvsa not so it would produce more but so he could directly control the money.
"We do not directly control the number of inmates that enter into our prison system," wrote Mr. Ashcroft.
The T.C.P.A. standard would not directly control what software a user could run on a personal computer.
He describes bring able to directly control the robotic arm as like "an out-of-body experience".
Communist Party leaders have also introduced a "monastic management" plan to more directly control religious life.
These allow the utility to directly control appliances and heating and cooling systems in the customer's home during times of peak demand.
That's because the banks do not directly control most of the loans that require restructuring; rather, the loans have been parceled out in pieces to various investors.
In November, the company announced that it would no longer directly control the feature, instead relying on alerts of incidents from a "third-party source".
BEIJING — Whether it is religion, environmentalism or nonprofit charities, the Chinese government has always been wary of any organized activity it cannot directly control.
Describing the state's take of oil revenue as "crumbs", he announced that the government, rather than foreign companies, should directly control the industry.
Orthodox rabbinic officials directly control marriage, divorce, and burial; indirectly, by controlling conversion, they determine important parts of immigration and residency law.
