Sentence examples for do something to control from inspiring English sources

I felt I could do something to control the outcome.

"If production costs are going up [owing to the weak pound] do you do something to control costs such as decreasing your quality?" said Tooke.

They should do something to control the price, or to put in a certain amount of money so that the drugs become cheaper.

"You do need to do something to control the growth of the deer population," Mr. Lhota, the former Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief who is running for mayor, said at the Annadale Diner, according to The Staten Island Advance.

"These people on this flight said, 'We're going to take control, we're going to try to do something to control our destiny.' And by doing that they allowed us not to have to make that bad decision to shoot.

Shooting the gulls "is surely not the most pleasant measure, but it's necessary to do something to control a situation that has been growing after many years of inaction," Maza said.

"There will be a fig leaf, so people can say we are doing something to control costs," he said.

Rather than doing something to control the situation -- by getting into the driver's seat -- they operate the car as passengers.

As a town, "we had to do something to take control of our destiny," said Anthony S. Gwiazdowski Jr., a Republican who became mayor on Jan . 1

business has got bogged down in of late years, & both are determined to do something to cut down & control it.

"When he's dominating the match, he's really, really dangerous, so you need to do something to not let him control," Safin said.