Sentence examples for eager to control from inspiring English sources

Kurds and Arabs alike are eager to control the area if the government falls.

Both sides are eager to control the strategic district, which is predominantly inhabited by minority Kurds.

Continuously inhabited since the fourth millennium BC, the city has survived earthquakes, fires and conquerors eager to control its well-watered oases and lucrative trade routes.

They've managed to maintain their position even faced with record companies eager to control what they do and how they sound.

Asbos, tags, and mosquito alarms were all suggestions mooted or implemented by a government eager to control its citizens using authoritarian, slap-dash measures.

Pakistan, eager to control the process and assure that any political agreement would not be not at its expense, welcomed this format.

But no one is eager to see the controls lifted too soon.

The results of the polls will be welcome news to partisans eager to see Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives.

In fairness, though, alarms should have gone off earlier, when so many people seemed eager to see generals exercise control over an elected President.

For more than 50 years, physicists have been eager to achieve controlled fusion, an elusive goal that could potentially offer a boundless and inexpensive source of energy.

While Chinese investors are eager to take controlling stakes in U.S. companies, Americans are more likely to settle for joint ventures or minority ownership in Chinese businesses because of government restrictions on foreign investment.