Sentence examples for effect control from inspiring English sources

These filters, in effect, control and limit the information that reaches our screens.

Between them the two big parties in effect control the Supreme Electoral Council that oversees Venezuela's elections.

Health and education services are bad, violent youth gangs in effect control sections of major cities and towns, and UN data shows Honduras has the world's highest murder rate, at 90.4 homicides per 100,000 people.

If Mr. Slim acquires 28 percent in KPN, he could gain effect control or wield outsize influence at KPN shareholder meetings.

That nearly matched the weight of the small clan of big, mostly local shareholders that in effect control Telecom Italia with only 22.5% of its shares.

Yet on Friday Network Rail's 41 public members – to whom the board is theoretically accountable – vote on allowing the secretary of state to hire and fire the chair of the track operator, have a greater say over the board and in effect control the appointment of those public members.

Cable also said that, with a majority stake in RBS, the government now in effect controlled a bank "with a balance sheet effectively bigger than the British economy".

Indeed, today all nationally broadcast TV stations are in effect controlled by the government.

Indian betting syndicates in effect controlled games, they were told.

He said that News Corp, in effect controlled by the Murdoch family, now enjoys unprecedented industry power in the UK.

Baugur is now insolvent and its 35% shareholding is in effect controlled by administrators to Landsbanki, another insolvent Icelandic bank.