Sentence examples for establish control over the from inspiring English sources

The state is commandeering every resource to establish control over the country.

It is necessary to establish control over the work of every official.

He also reformed the laws regulating communications and content in order to establish control over the media.

The first Punic war was fought to establish control over the strategic islands of Corsica and Sicily.

"Throwing her into that job is either a joke made in the face of the people, or a very calculated plan to establish control over the port authority.

The attack will test Mr. Morsi's ability to establish control over the lawless Sinai, and it is also a test of his approach toward Israel.

By planting the Russian flag in Grozny, the Russian military will re-establish control over the scene of some of its greatest humiliations during the 1994-1996 war.

A western official in Kabul said a spate of arrests by Pakistani security forces of senior Taliban officials suggests Pakistan's intelligence agencies are trying to "re-establish control over the process".

The government of Congo has been struggling to re-establish control over the eastern part of the country since a 1998-2003 wandand its accompanying ills killed 5.4 million people.

The militants, he said, would not be able to re-establish control over the area with the army there, but they could use the hit-and-run tactics to keep it off balance.

Putin and Russia have called for an immediate ceasefire in the region, and for the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, to negotiate with the pro-Russia leaders in the east, but Kiev has branded them "terrorists" and wants to re-establish control over the areas rather than let a de facto independent statelet spring up.