Sentence examples for establish their control from inspiring English sources

It was like a sauna in there, but they refused to make it any cooler.' The terrorists moved quickly to establish their control over the captives.

Two of these, the Ndwandwe and the Zulu, located to the south of the new Ngwane homeland, constituted a serious threat to the Dlamini, who strove to establish their control over the clans among whom they had settled.

Eight more years of civil strife, complicated by Brazilian and Argentinian interference, followed Oribe's death before the Colorados were finally able to establish their control, ruling almost continuously for nearly a century thereafter.

As Aleksandr Nekrich and Mikhail Heller wrote in their revisionist history of the Soviet Union, "Utopia in Power," "the victors take possession of the past, establish their control over the collective memory". Aileen M. Kelly, the distinguished British intellectual historian of Russian political thought, cites this comment in her own examination of Russia's past.

Both as part of their ideological commitment to liberal individualism and as a means of increasing the power of their new states, leaders in the postindependence years tried to establish their control over the formidable colonial institutions of the Roman Catholic Church and the military.

The rebels moved quickly to establish their control over the capital, seizing military installations - among them, the training school in Tripoli for women army officers.

There is a growing recognition that Macedonia may soon find the rebels partly disarmed, the Macedonian authorities trying to re-establish their control over areas formerly held by the rebels, and NATO's soldiers gone.

The overwhelming probability therefore is that existing U.S. strategy will lead to a situation in which, once American troops withdraw from an active ground role, the Taliban will re-establish their control of the countryside and besiege the southern and eastern cities, which will be defended by a mixture of the Afghan National Army on the ground and U.S. firepower in the air.

The Moghuls established their control in the sixteenth century.

The western powers refused; they had their colonies and had established their control over the world's natural resources.

Fabio Borini attempted to mirror Ritchie's volley on the hour but it flew over and as the clock ticked by Bournemouth re-established their control.