Sentence examples for establish their control over 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.

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

As the Roosevelt forces more and more established their control over the convention's machinery the bitterness of Mr. smith, Mayor Hague and others grew.

Two months after the Taliban were routed in western Afghanistan, soldiers and their leaders are far more concerned with establishing their control over territory and important roads than with hunting down remnants of the toppled government.

The Magyars (Hungarians) conquered the area at the end of the 9th century and firmly established their control over it in 1003 when their king Stephen I, according to legend, defeated the native prince Gyula.

Theow Tow, who deftly negotiated the consignment of the various parts of the Sackler collection sold at Christie's and raised Christie's market share to 73 percent from 25 percent in 1986, largely through his many connections in China, is amazed at the speed with which the Chinese have established their control over the market.