Sentence examples for exercising tight control over from inspiring English sources

Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay painstakingly built their record-setting careers and untainted reputations by resisting shortcuts and exercising tight control over who gained entrance to their inner circles.

(A Chinese official once described the Confucius Institutes as "an important part of China's overseas propaganda set-up"). Beijing has also been exercising tight control over the large population of Chinese students in the United States, deploying them to lobby for Chinese interests on campus.

Most of these countries exercised tight control over pharmaceutical prices and pharmacists' margins.

He led the group that organizes the Puerto Rican Day Parade and exercised tight control over its finances.

If the government was able to continue, he said, it would exercise tight control over public finances and avoid the deficit running over 3%.

Nazarbayev has exercised tight control over the country since the Soviet days of 1989, when he was head of the Communist Party.

This was very different from the traditional approach mobile phone carriers in the United States have typically exercised tight control over which software can be run on their devices.

In high schools and elementary schools, teachers try to exercise tight control over backchannels, often reviewing a transcript after class for inappropriate remarks.

Mrs. Mazurier also alleged in her complaint that her husband physically abused her and once exercised tight control over her movements and finances.

But the absence is notable because racial profiling was an explosive political issue, and New Jersey's governors have traditionally exercised tight control over the state bureaucracy, including the State Police.

She brought back licences in order to exercise tight control over the brand image and booked the megastars for the brand's campaigns – from Kate Moss to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.