Sentence examples for exert total control over from inspiring English sources

Flash Seats allows sports teams to exert total control over who fills their seats, and to fight back against sites like Craigslist, eBay, TicketsNow and StubHub, which have transformed the shady world of ticket scalping into a $3-billion-a-year 3-billion-a-year 3-billion-a-year 3-billion-a-year business

Instead the band locked everyone out and wrote 2112, an album whose entire first side was taken up by a concept piece about a brutally dystopian future in which a group of elite priests exert total control over the meek and mediocre: excellence and individualism have been traded in for a numb, cowardly security.

In years of observation, the official said, Americans have seen that the camp's leaders "exert total control over the lives of Ashraf's residents, much like we would see in a totalitarian cult," requiring fawning devotion to the M.E.K.'s leaders, Maryam Rajavi, who lives in France, and her husband, Massoud, whose whereabouts are unknown.

But the prosecution said Philpott sought to exert total control over her "almost from the outset".

Was it an exercise by Mrs Clinton to exert total control over her correspondence and behaviour, and shield it from prying eyes?

Exert total control over food and beverage choices as soon as the vacation is over.

There we witnessed a system that was exerting total control over its citizens.

Although Plahotniuc exerts total control over parliament, law enforcement and the courts, he has no interest in running for office.

In doing so he is branching into the film industry in a way few hip-hop executives and personalities have been able to do, by exerting total control over the project.

Much of the policy driven by food allergies -- the precautions that schools are required to take, the scrutiny to which manufacturers are now subjecting themselves -- has been based on the somewhat quixotic goal of exerting total control over a given environment.

Baril told me that the approach of most executives to collaboration has much in common with the attitudes of emperors of old: Tactical moves to demonstrate that though they are stronger, they are also magnanimous; but when faced with real pressure, they return quickly to exerting total control over relationships.