Sentence examples for exerted full control from inspiring English sources

China says Tibet has been part of its territory for centuries, but Beijing has exerted full control only since 1950, when Communist troops invaded the region.

But his success at Lachasse left him chafing at the fact that the firm was not his, and he could therefore never exert full control.

And while Sprint has long been the biggest stakeholder in Clearwire, it hasn't been able to exert full control over one of its most important partners.

Critics say Africa's failure to protect its ocean is political, the definition of a continent too weak to exert full control over its resources.

Whenever they have been asked to approve a sewage treatment plant in the past, each side has held out for a site where it can exert full control.

Regional experts say that Qatar's principal security concern is that Iran may one day try to exert full control over the field.

But planning here is an instrument of policy, a policy in which Israel maintains a Jewish demographic majority in Jerusalem and seeks to exert full control over the city it regards as its united, eternal capital.

Despite more than $100 billion in aid and the continuous presence of American troops in the country, the Western-backed Afghan government has struggled to exert full control over its territory, its forces even losing control of a major city twice.

Even if General Musharraf is sincere about wanting to crack down on the groups, it is not clear whether he can exert full control over them or whether the militants will continue to receive the backing of parts of Pakistan's intelligence service who hold the Kashmiri cause dear.

He had tried to exert full control over Iridium's loose confederation of marketing partners, publicly sniping at the competence of its regional distributors.

Ministers say the decision to leave the EU, which will bring an end to current free movement rules, will enable the UK to exert full control over its borders.