Sentence examples for exerted no control over from inspiring English sources

He repeatedly told the officials of the Islamic Revolution Court that his children had lived in America all of their lives and as such he exerted no control over their strong, typically American independent behavior.

The parties stipulated that during the period that Bendix held its investment, it and ASARCO were unrelated business enterprises each of whose activities had nothing to do with the other, and that, although Bendix held two seats on ASARCO's board, it exerted no control over ASARCO.

Wegner has found that people can often be manipulated into believing that they willed or intended behavior that is in fact caused by another person's manipulation and, conversely, that they exerted no control over movements that were in fact their own as with Ouija boards, with or without a cheating, intentionally directive confederate (Wegner and Wheatley 1999; Wegner 2002).

The funding sources exerted no control over the final content of this manuscript.

Potential transplant recipients, for instance, elicited either revulsion (e.g., potential recipients 'willing' individuals to become organ donors) or altruism (e.g., potential recipients at the mercy of others for the alleviation of their ill-health) because they exerted no control over the organ donation process but had a perceived conflict of interest in wanting donation to proceed.

The Somali government exerts no control over its territorial waters.

10.43am: Pressbof exerts no control over the PCC, Lord Black says, other than promulgating its code and managing its funding.

And the person responsible for allowing this travesty to go on is House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis)., who exerts no control over his members.

China then foresaw "damage to Sino-European relations and eventually to the interests of Europeans".Like the EU's ambassador to China in 1996, who tried to explain that "parliaments in Europe do not take instructions from executives", Norway this year has struggled to convince China that the government exerts no control over the independent Nobel committee.

When I no longer hold his offenses against him, and can also forgive myself, those memories of him no longer exert any control over my moods or my disposition.

But the hellbent characters exert no more control over their crazy behavior than does the author over his spastic style.