Sentence examples for firmly control from inspiring English sources

What he didn't anticipate was that Republicans would firmly control both chambers of Congress when the time came to start raising funds.

Traditional agents still firmly control the M.L.S., which allows all participating brokers, including Redfin, to view almost every home for sale in a particular area, even those being offered through competitors' agencies.

Dean inherited a party so dispirited after its defeat in 2004 that few other Democrats of note expressed the least interest in running it; the party he relinquishes this January, making way for whomever Obama chooses to succeed him, will firmly control all three power centers in Washington, brandishing a decisive governing mandate for the first time since 1992.

As is common in Russian network governance, state-based actors firmly control the networks through a variety of mechanisms.

She had the good fortune of becoming governor at a time when Democrats firmly control the legislature.

Mr. Andriessen's music is somewhat more firmly controlled.

In their accounts, the witnesses said Mr. Anderson had firmly controlled every detail of the prosecution.

But Mr Mugabe firmly controls the Senate and under the present constitution can rule by decree.

It also requires that the emission of breath be more firmly controlled.

The way the story is told confirms the idea that it is firmly controlled by beliefs and meanings.

To nobody's surprise, in an island firmly controlled by the ruling Nationalists, Mr. Chen lost the case.