Sentence examples for firmly controls from inspiring English sources

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

Mrs. Megawati firmly controls the party, which decided at a recent congress that she alone would name its presidential nominee.

And Speaker Silver, who firmly controls his membership, opposes initiatives and referendums as antidemocratic devices that usurp the public's voting rights.

Until now, Mr. Blagojevich, a two-term Democrat whose party firmly controls both chambers of the legislature, had not come here since his arrest Dec. 9 on corruption charges, including an accusation that he schemed to sell the United States Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama, who also once worked in these marbled halls.

Qxa4 [After 19...Rxf2 Timman prepared 20.Rf1 Rxf1+ 21.Rxf1 Rxf1+ 22.Kxf1 Qxand23.Qe7 and the black position is collapsing.] 20.Qc1 Qb5 21.Rxandand Timman thought white had achieved an ideal position in the Winawer variation: the weak a-pawn disappeared from the board, White firmly controls the central squares and black's bishop has no play.

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.

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.

When the Democrats firmly controlled Congress, some in the Republican minority likened their situation to working on a plantation.