Sentence examples for grab control over from inspiring English sources

This is Ukrainian territory and Russia wants to grab control over Crimea.

The torrent of unproved accusations gave Mr. Zuma and his allies enough ammunition to grab control over another prize — the state coffers in the National Treasury.

Then parents turn around and try to grab control over circumstances that don't readily yield to it, responding to children's setbacks or shortcomings with insistences on diagnoses, accommodations, remedies.

He may talk of "grabbing"  sexual organs, but YOU have created laws that legally grab control over women's bodies.

The publishers then "combined forces to grab control over price," she wrote, referring to five of the "Big Six" publishers -- Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Hachette.

As in other areas of Afghanistan, the victorious anti-Taliban forces seemed less interested in arresting top Taliban leaders than in grabbing control over the region.

Whatever motivates you to grab control can be helpful, as long as over-emphasis on body image doesn't go overboard.

Il Fatto Quotidiano, a newspaper, printed documents showing that the pope had taken sides against Cardinal Bertone over his attempt to grab control of a powerful institute in Milan.

By contrast, another engineer had told the researchers that his ''team leader has poor emotional control.'' He added: ''He panics over small issues and keeps trying to grab control.

They are also more deeply concerned about how powerful people fight to grab control of the state and otherwise compete to exert influence over the rest of society (a left-wing perspective).

The bill is likely to insist on central clearing for more over-the-counter derivatives and propose setting up a body to grab control of and wind-down financial companies that show signs of breeding systemic failure.