Sentence examples for grabbing control over from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

You now have armed gangs or Shiite clerics grabbing control all over the country.

Micro Focus is grabbing control of a business bigger than itself.

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.