Sentence examples for had been controlled for from inspiring English sources

In 1993, Ms. Mlynarczyk, a Republican, ran for mayor of New Britain, Conn., even though the city had been controlled for decades by Democrats and its voters had never elected a woman to that post.

The teamsters' union appointed a trustee last year to administer Local 813 following allegations by Federal prosecutors that the local had been controlled for decades by the Gambino family.

See articleIn Guatemala, seven prisoners died when 3,000 troops and police stormed a prison that had been controlled for more than a decade by inmates, some of whom produced drugs and ran businesses inside the jail.Venezuela lodged a diplomatic protest after its foreign minister was briefly detained while about to catch a flight from Kennedy airport in New York.

Student gender and socioeconomic status (SES) were introduced to determine to what extent, if any, these variables were associated with the accuracy of the self-assessments once students' attitudes toward reading had been controlled for.

Students who approached a question using a strategy that had been controlled for a particular question (a strategy not incorporated as a distracter) could not use that strategy to arrive at an answer.

Once stage had been controlled for, CEA was not a predictor of survival.

Bertelsmann has been controlled for decades by the Mohn family and by a family-controlled non-profit foundation.

The islands have been controlled for decades by the Soviet Union and then Russia.

Sales practices have been controlled for over a century; early regulations were largely concerned with peddlers and hawkers.

The crisis that began in Greece has been controlled for now, but much of Europe, including France, is in recession.

The weather has been controlled for decades by use of toxic aerosols sprayed from planes, in conjunction with ionospheric heaters (HAARP).