Sentence examples for has outright control from inspiring English sources

Of these, Labour has outright control of 28, the Conservatives four, Lib Dems one and 12 authorities are under no overall control.

This might be a cause for worry, except that proportional representation, in Scotland's four-party politics, makes it unlikely that any one party will have outright control.

When Barack Obama took office Democrats controlled the White House, both houses of Congress and had outright control (both houses of the state legislature and the governorship) of 27 states.

It has outright lied," she said.

Without that support, the Barclays would have gained outright control of the company.

In the fund's annual report, published at the end of September, it announced it had taken outright control of Russian storage and records management business OSG.

"But we don't have outright fights.

Today, four states have outright bans.

Codey was the only acting governor during this time, as the 2003 legislative elections had given the Democrats outright control of the state senate.

But the Scottish parliament will be elected by proportional representation, and in Scotland's four-party politics not even the Labour Party has enough support to win outright control.

Jack Ma, Alibaba's flamboyant boss, for his part, has been dreaming of winning outright control of the firm he founded from Yahoo! and Softbank, a Japanese firm that controls about 30% of Alibaba.