Sentence examples for he obtained control from inspiring English sources

He obtained control of the Roman army in 475 and made his own son Romulus, nicknamed Augustulus, the last Western Roman emperor.

In May he obtained control of the companies trading with China and the East Indies.

But people close to Axel Springer say executives there are much more worried about Mr. Murdoch than about Mr. Kirch: If Mr. Murdoch obtained control of Kirch, he would also acquire Kirch's big stake in Axel Springer and, they said, might try to use newspapers like Bild as a mouthpiece for his conservative views.

Though constantly thwarted by the Christian Souliots, whom he finally subdued in 1803, Ali obtained control of the Gulf of Arta and took the ports of Butrinto, Preveza, and Vonitsa.

But neither he nor Green could understand how these distant heirs had legally obtained control of the archive.

The president of world chess's governing body is linked to a network of secret offshore companies that have obtained control of the lucrative commercial rights to the game since he took office, the Panama Papers cache of leaked documents reveal.

The Mohegan obtained control of Pequot lands.

It obtained control and authority over A. Q . Khans laboratory two years before Khan was stopped.

In 1950 O'Malley obtained control of 67 percent of the team's stock and was made president.

Brookfield disagreed, saying it obtained control over commercial development at Battery Park City in the 1980's with the development of the World Financial Center, a complex of four large office towers that are home to American Express, Merrill Lynch and other companies.

Answer: January 1997, when Panama awarded concessions to a Chinese company to operate port facilities on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts at both ends of the Panama Canal, just after having obtained control of it from the US.