Sentence examples for in almost total control from inspiring English sources

"When I'm making a Hong Kong film, I'm in almost total control," Mr. Chan said.

Hearts were in almost total control and Hibernian's ineptitude was summed up in the 31st minute.

Sharapova was in almost total control during the second set and, as well as Jankovic played against Williams, it is difficult to imagine her withstanding Sharapova in this form.

Even during this first murder of Joseph Otero (38), his wife Julie (34) and their two children Josephine, aged eleven and her seven-year-old brother Joey, he was in almost total control of the crime scene.

On this August night, however, the next few hours would see IS finally expelled from the city, and the YPG in almost total control of their first provincial capital in Syria.

As the oligarchs started ruthlessly hoovering up the wealth of Russia's rich natural resources, they also succeeded in exerting almost total control over President Boris Yeltsin, then sinking into the final stages of alcoholism and heart disease.

By the time he was 40, having propelled himself Horatio Alger-fromion from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to shrewd investor in growth industries, Carnegie had almost total control of steel production in western Pennsylvania, and he spent the next 25 years squeezing every penny he could out of his mills.

Still angered over legislative elections last May in which a disputed vote-counting method gave Mr. Aristide's Lavalas Party almost total control in the Senate, all major opposition parties are boycotting this weekend's presidential contest.

The other looks backward, to most of the 20th century, when the PRI exerted almost total control in Mexico.Mr Peña's aides insist that his "absolute priority" from now on is successful implementation of the reforms, such as ending a 75-year ban on foreign investment in the oil industry and strengthening competition in Mexico's telecoms industry.

In Pakistan, the army exercises almost total control.

Lutz, the first major car company executive to call for increased gas taxes, thus becomes the last of the real car guys to leave a US carmaker; bean-counters like Rick Wagoner and Chrysler's Bob Nardelli now have almost total control in Detroit.