Sentence examples for in control of something from inspiring English sources

Humans have an innate need to feel "in control" of something.

It makes them feel they are in control of something.

"Filmmaking," he said, "can give me the delusion that I'm in control of something".

"It's a really odd journey, from being completely in control of something that you've created to something that is utterly free," she said.

I have had an eating disorder for a long time now, and I think it is because I wanted to be in control of something.

He added that the officials who have criticized his approach to foreign affairs "usually get pretty uncomfortable when they're not in control of something and it doesn't go the way they want".

He insists Gribkowsky threatened to "shake him down" over his family's tax affairs and to falsely accuse him of tax evasion by suggesting Mr Ecclestone was in control of Bambino, something he strongly denies.

I think it's something about being in control of our own destiny – something we've never really had before".

All of us know nothing, but they know three weeks more stuff, and in their effort to have control of something in their unraveling lives, they haze us with questions, testing how much we've read and how prepared we are.

If you're starting to feel more in control of the teasing, say something that distracts from the teasing ("I hear it's gonna me a good game tonight")., make the teaser sound like a broken record and shrug or give a little smile with your statement ("Enough already")., or state what's happening as you raise your eyebrows or purse your lips ("You're kicking my desk").

What is changing are the large groups that visit almost every day from China, one of the few countries in the world still under the control of something calling itself a Communist Party.