Sentence examples for in position to control from inspiring English sources

A week ago, the Yankees were in position to control their own fate.

By winning two or three seats this year, an equal number in the elections two years later, they reason that they could be in position to control that body of the Legislature after the 2008 election.

But the tennis association is now in position to control the calendar the week before the United States Open after its recent purchase of the men's hardcourt event on Long Island.

Barnett was in no position to control public spending in the first months.

That is precisely why we must dethrone Saddam Hussein before he is in a position to control the agenda in that volatile, oil-rich region and blackmail the rest of the world.

Never before in the history of advertising has one company been in the position to control prices on up to 90percentt of advertising in a single medium.

There were so few forces here, allied forces, back in '02 that we weren't really in a position to control or influence very much of anything.

If this is going to be the African reality in the near future, it means Africans need to be in a position to control the spread of resistance.

"From the day we finished 7 in 1987," he recalled, "I said I'd like to be in a position to control the destiny of the World Trade Center".

"The charitable entities that will receive the money will now be in a position to control their own fate and pursue their charitable ends in their own way without being dependent in any way on any control by Reader's Digest," Mr. Spitzer said.

But nuclear reactors are the devil, because in our critically unstable world we cannot be sure of remaining in a position to control them.