Sentence examples for large measure of control from inspiring English sources

The corrupt clientist system in which financial oligarchs had a large measure of control over Greek politics was largely the creation of the New Democracy and Pasok parties that lost so heavily in the election.

For much of the time, certainly during 1965, Johnson retained a large measure of control over his immense political skills.

And they are made more powerful by his decision to give up a large measure of control over the framing of the pictures by taking them on the sly, the shutter control snaked down his right sleeve.

He says press officers from the police, hospitals, schools, businesses and other "content segments" should be invited to provide "the majority" of stories "usually by self-service", and be given "a large measure of control … as trust is developed".

However, the British troops, who are more hands-off than their American counterparts, are increasingly being accused of allowing militias of the governing Shiite religious parties to infiltrate security forces and seize a large measure of control.

In the empire, as elsewhere, the trend in ecclesiastical politics was toward state churches (Landeskirchen), in which governments, using "reform" as a pretext, gradually gained, while church authorities lost, a large measure of control over clerical properties, personnel, and functions.

If the constitutional provisions on which appellants rely give them the substantive rights they urge, other provisions qualify those rights in important ways by vesting large measures of control in the political subdivisions of the Government and the state.

It isn't a surprise that a director should endure a large measure of supervisory control on a production that costs two hundred million dollars, as "Fantastic Four" did.

One of the most notable long-term solutions has been that of Switzerland, where the three major ethnic groups are concentrated in separate cantons, each enjoying a large measure of local control within a democratic federation.

Delegates to the Congress are tipped to advocate a stronger market economy (despite a large measure of state control) and smarter operations by state-run companies that may still not run on a for-profit model.

Without emergency measures, N.Y.C. would have to default on its obligations for the first time in history Gov. Carey proposed a partial-receivership plan which would require the surrender of a large measure of local financial control to Municipal Assistance Corp. ("Big Mac"), a new state agency.