Sentence examples for lasting control over from inspiring English sources

The point of the project, Steingrebe says, is to give families lasting control over their destiny.

Claims and counterclaims of victory show that neither side gained effective and lasting control over the doab, and the struggle extended eventually into the Konkan and Andhra regions.

September is a great month to hear three of the best of them, in an array of concerts which reveals Zorn's light but lasting control over the venue's programming.

Although the opposition has yet to gain lasting control over any significant city, Mr. Heydemann said that certain areas had fallen outside government control to the point that local leaders and councils had emerged as alternatives with which to carry on negotiations.

Murray's campaign put an end to any chance of Edward III having full lasting control over the south of Scotland and Edward's failure in the six-month siege of Dunbar Castle confirmed this.

Recently, epigenetic mechanisms, which exert lasting control over gene expression without altering the gene's nucleotide sequence, have been considered as mediators of stable changes in brain function.

Even though it could be extended for any period through September 2019, upon expiration, President Obama has agreed to let the Department of Commerce hand full control over the IANA functions to ICANN, effectively ceding the last control that the U.S. has over the Internet to an ambitious non-profit organization that will have no ties to the U.S. Government.

No wonder it's in comment sections and on Twitter where this flaccid, gassy, swearing-not-swearing tends to take place: this is where the people who have had every last vestige of control over their own lives go to whinge in half-hearted tedium about the world that's killing us all.

Dan Wetzel writes on Yahoo.com that it felt like Sandusky exercising the one last bit of control over their lives that he could manage.

We are able to say to a son or daughter, "Yes, you are an adult now, but I pay your bills and so you must" — fill in the blank — "or I will reduce my support". The bills we pay are our last measure of control over young people who may not yet be ready to take control of their own lives, and our wielding of the power of the purse is a measure of our love.

Did his rebellion against Naomi break the last of her control over him, or is her brainwashing a lingering problem for him?