Sentence examples for life under control from inspiring English sources

"I think I took my life under control," Malisse said.

Then, when she "finally had my life under control", her phone rang.

After he took the job at Cornell, de Man got his life under control.

Ms. Jamison, 49, the publisher of Seventeen magazine at the Hearst Corporation in New York and a divorced mother of two, likes to have life under control.

According to Moretti, "fillers function very much like the good manners so important in Austen: they are both mechanisms designed to keep the 'narrativity' of life under control – to give a regularity, a 'style' to existence".

Postcards from the Edge (1990), adapted by Carrie Fisher from her acerbic semiautobiographical novel, starred Streep as an addicted actress who has to endure first drug rehabilitation and then probation with her alcoholic, domineering mother (Shirley MacLaine) before finally getting her life under control.

Mutations of the endogenous p53 gene also had sex-specific effects on life span under control and stress conditions: null mutation of p53 increased life span in females, and had smaller, more variable effects in males.

Here is a man, we sense, whose life is under control.

"Now I feel he's completely quieted down, his life is under control, and he can't wait to get married.

As someone who stepped out of the corporate world to get my career and family life back under control by starting my own business on my own terms, I certainly wasn't.

"The whole point of being organized is to relieve stress by bringing your life back under control.