Even with her health problems, Ms. Alonso maintains firm control over the company.
The PAP maintained firm control of Parliament through a succession of elections.
He was the last Yuan ruler to maintain firm control over China, but he never exercised real power over Mongol territories in Russia and the Middle East.
But, as events rush toward a bloody resolution, Bernstein maintains firm control of his plot, and painstakingly re-creates the historical landscape in which an often reluctant Tausk undertakes his counter-revolutionary mission.
Mr. Kotik maintained firm control over the performance, which is to say that he brought a sense of drama to the on-the-spot decisions that Brown left to performers, and the ensemble responded with an involving vibrancy.
The United States, it said, "must maintain firm control of the West's nuclear strike force, if only because a feasible alternative, satisfying both military and political requirements, has not emerged".
"To the extent that State maintains firm control over Usaid, it can make it difficult for any agency to revitalize itself," said Connie Veillette, director of the program for rethinking foreign assistance at the Center for Global Development, an independent research group.
Turmoil at a leading newspaper is posing an early challenge for the new Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, pitting pent-up demand for change against the Communist Party's desire to maintain firm control.
China's totalitarian government may have relaxed its control of the means of production, but it has maintained firm control of the means of reproduction, and continues to intrude into the most intimate aspects of an individual's life, stunting relationships, destroying traditional family life and spreading fear.
MOSCOW — The longtime aide tapped by Vladimir V. Putin to be his successor as president of Russia declared Tuesday that he wanted Mr. Putin to be his prime minister, offering the clearest indication yet of how Mr. Putin plans to maintain firm control over the Kremlin after his term ends next spring.
