Sentence examples for maintaining ironclad control from inspiring English sources

So the expansion begins, with the McDonald brothers maintaining ironclad control over the franchises.

rules that will water down the ironclad control that the industrialized world has held on the organization for the last half century.

Mr. Kim, like the Chinese, initially saw the internet as a threat to his regime's ironclad control over information.

That the lawsuit has been allowed to proceed at all is itself remarkable, given the Communist Party's ironclad control of the court system.

Mr. Barzani's party is expected to carry Dohuk and win seats in neighboring Nineveh, but it does face competition from Gorran in Erbil, where the Barzanis have had ironclad control.

Meanwhile, before he left, there was griping within the house that Mr. Slimane's insistence on ironclad control over every aspect of the brand created roadblocks to growth (there's only so much one man can do in a day).

One Democratic challenger after another conceded defeat late last night, dashing the party's hope of shattering the ironclad control the Republicans have exercised in the Senate for 35 years.

The fact that these reforms are kicking in at the same time that Democrats enjoy ironclad control of the government makes it difficult to draw long-term conclusions about their effectiveness.

The Waltons are the richest family in America thanks to their ironclad control over the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart.

The Walton family has ironclad control over the world's largest retailer: Together, six of the Waltons own nearly 54% of the shares.

In the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s a handful of companies exerted ironclad control over the movie, radio and record businesses; Xeroxes and tape recorders were nonexistent.