Sentence examples for quest to control from inspiring English sources

The Tigers have taken two crucial army bases since April 22 in their quest to control the northern Jaffna Peninsula.

If Welch symbolized the dangers of an unfettered Internet, then Aghdam reminds us that the quest to control it is scarcely less fraught.

Another factor was the quest to control Congo's unusually rich endowment of minerals and farmland, especially here in North Kivu Province.

Pakistan's military establishment, in contrast, likely believes that it will have a freer hand in its quest to control Afghanistan's future.

Mr. Bloomberg is the only one who can sign off on a new contract, and he appears to be using that power as leverage in his quest to control the school system.

For self-defense some of these African communities formed larger groupings who competed against each other in their quest to control trade routes going south to the Cape and east to present-day Mozambique.

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General Óscar Naranjo, the police commander, says the bands are simply the latest iteration of the drug trade in Colombia, and their quest for territory an effort to control smuggling routes or take back mafia land expropriated by the government.

Mr. Maltese, who has represented the 15th District since 1988, has been deemed vulnerable by Senate Democratic leaders in their quest to regain control of the Senate, which the Republicans hold by a one-seat majority.

And, in most cases you will be able to control what quests the group will do, allowing you to avoid repeating quests that you have already done.

While Republicans continued to expand the battleground in the House, growing increasingly confident in their quest to win control of at least one chamber of Congress, Senate Republicans sought to contain expectations even though they will end the year in a much stronger position than they could have imagined two years after Mr. Obama entered the White House on a wave of popularity and optimism.