He's beginning to regain a semblance of control over this.
Focus on how to maintain some semblance of control over data about your customers and develop executable plausible provocations from that data.
Desperate to regain a semblance of control over the north Caucasus, the Kremlin recently appointed Alexander Khloponin, an ambitious former businessman and governor of a Siberian region, as an envoy to the newly formed administrative district of the north Caucasus.
Iraqi and American officials have made assurances throughout that Mr. Maliki's current government continues to function, that the security forces have a semblance of control over the violence ravaging the country.
This week, they will celebrate the new year having come roaring back to regain the House, and yet they have no semblance of control over the direction of their party and the conservative activists who seem to be steering it.
It's unlike being caught in a firefight, where you can dodge and weave and think that you have some semblance of control over your fate — choosing where to stand, behind what kind of a structure and with whom.
Hannibal would hate for the FBI, or anyone for that matter, to get the better of him, but by surrendering he maintains some semblance of control over his fate.
And there is Sophie herself, who pats fancy cream ("$25 for four ounces") on her face to gain some semblance of control over a body that seems intent on betraying her by breaking down.
"Who does the baby hate?" "Why is everyone screaming, now?" Mothers try to gain some semblance of control over our lives, even as our worries about mortality — ours, our child's, some random sad car-cooked baby we hear about on the news — ratchet ever higher.
They reason that if the Japanese are pushed to anger any further, they may abandon all pretence of abiding by the IWC, and thus we (the largely western nations devoted to anti-whaling) will lose all semblance of control over the issue.
