Sentence examples for slim control from inspiring English sources

But he now settled for 49.5percentt, giving Vodafone slim control.

Democrats expanded their slim control of the Senate to a solid majority on Tuesday when they picked up at least five seats, ousting Republican incumbents in New Hampshire and North Carolina and capturing seats in Virginia, Colorado and New Mexico left vacant by Republican retirements.

Although Slim controls hundreds of companies, he doesn't have a corporate headquarters; typically, the chief executive of each company remains near the sales force or the factory floor.

It is also part of his drive to transform Telefonos de Mexico, the formerly state-owned phone company Mr. Slim controls and which is his flagship business, into a fast-paced, Web-savvy multinational giant.

Asked whether Ora.tv would create videos specifically for the Am ca M? wireless networks that Mr. Slim controls, Mr. Housman said, "That's never been the driver in our conversations about this business".

Sony's new generation of eReaders seem to have more than a few design cues from the Xperia line of handsets: the T1 features a row of super-slim control buttons and a gently curving bottom edge.

The slim remote control has a bright backlighted screen that shows what track you're playing and allows you to browse your collection.

Telmex's headquarters, for instance, has been in the same cinder-block building ever since Slim took control of it, nineteen years ago.

A three or four point swing or pollster miscalculation in either direction moves projected results from continued (though slim) Democratic control of the House to an 80-seat Republican victory that it could very well take decades for Democrats to overcome.

Mr. Slim already controls all three companies.

Telcel began life as a unit of Teléfonos de Mexico, known as Telmex, the dominant Mexican land-line telephone company, which Mr. Slim has controlled for more than a decade.