Sentence examples for small measure of control from inspiring English sources

On Monday, it was only after I went through security, scrutinized other passengers and saw no one moving toward the pilot's cabin after takeoff that I felt a small measure of control -- and an accompanying drop in fear.

But privacy campaigners say this does give the private individual, who does not want their entire identity defined by a search engine, some small measure of control over how their neighbours see them.

GM's decision to idle 13 assembly plants, some for as long as nine weeks, is an effort to retain a small measure of control as it, too, hurtles toward a likely bankruptcy filing sometime next month.

— and no small measure of authorial vanity.

It robbed him of a small measure of gravity.

Belfour's performance earned him a small measure of redemption.

And there is already a small measure of space tourism.

For McCain, that's no small measure of vindication.

It was a small measure of justice.

There is a small measure of truth in that.

Those words offer only a small measure of comfort, however.