Sentence examples for strive for control from inspiring English sources

Some clients will strive for control and freedom to choose for themselves, others will acquiesce to the overwhelming changes wrought in their lives.

But I want two at all times (p)." If the patient was unable to strive for control because of poor health a HC assistants could step in.

The theoretical model that resulted from the study illustrated that patients in need of 24-hour home care strive for control and safe care (Table 3).

We found that patients receiving 24-hour home care strive for control and safety by developing compensatory processes, for example selecting and instructing HC assistants and coordinating their care themselves.

Outside the precinct, reality proved more difficult to circumscribe, and striving for control became something of a political act in itself.

The city has been troubled by tensions between Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen striving for control of the area and its huge oil wealth.

Polycrates, (flourished 6th century bc), tyrant (c. 535 522 bc) of the island of Samos, in the Aegean Sea, who established Samian naval supremacy in the eastern Aegean and strove for control of the archipelago and mainland towns of Ionia.

For hundreds of years the Low Countries of Western Europe were often referred to as a "cockpit" — that is, a fighting ground over which the greater nations strove for control.

C. 600 BCE - c. 522 BCE Polycrates, (flourished 6th century bc), tyrant (c. 535 522 bc) of the island of Samos, in the Aegean Sea, who established Samian naval supremacy in the eastern Aegean and strove for control of the archipelago and mainland towns of Ionia.

I show that the second approach won out as Greenland's exceptional geography and environment forced the US military to reassess its relationship with nature: rather than striving for control over the island space, US military personnel ultimately chose strategic cooperation with that space.

I have made a conscious effort to move from a surgeon that strives for control over the circumstances he faces in the operating room to a compassionate listener who sees people for who they are.