Sentence examples for then in control of from inspiring English sources

The author is obviously in control of the characters, who we feel live and breathe, but then in control of the readers, as well.

By then in control of an area that is home to 6m-8m people, it declared a caliphate at the end of that month.

What they had not foreseen was that thousands of the newcomers flooding into the Atlanta suburbs would be out-of-state Republicans who rejected both the Democratic power structure and the Goldwater Republicans then in control of the Southern G.O.P.

Victory for the Luftwaffe in the air battle would have exposed Great Britain to invasion by the German army, which was then in control of the ports of France only a few miles away across the English Channel.

Working with the local office of the Committee of Union and Progress, the party then in control of the Ottoman state, and with Kurdish irregulars, he created eleven battalions, populated by "the worst specimens of thieves, brigands, murders, deserters, etc.," the former British pro-consul in Diyarbakir wrote in a report filed to the U.S. State Department in 1919.

Bin Laden, on the other hand, was rich, and he had his own vision: to create an all-Arab foreign legion that would pursue the retreating Soviets into Central Asia and also fight against the Marxist government that was then in control of South Yemen.

However, if one's actions are caused by factors that one does not control, but that do allow one to have and exercise the relevant capacities, then one can be "in control" of one's actions in the relevant sense, and so responsible for one's actions.

Nevertheless, neither Rabi nor the military, then largely in control of oscillator research money in university radiation laboratories, believed that Townes's maser was a practical proposition.

About 20 minutes after a transport plane left with 20 hooded and shackled members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, snipers fired on marines, who then were in control of the airbase.

Earlier Muammar Gaddafi called for supporters from across Libya to help him defend the capital, with rebel forces then already in control of parts and massing on its western outskirts for a decisive assault.

Then, while in control of A.I.G. (this time under the Obama administration), the government's managers allowed A.I.G. to pay out the bonuses it owed employees under their employment contracts — again inviting the criticism that a private acquirer would have renegotiated and paid out less, or nothing.