Sentence examples for took overall control from inspiring English sources

The Lib Dems lost Liverpool to Labour while ceding Sheffield and Rochdale to NOC, though they took overall control of Winchester and Cheltenham.

Ukip took overall control of Thanet district council from Labour, increasing its seats on the local authority from two to 33.

Labour took overall control or became the largest party in a swath of councils, taking the most seats in Aberdeen, the oil-rich city on Salmond's doorstep, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, East Lothian and West Lothian, and taking overall control of West Dunbartonshire.

Their gains in Harlow were so stunning that they took overall control of the council for the first time ever, and Labour did not win a single ward in what had been until recently an old Labour (in every sense) municipal stronghold.

Meanwhile, Vince Cable took overall control of universities and further education as the new Business Secretary.

Meyszner took overall control of the SDS three days after its formation, a decision which was strongly opposed by Nedić.

Ashley's long-term intentions for Rangers remain unclear, along with the implications for Newcastle, though Easdale claimed the sports retailer "has not intimated to me" that he wants to take overall control of Rangers.

He claimed the funding had been in place when the Barclays, also owners of the Ritz and the Telegraph newspapers, jumped in to take overall control of the hotels by buying the debts owed by the third of the three shareholders in the group, Derek Quinlan.

✒Soon to take overall control of these newly built phallic structures is Jason Seiken, the PBS digital chief just appointed as the Telegraph Media Group's chief content officer and editor-in-chief – the pillar commanders will report to him (you might prefer to imagine him as Spock to group chief executive Murdoch MacLennan's Captain Kirk, with the five under-bosses as their crew).

He confirmed that he had spoken to Crowe, the former New Zealand batsman who has been appointed by the International Cricket Council to take overall control of discipline in the early stages of the series, and who is also thought to have had discussions with Clarke.

The court heard how McKillen, who owns 35% of Coroin, the hotels group, tried to take overall control by approaching various creditors and used former prime minister Tony Blair to act as an "honest broker" to set up a meeting with the Qatari royal family to secure funding for a bid.