Sentence examples for under firm control from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush seems to have the South under firm control, but that is not enough.

Mr. Luppi keeps all this shape-shifting under firm control with the pressure of his hand.

The short answer is Mr Berlusconi, who has his centre-right coalition under firm control.

He monitors himself well and from what he tells me has his sex drive under firm control".

Much of the developing world kept prices under firm control between 1994 and 1999, according to figures from the IMF.

Today, by contrast, inflation is under firm control and the economy is currently operating a little below its capacity.

Their moods were under firmer control.

With the House now under firmer control of the far right, the only chance of getting reasonable legislation passed is for the Senate to bring more progressive legislation to conference.

One of Hill's officers wrote of the "ill Nature and Sowerness of these People, whose Government, Doctrine, and Manners, whose Hypocracy and canting, are unsupportable", and further commented that unless they were brought under firmer control, the colonists would "grow more stiff and disobedient every Day".

Chirac then reconstituted the Gaullists under the title Rally for the Republic, under his firm control.

(Under Putin's stewardship, the press was brought under the firm control of the Kremlin, as Michael Specter wrote in 2007).