Outside of the vast control that the state government holds over New York City, Mr. Bloomberg has been most surprised by the tenacity of advocacy groups, which often hold out for every last demand rather than settle disputes, his aides said.
For much of his career, he oversaw the building and deployment of passenger cars, which gave him control over vast sums of money.
A transitional government was elected last year but President Abdikassim Salad Hassan has no control over vast swaths of the country, including the regions of Somaliland and Puntland in the north.
He denied that his strategy meant that his government had only limited control over vast stretches of deserts and mountains where for centuries heavily armed tribesmen have protected renegades from the reach of Yemeni rulers.
But the backlash against a second raid could bring down the government of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, which has teetered on the brink of collapse and has little control over vast parts of the country, particularly in the eastern part near Benghazi.
View Recorrido de los candidatos presidenciales in a larger map Though the opposition this time is united under the vibrant Mr. Capriles, Mr. Chávez still has vast advantages, including tight control over a state apparatus that includes the coffers of the national oil company PDVSA.
They also have control over vast amounts of territory spreading from parts of Iraq and Syria and manage it in a way that really closely resembles statehood (At-Tamimi 2015a).
From her base in Perth the 57-year-old Rinehart has amassed control over vast tracts of the country's mineral-rich outback.
Although this was eventually quashed by police, over the years India's Maoists have regrouped and asserted control over vast swathes of land in central and eastern India, establishing a so-called "red corridor".
