Sentence examples for was attempting to control from inspiring English sources

Publishers believed that Amazon was attempting to control every part of the industry.

But soon, Olson told me, Diab was attempting to control every aspect of their lives, often through physical abuse.

Much of the content was deeply confused and incoherent, claiming the government was attempting to control people's minds by controlling grammar.

"Andrew Baron was attempting to control us for no apparent reason," Ms. Congdon said in a interview from New Haven, where she, her brother Andrew Congdon and the writer and director Mario Librandi had put together the show since May.

The Boers were hostile toward indigenous African peoples, with whom they fought frequent range wars, and toward the government of the Cape, which was attempting to control Boer movements and commerce.

Union Major General Franz Sigel was attempting to control the terminus of the Manassas Gap Railroad and capture New Market to control the only road across Massanutten Mountain to the east.

In this double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study (n = 26) that lasted for 1 year, it was attempted to control for dietary factors to determine efficacy of lysine supplementation, as was also suggested by Algert et al. [ 66].

First, I will explain how the regime is attempting to control it through threats of prosecution: the fear-mongering strategy.

Rumors abound that this will be Silas's last season in charge, but he is attempting to control his exit.

He may indeed have been attempting to control the succession, but his scheming may have gone badly wrong.

In revisiting their actions, though, it is possible to forget the strength of the forces that they were attempting to control.