Sentence examples for was to control the from inspiring English sources

The reason I had gone out to Sierra Leone was to control the spread of Ebola.

By several accounts one of Mr. Wells's tasks was to control the show's budget.

The only suggested reason he did not choose was "to control the Middle East".

"My main focus today was to control the match," Shaughnessy said.

"The idea was to control the thistles and poison oak with grasses," she recalls.

Mr Boyle's job, in his words, was to control the space in which the film was set.

His philosophy was to control the economic weather, not to issue detailed instructions about who should have umbrellas.

The tension between the two factions developed into a crisis over the question of who was to control the police.

I got there early, and I thought that the most important thing was to control the witness.

"What Enron apparently wanted to do was to control the outside partnerships, so you put your people or friends of your people in charge," he said.

The senior forward Anthony Glover (10.9 points, 6.7 rebounds) said his job was to control the paint and maintain a warrior's mentality.