Sentence examples for were controls from inspiring English sources
verb
To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck.
The remaining 95 were controls.
Unemployment was rising, and there were controls on prices, wages, dividends and currency.
When there were controls, it was difficult to blind the researchers — that is, hide from them which volunteers had taken the actual drug.
Half of the rats were then injected with the elongated human amyloid; the other half were controls injected with harmless saline.
What they objected to were controls imposed on their lives by outsiders -- those who were not members of their communities, those who did not share their lives.
Security was beefed up, as were controls on the internet, where most attempts at remembrance now occur.
Groups 2 and 3 were controls.
Sham-operated animals (n = 20) were controls.
Hoe weeded and unweeded treatments were controls.
Results: In total, 602 patients underwent screening and 1989 were controls.
Individuals with PDD-NOS and ASP were worse at recognizing fearful faces than were controls.
