Sentence examples for were taking control of from inspiring English sources

In 1946, as the Communists were taking control of Romania, he fled to England with his first wife, Margarete Schmidt.

For a while it seemed as if southerners were taking control of their own destiny for the first time since the Risorgimento.

The next day, as Hezbollah fighters and their allies were taking control of west Beirut, one Sunni fighter ran up to a group of young men in the Sunni stronghold of Tarik Jadideh and told them it was over.

Blumenthal also engaged in speculation that neocons led by former RNC chair Ed Gillespie were taking control of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and forwarded Clinton several articles from the leftwing website Salon.com.

Throughout those awful days, as his kidnappers kicked and punched him, applied electrical shocks to his genitals and insulted him with sectarian taunts, he could hear the chatter of gunfire and the crash of rocket-propelled grenades outside, where Hezbollah and its allies were taking control of the capital.

We'd heard a lot, read a lot about the guerrilla fighters with bushy beards who'd toppled the dragon Batista and were taking control of their own island in the name of the people.

We're taking control of the process".

"They are taking control of security of supply themselves," Butlin added.

It's made me a stronger person, and now I'm taking control of it".

She's still running hard but no one's taking control of it.

Now, new rebel groups appear to be taking control of the western region.