Sentence examples for yearning for control from inspiring English sources

The luggage industry understands this yearning for control and has helped us to overcomplicate things in the name of simplification.

Mr Packer has long yearned for control of Fairfax.

And the powerless want power, naturally: Sansa has only known suffering and yearns for control over a destiny hitherto dictated by men; Baelish, of course, wants a love so vast that an entire continent couldn't fill the void.

But it left him yearning for the control he enjoyed as a playwright, and he resolved to reclaim it.

The centralisation of power in Westminster wasn't the top issue in this referendum, but the yearning for greater control was.

But that still would point to large numbers of Scots yearning for greater control over their destiny.

Some employees yearn for more control over their work time the result of work that stretches across time zones, a 24/7 culture that evolved to meet rigid deadlines or demanding client expectations, or the always-on mentality that stems partly from technology enabling people to connect to work at any time.

He also yearned for creative control, said his son Matthew, a film producer.

As their personal finances shored up, professionals I surveyed yearned for more control over their lives.

The proportion of Americans yearning for tighter gun controls has been dropping by a point or two every year since 1990.

A need for control, a yearning to alleviate the boredom from the monotony of everyday life or a troubled upbringing with childhood trauma.