Example sentences of "[adj] control over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Democratic rights ( such as press freedom or voting rights ) merely foster social control over the hearts and minds of workers by virtue of capitalists ' property resources . |
| 2 | The second function of the professional-managerial class is to exercise social control over the working class . |
| 3 | With enormous gains in the white-collar suburbs , Labour became the party of bureaucrats , administrators and a progressive intelligentsia , all predisposed to seeing a greater share of public control over an increasing range of national affairs . |
| 4 | In these elite theory accounts , then , political leadership principally consists of maintaining an impression of public control over the state apparatus as a whole , and developing slogans or political formulae useful in mobilizing voter or interest group support . |
| 5 | These facts raise important issues of accountability such as : should there be any public control over the funding and internal organization of pressure groups ? |
| 6 | There must also be a place for ‘ commodity-money relations ’ , or in other words the market , which was an ‘ irreplaceable means for the flexible economic coordination of production with growing and constantly changing public requirements and an important instrument of public control over the quality of goods and the costs of their production ’ . |
| 7 | Sir Richard Attenborough , chairman of Channel 4 , said it was ‘ utterly improper that any government should have direct control over the appointment of who will run Channel 4 ’ . |
| 8 | The Congress approved most of the new powers Mr Gorbachev had requested , including direct control over the government and over a new security council . |
| 9 | We have no direct control over the provision of services to clients by suppliers . |
| 10 | The new system , which was implemented in 1892 , took away from the Inspector-General direct control over the force . |
| 11 | Except for Mr Tunze , all seven African backbenchers who spoke were highly critical of the TBC and advocated more direct control over the way it handled its finances , the news it chose to broadcast , and even the type of entertainment it presented . |
| 12 | They had offered him the position of editor in chief with , apparently , more direct control over the content of the paper , but only if he came off the Board . |
| 13 | Workers may strike for better pay and conditions , but draw back from trying to gain direct control over the means of production or the content of work . |
| 14 | However , as we do not have direct control over the day-to-day operation of hotels etc. , we can not guarantee absolutely that special requests can be complied with . |
| 15 | It has been rightly said that in the thirteenth century the king of France ( unlike the king of England ) possessed no direct control over the whole kingdom : ‘ outside the domain , default alone allowed him to act ’ . |
| 16 | The multiplier process would apply to additional investment expenditures also , but with both exports and investment expenditures the government has little direct control over the size of these flows . |
| 17 | Feudal societies established in Europe a social structure where states were underdeveloped and hence unable to exercise direct control over the population . |
| 18 | Other units rapidly followed establishing British control over the main lines of communication throughout most of Carinthia and by 10 May Gen Keightley had set up his 5 Corps HQ near Klagenfurt . |
| 19 | The East India Company had extended British control over the Indian subcontinent in a haphazard fashion as opportunity dictated . |
| 20 | ‘ What a funny old election this is , at which the political parties argue about taxation and legislation but declare all the time that they intend the electors of this country to have no further control over the very questions that are being put to them . ’ |
| 21 | Hargreaves discussed ‘ policing ’ strategies in an urban middle school , with their detailed control over the talk , bodily movement and gestures of working-class children . |
| 22 | Through the emergence of the arts and crafts movement , Morris succeeded in establishing a craft tradition in which the individual could retain some control over every stage of manufacture from design to execution , and thereby gain a far more satisfactory relationship with the product . |
| 23 | First , there is the early Marxist approach of Ian Taylor which emphasises that hooligan behaviour is a symbolic attempt by working-class fans to restore some control over a game which they feel increasingly alienated from . |
| 24 | The aim is to give councils some control over the future growth of second homes . |
| 25 | Pressure by environmentalists in the US has meant that that country has exerted some control over the industry by insisting that observers are placed on board US-registered boats . |
| 26 | Begin to form letters with some control over the size , shape and orientation of letters or lines of writing . |
| 27 | Henry attempted to gain some control over the situation . |
| 28 | For the issuing bank , the documents of title provide some control over the goods and may be used to ensure re-sale proceeds of the importer are paid to it . |
| 29 | The trust is invalid on several counts : no property has been bequeathed to the curator so the principle of benefit is infringed ; if the curator had been validly appointed , which he has not , then he would be able to exercise some control over the foster-child 's use of the land ; but even then , since he would not be owner , it would be a problem that it was he who was charged with the trust for distributing shares in the income from the land . |
| 30 | They thus have some control over the speed with which the AGV moves through their section , and for those sections where the carrier does not move for the full 20 minutes there is the opportunity to pace their work over that span . |