Example sentences of "control [prep] their [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would cure unemployment , it would give the workers control of their own industries and that everything would be hunkydory . |
| 2 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 3 | He said the Lib Dems would encourage school opting out but stop hospitals taking control of their own finances . |
| 4 | Men might reject the guiding hand of Providence and increasingly take control of their own lives , but death , when it came to them or their loved ones , had the same countenance that had frightened their ancestors . |
| 5 | The meeting aimed to help the client make choices and take risks , and to be more in control of their own lives . |
| 6 | to enhance their decision-making control of their own lives ; |
| 7 | We must remember that to deny someone control of their own lives is to offer them a most profound insult , not to mention the injury which the frustration of their wishes and the setting at naught of their own plans for themselves will add . |
| 8 | As workers in the ‘ caring services ’ we need to ask ourselves certain questions : are we enabling and supporting people to take control of their own lives or are we disabling , taking the control for ourselves ? |
| 9 | And people now have much greater control of their own lives through their participation in neighbourhood committees in the barrios as well as in the mass organizations . |
| 10 | Sex education in schools may therefore have most impact if it aims to discourage helpless attitudes , by emphasising to young people that they are in control of their own lives , encouraging them to see themselves as active rather than passive , and in discussing what they might do in the event of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 11 | In our second report on Oxfam 's work in South America we meet a researcher from Oxford whose efforts may help forgotten people to take back control of their own lives … |
| 12 | Many more of the 226 schools that have taken control of their own affairs in the past three years fear victimisation if they are returned to hostile local authorities . |
| 13 | Spinsters and widows enjoyed the legal status of femme sole in which they had control of their own affairs . |
| 14 | Thus the implantation of the intendant system weakened rather than strengthened the hold of metropolitan Spain , by ending corrupt practices that had allowed creoles control of their own affairs , and by creating bitter rivalries between the new officials and their subordinates . |
| 15 | They wanted a model which reflected their need to retain control of their own affairs as individuals and their concern not to allow any cosmetic compromises . |
| 16 | The schools who took the challenge are happy to be in control of their own affairs . |
| 17 | Republics would have control of their own resources , except gold , diamonds and hard currency . |
| 18 | Schools have control of their own budgets , with the freedom that entails . |
| 19 | Processes of hiving-off , privatization and contracting out are all based on the belief that ‘ public ’ services will be provided more efficiently if those providing them have control of their own budgets and compete for contracts . |
| 20 | General principles of local self-government and local economy , approved on April 9 and due to enter into force progressively from July 1 , granted local soviets ( councils ) " broad powers to decide matters relating to social and economic development and environmental protection " , including full control of their own budgets . |
| 21 | They claim he spoke hastily on the issue of surgeries in Darlington which have control of their own budgets . |
| 22 | If teachers are to assume a greater role in the control of their own organisations a far wider range of knowledge and skills is required than if they are to remain ‘ in the classroom ’ — they must move from the restricted to the extended approach . |
| 23 | All of this was a sign that they were taking control of their own destinies instead of being swept along by a tidal wave of money , fame and popular enthusiasm . |
| 24 | The presbyterians also had misgivings , and only came back into the system in 1838 when they were practically guaranteed control of their own schools within it . |
| 25 | Of course if independent Republics do get control of their own weapons , it 's blown out of the water , their non proliferation treaty caught you has n't it ? |
| 26 | A much broader definition of empowerment proposes that people gain control in their own lives in the context of participating with others to change their social and political realities ( Rappaport , 1987 ; Zimmerman and Rappaport , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | Trade union leaders may well enter into " social contracts " with governments and pledge themselves and their members to wage restraint and productivity improvements in return for social benefits and an extension of trade union powers , but their control over their own members is limited and unofficial strikes can , and have , destroyed deals worked out at the top . |
| 28 | Yet the point of devolving power to provincial assemblies , central to the debate over the Tamil question , was to give these provinces some control over their own affairs . |
| 29 | Credit unions , while initiating from the wish of people to have greater control over their own affairs , do not come into existence spontaneously . |
| 30 | There were strong pressures from still further national minorities for a greater degree of control over their own affairs . |