Example sentences of "control over their [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Credit unions , while initiating from the wish of people to have greater control over their own affairs , do not come into existence spontaneously . |
| 4 | There were strong pressures from still further national minorities for a greater degree of control over their own affairs . |
| 5 | They even had some control over their own finances and their own armed forces . |
| 6 | It will ’ devolve budgets to units , giving them a significant measure of control over their own finances . |
| 7 | Under the Government 's fund-holding initiative , doctors have control over their own spending on behalf of patients for the first time . |
| 8 | In such a system individual workers lost control over their own work rhythm , and became fully adjuncts to the machine , repeating those few elementary movements designed by engineering departments as the rationalized sum of their formal organizational existence . |
| 9 | Dependence on bureaucracies ( local authorities , the NHS , the social security system ) is said to present people with a lack of control over their own lives , to damage the spirit of independence . |
| 10 | The greater understanding of the minds of our common farm animals that we gain from these experiments will undoubtedly be of use in designing housing systems which allow the animals both increased freedom , and increased control over their own lives . |
| 11 | At the level of the individual , efforts have been made to promote practices in residential and , to a lesser extent , in community care which will enhance old people 's rights to greater control over their own lives . |
| 12 | They were also , however , profoundly suspicious of proposals for state welfare , which they identified as a means of diminishing working-class control over their own lives and as palliative substitutes for the workers ' just demands for control over the means of production , high wages and full employment . |
| 13 | The central drama of the revolution was precisely the attempt of the Russian masses to assert direct control over their own lives ; its tragedy was their subordination to Bolshevik domination . |
| 14 | Community development has to do with communities assuming greater control over their own lives and with people , both individually and collectively taking up an increased decision-making role in social life . |
| 15 | In addition , the community health movement adheres to the principles of community development , especially in its emphasis on people 's rights and the need for people to assume control over their own lives . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , on the other hand it was widely felt that the system itself denied young people opportunities and circumstances in which they could have control over their own lives and education . |
| 17 | Such forms of help were seen as enabling young people , in the long term , to have control over their own lives . |
| 18 | Professionals were in a position in which the interventions they engaged in denied young disabled people the very control over their own lives and education they were intended to promote . |
| 19 | It is basically a call for people , oppressed people , to have more control over their own lives , to shape their world and to use modern resources and technology to do so . |
| 20 | How does the Prime Minister reconcile the welcome emphasis that he placed at the Commonwealth conference on the extension of democratic government throughout the Commonwealth with the continuing reluctance of the Government to give any form of democratic control over their own lives to the people of Wales and Scotland ? |
| 21 | They had no real control over their own lives , and were forced around by men . |
| 22 | We have a choice of technologies , and Europe 's science and technology strategy must be designed to promote those which respect ecological requirements , enhance individuals ' control over their own lives and create new prospects for employment . |
| 23 | Another reform that gave schools an incentive to save money was the passing to schools of control over their own budgets . |
| 24 | The issues of education , schools now are in control over their own budgets and if not handled properly will become a recipe for disaster . |
| 25 | We will have more success at slowing world population growth if we see it as problem of enabling women in poor countries to have control over their own reproduction , which some carefully targeted development aid could go a long way towards achieving . |
| 26 | Above all , they give people a sense of having a greater control over their own destiny . |
| 27 | If variation were random , as Darwin supposed , then living things had no control over their own destiny — each individual 's fate was sealed by the characters it inherited . |
| 28 | I am persuaded by the majority of legal opinion , which suggests that Britain , her people and her political leaders retain ultimate control over their own destiny . |
| 29 | How significant that his response to the overwhelming evidence that the people of this nation want to have some form of democratic control over their own destiny is to propose anything other than a democratic solution . |
| 30 | Will they have more control over their own care and treatment ? |