Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for [noun sg] over the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Here , then , a connection is being made between organization power structures and the needs of dominant social classes for control over the workplace .
2 Although Cold War ideology and initial public ignorance in the West of the horrific power of nuclear weapons at first muted the public pressures behind a renewed expression of the unacceptability of indiscriminate means of warfare , the growth of the popular movement for peace over the past twenty-five years and especially in its recent phase must now lead to a reaffirmation of the principle and its application to nuclear weapons .
3 Mutual support in troubled times then , is seen as a reciprocal reward for cooperation over the long term .
4 The guard was removed on the following day , but the incident exemplified the renewed struggle for control over the influential liberal daily newspaper .
5 The implication is that Saruman has been led from ethically neutral researches into the kind of wanton pollution and love of dirt we see in ‘ The Scouring of the Shire ’ by something corrupting in the love of machines or in the very desire for control over the natural world .
6 If he is to persuade his colleagues that he can win for the party , he will need to seize every available chance for exposure over the next two , three , or even four years .
7 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 .
8 In its recent report , it said that the White Paper ’ contains no hint of the Government 's financial strategy for defence over the coming decade . ’
9 Further , at the ‘ macroeconomic ’ level , the fiscal and monetary management of aggregate demand gradually displaced physical planning as the favoured mechanism for control over the economy ( this shift is charted quite precisely by Budd , 1978 ) .
  Next page