Example sentences of "control over the [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 John Wildman , who sat in the Convention as member for Great Bedwin , produced a tract in which he argued that the King 's legislative veto and power to dismiss Parliament be removed and that control over the militia , the declaration of war and the appointment of judges should be transferred to Parliament .
2 The Government needed control over the media , or to have that control in reserve , not only in order to prevent such support of minority interests but also to ensure that the vitally important class of entrepreneurs and middle-level professional executive people — whose loyalty was vital to the success of any government policy — should be won over to the cause or , at the very least , not be encouraged to oppose government policies .
3 By employing this structured procedure the designer now has control over the data he recalls from the turnkey system .
4 They had no formal control over the staff or the centres ' finances .
5 The bureaucratic-technical class does not have control over the means of production , but does have control over labour power and , unlike the dominant class , finds its remuneration not in profits but in salaries and fees .
6 The main feature of the bureaucratic-technical class is that although it lacks effective control over the means of production its members do have control over the labour of others in their subordinate position in bureaucratic structures .
7 For those , such as the rural semi-proletariat and the absolutely landless with little control over the means of production with which to meet their needs , even individual responses are denied them .
8 They remained in control over the means of mass communications but those whose work or views they had long ignored were now clamouring for access .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Workers expect to have some control over the means by which they perform a set task , and they resent having means specified in too much detail .
12 It gave Raymond Cusick a far greater guarantee of artistic control over the series .
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