Example sentences of "direct control over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Congress approved most of the new powers Mr Gorbachev had requested , including direct control over the government and over a new security council . |
| 4 | We have no direct control over the provision of services to clients by suppliers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 new system , which was implemented in 1892 , took away from the Inspector-General direct control over the force . |
| 9 | Feudal societies established in Europe a social structure where states were underdeveloped and hence unable to exercise direct control over the population . |