Example sentences of "[verb] control [prep] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By employing this structured procedure the designer now has control over the data he recalls from the turnkey system . |
| 2 | He thus assumed control of the works begun in July 1277 , probably under the ageing Master Bertram ingeniator ( d . |
| 3 | It is recorded that when the Local Government Board assumed control of the waterworks in 1854 , Henry was most upset . |
| 4 | What the programme should do , however , is ( a ) draw attention to intermediate communication technology which functions independently ; ( b ) foster those technologies which allow control by the people , such as audio and video recordings , community press and community radio , and alternative computer networks ; and ( c ) contribute towards the development of communication policies based on the principle of people 's sovereignty . |
| 5 | Yet , the institution of the industrial co-operative commonwealth required that labour should take control of the means of production ; and for Owen , for whom the violence and destruction such as had attended the French Revolution were calamitous , the change to control by labour must happen peacefully . |
| 6 | If the point of the reference to Marx is to show that emergent English trade unionism had anticipated his conclusion that workers must take control of the means of production , that , to re-iterate his contemporaneous quotation from A Member of the Building Union : ‘ labour and capital will no longer be separate but they will be indissolubly joined together in the hands of the workmen and work-women ’ ; and again , this time from Bronterre O'Brien to the effect that the object of combination was ‘ to establish for the productive classes a complete domination over the fruits of their own industry … . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The immigrant groups had the numbers , even if they did n't have control of the media or the school board . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the base leg the captain took control of the aircraft and retarded the throttles . |
| 11 | If they do have a belief it is the ‘ self emancipation of the working class ’ — that the exploited sector of the global population recognise their material conditions and take control of the means of production through collective struggle . |
| 12 | This was that women became subordinated economically because the men gained control of the means of production , and so ‘ while the husband became the bourgeois the wife represented the proletariat ’ [ p. 137 ] . |