Example sentences of "control over [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Being head of the Board of Directors , as well as a major stockholder in said company , your female progenitor has complete control over mission profile and personnel . ’
2 Men seek control over women apparently .
3 The radical feminist analysis described at the beginning of this chapter would see these as aspects of men 's patriarchal control over women ; the Marxist feminists would see them as a result of capitalism ; others would see them as the outcome of both systems , and indeed of racist systems too .
4 The Supreme Soviet had resolved to reassume control over Izvestiya in October , but the Mass Media Committee of the Supreme Soviet decided on Oct. 27 to renew examination of the issue and to submit information to the Constitutional Court and the Court of Arbitration [ for background see pp. 39020 ; 39058 ] .
5 By the early 1960s , however , there was increasing pressure for control over immigration .
6 developed from Xerox research ( like just about everything else we take for granted in desktop publishing ) these are a method of providing user control over software without cluttering up the screen with text .
7 A lot of countries do n't have control over their own economies , they do n't have control over things like whether of not people are going to have jobs , whether or not people are going to make a livelihood , whether or not people are going to even be able to live in the country , because in Ireland something like 1000 people a week are leaving the country in order to get work .
8 It was held that he was properly indicted with stealing from the company because a person or company in control of the site is deemed prima facie to have control over things on the land .
9 Thus , someone who is primarily in an anorexic phase , using starvation as his or her prime method of control over emotions and relationships , may have episodes of bingeing and then starve again as a method of gaining further , illusory , control and in order to control the physical consequences of the binge .
10 Thus , the US policy manages to combine ‘ control over quantities ’ for aggregate pollution , where the risks and uncertainties are greatest , with ‘ control through the price system ’ for allocating efficiently the way these overall targets are achieved .
11 I have personally received an assurance from the AAA General Committee that the management powers granted to road running will be similar to those given to cross-country , including control over championships and team selection etc .
12 In the United Kingdom it took the form of productivity deals aimed at eroding shopfloor control over working practices .
13 The manifesto then proposes more democratic control over education and leisure , an end to the financing of two distinct educational systems , an increase in old-age pensions , and more facilities for the handicapped .
14 But there is a different aspect of the new movement towards centralized control over education , aimed towards stripping Local Authorities of their general powers in the provision of education .
15 Within a context of ‘ de-politicizing ’ labour affairs , local control over education was constrained by a prior national need to confront the radical teachers union , and the liberal emphasis on decentralizing curricula control was checked .
16 Strengthening of party control over education
17 Apart from loss of control over females , there is also another danger in overinflating the size of the harem .
18 We have already discussed the leverage deriving from control over expertise .
19 I 'd like to find out if part of your opposition to grant maintained status is due to the fact that as a councillor you would no longer be able to exercise control over grant maintained schools .
20 Several factors point to the differences in the experience of unemployment : women 's position in the labour market and access to occupational benefits ; their domestic roles and the dominant familial ideology ; their lack of control over household resources ; their problematic identification with the ‘ unemployed status ’ ; and their treatment by the DSS , Jobcentres , the Benefits Agency , Training and Enterprise Councils and the Training , Enterprise and Employment Directorate of the Department of Employment .
21 It is quite obvious that planning control over agriculture is not strong enough .
22 By the time the member states were ready to discuss it in March 1952 , the document under consideration had been so diluted from the original scheme as to present no dangers at all to national authority control over agriculture .
23 A range of consumer and environmental groups fear that the patenting of plants and animals will give large companies increased control over agriculture .
24 Lord Denning observed : ‘ In the OLA 1957 the word occupier is used [ as ] … a convenient word to denote a person who had a sufficient degree of control over premises to put him under a duty of care towards those who came lawfully on to the premises . ’
25 Lord Denning stated : Wherever a person has a sufficient degree of control over premises that he ought to realise that any failure on his part to use care may result in injury to a person coming lawfully there , then he is an occupier and the person coming lawfully there is his visitor .
26 Initially concerned mainly with royal patronage , it broadened until it involved a claim by the state to regulate every aspect of the activities of the Church , from its right as a corporation to hold property to its control over university education and charitable foundations .
27 Yet the tsar replaced Putiatin with Golovnin , appointed a commission which " conducted the most extensive investigation into the idea of a Russian university ever undertaken by the old regime " , took advice even from the liberal Professor Kavelin , and introduced a law which improved the funding of universities , gave professors a large degree of control over university affairs , maintained the principle that universities were open to all classes of the community , and allowed universities to go on dedicating themselves , first and foremost , to the study of the liberal arts .
28 ‘ The Slav idea , indirect Austrian control over Serbia or even German domination of the Straits do not , in the light of cold reason , ’ concludes a recent review of Russia 's options , ‘ seem to have justified the appalling risks Russia faced in entering a European war . ’
29 Now comes a suggestion that the city also had control over land use outside its environs , not in this case in the Maya area , but in wetlands near the modern port of Veracruz , west of the Yucatan Peninsula .
30 Some of these richer families in the village were becoming entrepreneurial , while others still clung to the exercise of power through control over land .
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