Example sentences of "control [prep] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | A communique read on Panama 's national radio in the afternoon denounced the coup attempt and said General Noriega was still in control of the country . |
| 2 | But diplomats say that with many opposition politicians in jail and the continuing arrests , few Burmese expect the elections to affect the military 's control of the country . |
| 3 | In these colourful tales , which we might almost believe were collected from early copies of ancient Israelite boys ' comics , Samson wages a one-man war against the Philistines , who are represented as having control of the country . |
| 4 | THE RUSSIAN government threatened to resign yesterday if parliament prised its fingers from control of the country 's economic reforms , a move that would plunge the country into its worst crisis since last August 's coup . |
| 5 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 6 | There was no mention in the treaty , however , either of the estates in Scotland granted to English lords by Edward I and lost as Bruce gained control of the country , or of the Scottish lands held by Anglo-Scottish lords such as the Earl of Angus and forfeited when they adhered to the English cause . |
| 7 | Japan was in effective control of the country during the 1894–5 War , but her efforts to intervene in Korea 's domestic affairs were clumsy in the extreme . |
| 8 | Revolution in 1911 was followed by thirty-eight years of civil conflict during which control of the country was fragmented and China lacked any unified , stable national government . |
| 9 | The Germans , already in the country in large numbers , had seized Rome , and Hitler had ordered the setting up of a political system which would take effective control of the country and also take under its wing any future Fascist administration . |
| 10 | While my father was on his way to England , Lij Yasu , with the support of the Fitaurari Habta Giorgis , Menelik 's commander-in-chief , seized the palace and assumed control of the country . |
| 11 | Had Ras Makonnen lived he would have assumed control of the country when Menelik was incapacitated , and as his cousin would undoubtedly have succeeded him . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the announcement that the NSF would contest the free elections scheduled for April was greeted with consternation in many quarters , opponents depicting it as a ploy by communists to retain control of the country . |
| 13 | It was reported on March 10 that fresh charges had been filed against Enrile which accused him of attempting corruptly to seize control of the country 's coconut industry . |
| 14 | Iraq pushes its forces into Kuwait and swiftly gains control of the country , claiming to have been invited in by Kuwaiti revolutionaries . |
| 15 | Ershad met with senior Army officers who informed him that they were unwilling to step in and take control of the country . |
| 16 | Particularly controversial was the Slovak government 's demand for a division of control of the country 's oil and gas pipelines from the Soviet Union , which raised fears in the Czech republic over the supply of vital energy resources . |
| 17 | News of the coup was first broadcast on Army Television Channel 5 when Gen. Sunthorn announced that a National Peace-Keeping Council ( NPKC ) had taken control of the country in order to preserve the democratic system . |
| 18 | The armed forces , he said , had been in complete control of the country within days of the 1973 coup . |
| 19 | However , the ruling junta ( the National Peace-Keeping Council — NPKC ) , ensured that it would determine the shape of the future political system and if necessary would employ harsh measures to retain full control of the country prior to a fresh general election . |
| 20 | Observers conjectured that a takeover was attempted because of fear that the Union Treaty [ see p. 38348-49 ] , due to be signed on Aug. 20 by the Russian Federation , Byelorussia , Kazakhstan , Tajikistan and Uzbekistan , would end effective central control of the country . |
| 21 | A statement by Gorbachev , saying that he was again in control of the country , was broadcast before his return to Moscow that evening . |
| 22 | A military junta , the National Peace-Keeping Assembly ( NPA ) , took control of the country , giving political corruption as the main justification for their action . |
| 23 | In 1982 the government of the FSM signed a compact of free association , implemented in 1986 , under which the USA granted internal sovereignty and US aid in return for continuing US control of the country 's defence and foreign policies . |
| 24 | President Joseph Saidu Momoh was reported to have fled to neighbouring Guinea on April 30 after mutinous soldiers said that they had seized control of the country . |
| 25 | On May 1 Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser was named as chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) , the body which had assumed control of the country after a successful coup against President Joseph Momoh on April 30 [ see pp. 38552-54 ] . |
| 26 | What began as something of a blitzkrieg , intended to paralyse Iran 's military and oil-transmission systems and the political leadership 's control of the country , soon slowed down , encountering a totally unexpected capacity to resist on the part of the Iranian forces . |
| 27 | West Germany 's Daimler-Benz looks set to win its long battle for control of the country 's aerospace industry . |
| 28 | When the military assumed political control of the country , power fell into the hands of a small group of decision-makers composed of soldiers , policemen and civil servants . |
| 29 | I 'll be very , very brief erm we can not fall back the control of the country which even the highest rate of recycling that a number of them have already achieved the Government recycling target so now you 've aimed er , I think it 's something rich it more or less stands for er , I would see the role of the County is essentially is co-ordination between the various waste collection authorities through to the greater of the extense of |
| 30 | Whilst control over the country was transferred to the armed forces , the task of directly confronting recalcitrant elements a the population was largely entrusted to the ZOMO ( motorised militia ) ORMO ( militia reserve ) and élite security units . |