control
Usage
Example Sentences
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Beijing has since put pressure on the tycoons and firms behind the deal to restructure terms so control shifts to Cosco, a shipping group owned by China, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
"I can be a bit of a control freak, and I feel like as a traitor, it really is the best way to take control of the game," he said.
From BBC
And yet it is precisely a lack of hyperbole or hysteria—a quieting control, one might say—that makes it so moving.
The Justice Department on Wednesday stopped trying to prevent control of the National Guard troops in Los Angeles from returning to the California governor.
IS recently increased its attacks in areas of Syria controlled by the Damascus authorities.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
