exercise control
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I always felt you cannot play golf with tension, or trying to exercise control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Philosopher Elizabeth Anderson argues that the workplace operates as an “arbitrary and unaccountable” dictatorship, in which employers exercise control of workers inside and outside of the workplace:
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025
"By controlling or blocking or diverting aid," says Ms Stoddard, "armed groups can destabilise the government, and exercise control over territories and populations".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2023
These types of religious debates remained at the center of the numerous ecumenical councils thereafter, and emperors sometimes used them to exercise control over church-related matters.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
A cough was something Olanna could exercise control over, an air raid was not.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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