To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc.
What seems to help in marriage and family therapy is ingenuity on the part of the therapist that will give him or her power or control over a situation that is out of control.
Some yogis have extended their range of control over inner, normally involuntary processes in dramatic ways.
Biofeedback Biofeedback can help many people gain control over habitual, automatic processes.
He generally has a certain power of oversight over the other principal state officers, but little power of control over them.
By an important act passed in Illinois in 1917 a large number of bureaus and commissions were consolidated and placed under the authority of departmental heads appointed by the governor, who has a large power of control over them.
On all questions relating to Workers’ Control over production, distribution and employment, the Trade Unions must confer with the workers of individual establishments through their Factory-Shop Committees.
As the speaker's right to appoint does not carry with it the power to remove, he has no control over a committee after it is appointed.
This does not always prevent him, however, from exercising enough freedom in making up the committees to insure him a large measure of control over legislation.
This gives us some, but by no means an adequate, idea of the President's control over legislation.
I knew not what to do; for nothing gave me pleasure, and I had no control over myself.
It was embarrassing to me for I had no control over my emotions, and agitated, I fled from the room.
I had no right to be depressed, in my opinion, yet I felt I had no control over my radical ups and downs.
Having no control over my jaw, the bottom row of teeth pulled to the left, straining against its natural alignment and audibly cracking as it contorted my entire face.
As man grows in power of control over nature, he seeks to apply these forces in forms and at places he has selected.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "control over" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
