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Example sentences for "control the"

  • The men were so distributed as to control the election in every district.

  • I narrated the gross crimes of the Ku-Klux Klan and kindred associations to control the elections in the south, and the attempted bribery of an elector in Oregon.

  • We do not find that they attempted to control the board or to dictate their action.

  • But in the main, if his property burns it is due to the carelessness of some one who lives on the premises, and he is dependent upon his own efforts to control the fire.

  • Occasion for the exercise of the police power arises most frequently in cities, where it is necessary to control the construction of buildings for fire protection, and to regulate the kinds of business that may be conducted.

  • One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly.

  • Defn: The art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient.

  • A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.

  • He did not reject them, but used them sometimes to excite and sometimes to control the agitations of opinion.

  • Concerning birth-control the realities of the position must be faced.

  • In particular, we believe that some effective measures could be devised to control the distribution of that type of contraceptive which is mainly used in these circumstances.

  • Under any alteration it would be exceedingly difficult to control the merging of the therapeutic into the social and economic reasons.

  • Just as I direct, I may wish you to control the disappearance of that young one, who stands between me and our marriage.

  • Secretly, Southern plans are perfected to control the West.

  • Have the Filipinos any more moral right to control them than they have to control the Moros?

  • Board of Trade and Plantations, attempts of, to control the colonies, i.

  • He bought quietly a sufficient number of shares to control the management of the Philadelphia and Trenton road, and, in April, 1836, secured the consolidation of the Philadelphia and Trenton and the Camden and Amboy railroad companies.

  • The final solution of the problem was, after some experimentation, found in the device to control the prices of transportation generally known as the pool.

  • Unscrupulous employers often endeavor to control the votes of their employes.

  • Another investigation was ordered, and this time the company, or rather its directors, found it impossible to control the selection of its members.

  • It is only when effort is frittered away in the feeble dissemination of the guerre-de-course, instead of being concentrated in a great combination to control the sea, that commerce-destroying justly incurs the reproach of misdirected effort.

  • Habits and life-history of California species, with an account of experiments to control the salt-marsh species.

  • Work that is being done in Panama to control the mosquitoes.

  • He is helpless to control the existence of the indications of success.

  • Control the effects of your words, tones, and acts by saying and doing, consciously and intelligently, only what will aid in selling true ideas of your best capabilities.

  • He is utterly unable to control the color of his hair or eyes.

  • You should use the same process as the professional salesman, who works to control the thoughts of his prospect regarding the line of goods presented.

  • A power so external to the true life of the nation, so successfully resisted, so impotent to control the development of the Italians, cannot be chosen as the central point of their history.

  • Neither Pope nor Emperor was strong enough to control the currents of the factions which were surely whirling Italy into the abyss of despotism.

  • It was his business not to control the movements of the army so much as to act as referee in the Pope's interest, and to keep the Vatican informed of what was stirring in the camp.

  • A way had to be devised to control the convention.

  • It is time to emphatically declare the right of the mother to control the functions of her own body for her own good and the welfare of her offspring.

  • They are determined to control the industries, which means control of the governments.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "control the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adapt himself; although there; ambassador from; annual average; cash register; control herself; control himself; control myself; control over; control the; control them; controlling interest; early stage; either actually; fill the; foreign intercourse; hath chosen; hour afterward; little niggers; must give and hazard; other boys; reason from; remembered the; sent ambassadors; shell thin; supreme effort