Next came the enlisted man who had stood at the controls on the bridge, and finally the Captain himself.
March saw that one of the men at the controlswas steadying another while he lighted a cigarette.
At a word from the Captain, the executive officer began barking orders to the crew and to the enlisted men who stood at the controls on the bridge.
March tried to picture Scoot slipping into trousers and shirt, climbing into the plane’s cockpit, feeling for the switches and controlsin the dark.
Here was a real control room, withcontrols and periscopes complete.
The controls flew from his hands and his head hit the top of his cockpit.
But I’d like another trip or two in the torpedo room, and I want to be at the diving controls for a crash dive before I’ll feel sure of myself.
He asked for more time at the diving controls and got it.
March shouted the alarming news into the interphone, ordered the man at the controls to reverse engines full-speed and put her over hard starboard.
March knew that the controls were electrically operated by the wheel and thus easy to handle.
If I know myself, I know that no unjust or unmanly prejudice warps my judgment or controls my action on any matter of legislation affecting the colored race on this continent.
The government also has attempted to reduce price controls and subsidies.
Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the strict social, political, and economic controls of the Communist period.
Government price controls and subsidies have been steadily dismantled.
Then again, in order to get the best work from his firearms and have his hands free, he knew he should fix matters so he could drop the controls and pay strict attention to his other job.
Controls are seldom needed for this disease in forest stands.
Controls to combat this disease generally involve sanitary measures aimed at the beetles.
Sokolski checked out the master controls on the data board and nodded.
The instant M-11 ceased functioning, the other two servomechs were automatically activated to cover that section of the controls with which M-11 was normally integrated.
The moment to moment operation of the controls occupied only a small portion of his vast electrical innards.
At thecontrols Vidac gripped the acceleration lever and called into the intercom, "Stand by for touchdown.
Seated at the controls of the jet boat, Tom pressed down on the acceleration pedal, sending the tiny ship rocketing out of the Polaris like a projectile.
The study of nature shows us that the higher form of intelligence controls the lower.
It digests your meals; assimilates and eliminates; repairs wastes; works the heart and controls the circulation; heals wounds and presides over all other natural and involuntary processes in the body.
Hence you see your mind controls and forms your body.
We can even pick out the little patch which controls so small a part of the body as the thumb or the eyelids.
We also know that a certain rather small strip of the upper brain-surface, or cortex, about the size of two fingers, running upward and backward from just above the ear, controls the movements of the different parts of the body.
A cerebral conscious voluntary mechanism which controls phonation either alone or associated with articulation.
The speech zone of the left hemisphere directly controls the centres in the medulla oblongata that preside over articulation and phonation; innervation currents are represented by the arrows coming from the higher to the lower centres.
The nations will at last attain firm friendship one with another in the day when a common moral will controls the scope of public things.
One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
In cases dependent upon diseased conditions in the oesophagus or elsewhere the character of the disease controls the prognosis, both immediate and ultimate.
He controls their destiny and is interested in their very flight.
My controls tell me that terrible punishment awaits selfish souls on the other side.
My controls tell me that many spirits cannot manifest at all, just as many humans cannot serve as mediums.
John outruns Peter, stoops down and looks into the sepulchre; but that species of reticence which always appears in him controls him here--he hesitates to enter the sacred place.
Dorothy as she strained her ears to catch every word, while she watched the controls and saw how the plane reacted to their manipulation by her instructor.
Also don't forget that until the wings pass an angle of bank of 45 degrees your controls are not inverted and must be handled as in a normal turn.
Anything longer not only hampers a pilot, it catches the wind and is likely to get caught around your stick or other controls and crash the plane.
These she dropped in the cabin, saw to it that the door was properly fastened, then took her place at the controls forward.
The government also has attempted to reduce price controls and subsidies, but economic growth has remained sluggish.
The treasurer controls the finances of the whole province, receiving the taxes and paying the salaries of the officials.
The viceroy controls the military and the salt tax; the governor the civil service generally.
In these compartments are placed all the machinery and the controls for operating the submarine.
In the balance chamber is the mechanism that controls the steering and the diving rudders, and it is these that keep the torpedo on a straight course and at the right depth under the water.
The difference of expansion between the two rods is utilized to operate a valve which controls the supply of gas to the lamp.
It still stands at the head of the newspaper press of the world, and we are justified in believing that it will continue to stand there as long as its founder's hand controls it.
He controls the Hudson River, Harlem, and New York Central Roads, and is largely interested in many others.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "controls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
