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Example sentences for "gain control"

  • The English, then, had a more promising navy and a more prosperous trade than the French, and were therefore able to gain control of the seas and to bear the expense of war.

  • For the student-teacher, the study of general method will involve a detailed investigation of how the child is to gain control of social experiences as outlined above, and how the teacher may bring about the same through instruction.

  • In addition to General Method, the student-teacher must study each subject of the curriculum from the standpoint of its use in setting problems, or lessons, which shall enable the child to gain control of a richer experience.

  • Satan “works with all deceivableness of unrighteousness” to gain control of the children of men; and his deceptions will continually increase.

  • Their predictions that religious intolerance would gain control in the United States, that church and state would unite to persecute those who keep the commandments of God, have been pronounced groundless and absurd.

  • Through defects in the character, Satan works to gain control of the whole mind, and he knows that if these defects are cherished, he will succeed.

  • God never forces the will or the conscience; but Satan’s constant resort—to gain control of those whom he cannot otherwise seduce—is compulsion by cruelty.

  • The new party is organizing in from three to four hundred constituencies, and at the next general election is not unlikely to gain control of the political balance of power.

  • It is not only desire to escape oppression that actuates the lower classes of Jews, but desire to gain control--for the spirit of mastery pulses strong within them.

  • For this reason, in the period with which we are now concerned the region of the present Hankow was several times the place of origin of great risings whose aim was to gain control of the whole of the southern empire.

  • All were striving to gain control of the government, and all were engaged in mutual hostilities from about 180 onwards.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accusation against; because the; both numbers; died about; gain ground; gain possession; gain the; gain their; gain time; gained over; gained the; gainful occupations; high tide; machine guns; mighty host; more especially; mother darling; normal condition; officer came; perfecting holiness; railway station; second time; sheet iron; terra cotta; thou wishest; took little