Control Sentence Examples
I have to learn to control myself.
I can't control it yet.
Yully struggled to control it and then surrendered.
A person couldn't be in control all the time - right all the time.
You've gained some valuable experience about how things can get out of control so quickly.
But he had begun talking, and the more he talked the less could he control his words.
Never in her life had she been so attracted to a man – so totally out of control in his presence.
I took a deep breath trying to control myself.
We had no control over what happened.
Dictators may think they can control information access and technology.
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He had no control of his own powers, and he'd not yet been tested in a confrontation with the man who enslaved him.
She swallowed hard and nodded, struggling to control the strange sense of desire bubbling uncontrolled within her.
But we need only penetrate to the essence of any historic event--which lies in the activity of the general mass of men who take part in it--to be convinced that the will of the historic hero does not control the actions of the mass but is itself continually controlled.
If he had simply ignored her, she might have been able to get her emotions under control, but now a sob threatened so convincingly that she was afraid to breathe.
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Alex liked being in control, and he had none in this situation.
I can control the hunger.
Yully struggled to control the energies into her body, still leery of the invaders.
If women weren't attracted to them, maybe men could control themselves.
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He was in his chair, trying to control his curiosity, but she couldn't let it rest at that.
I knew I was losing control and I should have stopped then.
I'd only need to close one to control their entrance into this world.
She let up on the accelerator long enough to gain control of the vehicle.
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She was a proud woman, one who didn't like being out of control.
He caught a glimpse of Rissa through the melee and wrestled the horse for control.
Autocrats can hold power indefinitely if they control the media, the military, business, the money, and information.
But her mouth took control again.
She could neither control her body's reaction to it nor satiate it.
In town doing traffic control, I guess.
What would trusting a real mind control expert get him?
He'd managed to control his magic for a while now, but he had to stay calm.
He'd lost her as soon as he finally won her, all because he couldn't control the spells he still suffered from his years in slavery.
She had to regain control.
Why had they allowed themselves to completely lose control?
It wasn't that I didn't know when things started getting out of control.
Anyway, I was doing my best not to let things get out of control.
When he didn't respond, I added, She'll have a hell of a headache but you guys both have some bridges in need of serious damage control.
She couldn't tell if he were doing it on purpose or simply had no control.
It's the same thing you do to change an object into another, only normal objects have far less energy to control.
She tested it as she walked to see how much effort it would take to control.
Yully let the power fill her and mix with the other energies, staving off panic that there was much more than she could ever control.
She dropped to her knees and sobbed, unable to control her pain and fear.
Damian was not one to lose control.
She'd never seen him not in control.
I'm not yet in control of myself.
He felt both spent and wired, his head too full of memories to control.
Seizing control of himself, Two stepped forward and pushed her back, binding her to the table again.
His gaze was unusually intense as he struggled to control his emotions.
He was there to save your brother when Isac finished and kept him under control using Claire's blood.
If there's one thing I've learned about humans, it's that you can't control them.
He appeared calm and in control again, if not relaxed, with the only three men he'd ever trusted.
There was no way a creature like Darkyn, who valued control over everything, was going to let her talk to Zamon.
She needed control of her own mind back, but the feverish fog was too thick.
But her thoughts were falling under the control of something else.
They were spinning out of control, fed by the direct contact with him and the elusive scent that was making her mouth water.
Any control she had slid away.
Darkyn has been spinning out of control for many years.
The mating bond alone makes it easy for a woman to control her mate.
There were days when you hated the fact you did love her, and there were days when she almost walked away from you for good, because she hated that she couldn't control how she felt, Deidre continued.
We have no control over what the government does.
That's something I have no control over.
Dean asked, trying to control the quiver in his voice.
David Dean, without a remote control, had difficulty with the TV and these two old fogies were out surfing the net like a couple of Silicon Valley youngsters.
Maria has things under control.
Nearly impossible to stop, next to impossible to control.
He needs to learn some control.
At least, he hadn.t been able to control them before meeting Katie.
The helicopter righted itself fast, and she saw the parachute Brady had been trying to release by smashing his fist against the control box in the ceiling.
He feared what it could do, that he couldn't control it.
They used mind manipulation to control you, which wasn't possible with Xander there to protect you.
She was calm and in control once more.
Taran did not understand the need for her to return so soon, but the woman was beyond any man's control.
She had enough strength to control the demon; maybe she could prevent it from escaping to a new host.
It was when her searing body touched his that his control began to slip.
Their petting grew more frenzied, more instinctive, and far from the languid, sensuous control he had intended to use with her.
These are all under the supervision of a state board of control of three members, appointed by the governor, which was created in 1909, and also has control of the finances of the state educational system.
In his case the ancestral hoards were under the control of his mother, the begum of Oudh, into whose hands they had been allowed to pass at the time when Hastings was powerless in council.
But the privileged class alone are eligible to the greatest offices of the state; they have in their hands the exclusive control of the national religion; they have the exclusive enjoyment of the common land of the state - in Teutonic phrase, the folkland.
But whether Helen stays at home or makes visits in other parts of the country, her education is always under the immediate direction and exclusive control of her teacher.
Sauces are ordered separately, as are vegetables, so you may control the portions.
He's always been so alert and in control.
The cool damp cloth did wonders to get her own face back to normal and she finally regained control.
Alex was secretive and he did like to be in control.
Probably because he didn't know how to handle the situation - and Alex always wanted to be in control.
Sometimes she would stop crying for a while, and it seemed that she was gaining control.
Well, if I was in your shoes, I'd see my doctor about some form of birth control.
For a moment she had the shocking realization that the situation was out of control.
You can run away from him, stay in the same relationship, or set your foot down and get things back into control.
She struggled for control, focusing on the road.
The Dark One likes to control those close to him.
I've got it under control.
The urge was beyond her control.
Emotion did have control of her tongue.
It wasn't something either of them wanted to do, but the situation had grown out of control.
Katie would probably say it was the way he took control, but in actuality, it was the confidence he exuded.
Control, if that's your thing.
She wasn't going to make it long here if she lost control.
Everything about the deity screamed careful control.
Rhyn couldn't do what others wanted, not when he couldn't control his own powers.
He tested his ability to control the familiar magic.
You're in complete control of how much I hurt you.
He simply didn't have the control.
Whatever control they hoped to maintain slipped.
He'd never been entrusted with anything to care for, not when he was unable to control his powers.
He certainly didn't seem to have much control, as far as she could tell.
Have you learned some control of that demon power, little brother?
It was very unlike his friend and second-in-command to allow his control to slip in such a drastic way.
She was beyond his control, and so was her choice of whether or not to accept her place.
For a long moment, it was dark and silent, until the interior of the pod lit up with two screens, one displaying the empty space outside and the other displaying a control panel with writing similar to that of the battle planning station.
She rubbed her face and looked at the control panel again.
She didn't have much air left, and she couldn't enable the control panel so she could direct the pod elsewhere.
The communications and control panels were disabled, but I figured out how to engage the shields.
Warmth crawled up her neck with the realization that she had lost control - and Alex had been aware of it.
She fought for control of her breath, but the increased pumping of her heart didn't help.
Whenever she seemed to be getting herself under control, a fresh bout of sobs would begin.
Running from it was probably the worst thing she could do, but panic had set in and her legs were under control of her mind.
They obeyed faster than they ever would a command from the Black God, who still struggled to control his vamps.
Her mind control magic slid around him, ineffective this night.
She couldn't control it, which terrified her.
It is evident that it was originally a goddess who was supposed to be in control of Irkalla, corresponding to Ishtar in control of fertility and vegetation on earth.
The town is under the control of a provost, bailies and council, and, along with Hawick and Selkirk, forms the Hawick (or Border) group of parliamentary burghs.
An agreement was come to by which Francis received patronage for his circle of friends, while Hastings was to be unimpeded in the control of foreign affairs.
In particular that conception which regarded "ambition" as the guiding motive in his career has been dispelled by a more intimate and accurate knowledge of his life; this shows him to have been very little the creator of his own career, which was largely the result of circumstances outside his control, the influence of past events and of the actions of others, the pressure of the national will, the natural superiority of his own genius.
The illumination is intermittent, and appears to be under the control of the insect's nervous system.
She'd felt the same loss of control and fear when first diagnosed as terminal.
She was still in control of herself and her mind.
That was out of our control.
She didn't want to live with someone like Logan, who resented her for something she couldn't control.
Because of her, you can control and channel your power.
I can.t control it, Kris.
You may not have much control over some things.
Unable to understand or control the strange sensations, she tried to help right herself as the hands gripping her ribcage steadied her.
She looked at the control panel, trying to decipher any of the symbols.
The effect slammed her downwards, and the pod spun out of control, head over tail, shaking as it fought gravity.
He opened the communications device and touched two buttons on the flat control panel.
A'Ran took control of the ship, forcing himself to focus.
Kiera asked, trying hard to control the anger building within her.
She found out she's preg—claims he switched her birth control pills or something.
I've got this place under control.
The first was to maintain enough control to avoid crushing them in the heat of passion.
This would take some damage control.
He almost protested, but thought she might want control of when to leave, so let it be.
It was imperative to maintain enough control to keep from hurting or biting her.
Tonight I started to lose control, and panicked.
He needed distance in order to maintain control of the emotions thundering through him.
I have no control over what I do during the full moon, and after, have no memory of my time as a wolf, so I can't answer that.
He needed time to find some control over his emotions.
They released the heartache they had been holding in and were filled with unencumbered passion, melting into each other as they had the first time, but now neither held any secrets, and neither needed to maintain control.
Jackson stood dumbstruck; amazed the newborn possessed such control.
That is something you have no control over.
Sarah immediately ceased thrashing, but Jackson's control took longer.
You seem to have it all in control - both the dairy and the house.
Did it have anything to do with the fact that she would be twenty-one soon, and gain control of her inheritance?
Maybe the goats had some kind of control over commencement of labor.
We've got it all under control, so just relax and get well.
The diversion was helping her get her emotions under control.
She faced him coolly, trying to control her temper.
She fought for control.
Meanwhile, his people acted as the eyes on the ground to the regular military, most of which was exiled overseas after the war to prevent the divided political elite from seizing control of it again.
Elise said nothing else, struggling to control her own emotions.
She stared for a long moment at the net code indicating that the receiver of the general's messages was located in the West Control Center.
Brady felt his control slip a notch.
He had a crowd control baton the size of her hand that expanded with a touch to the thumb pad.
The control panel opened.
She set it on top of the control panel and assessed the results, then activated the generator's artificial intelligence so it would adjust as needed to power the town.
The soldier touched his thumb to the navigation control board.
These keypads control all the military's weapons in the country.
Whoever has them will be able to take control.
Rhyn approached the boundaries of his newest prison – the one meant to keep everyone else on the Caribbean Sanctuary safe from the magic he couldn't control.
Tents had sprung up two nights before, and the two people who could keep his powers from spinning out of control remained at the center of the beach.
As hard as he tried, he had no control over his power without the buffers.
I can't control it.
He's about to lead my demons to the underworld. With the Immortals in disarray and Death's … mistake, I can own the underworld before Rhyn can control his power enough to stop me.
Rhyn clenched his fists. Darkyn said nothing else and walked away, disappearing into the morning shadows of the forest. Rhyn felt fevered. His power was leaking out of his body, killing the plants around him. He grappled to control what he could, aware he would soon not have that option.
He didn't have three more days' worth of control. The idea he'd likely explode before Death delivered Katie made him feel fear, an emotion he hated and hadn't felt until responsible for the life of someone he cared about.
No, I mean, you aren't out of control. How is that?
Power I can't control.
Rhyn does understand, but he can't control what he is. Even if he wanted to do good, he'd fail. He's too weak to control his impulses, Kris.
What if you do succeed in forcing Death's hand and she brings Katie back from the dead? You'd tear the fabric of the universe and invite the demons to take control. She's all that stands between us and them.
He identified himself, and told Mayer everything was under control and he needn't worry.
Here he was, in total control, independent of outside power—only his arms and legs and gravity.
There were some decisions that should be made jointly, and being in control meant taking full responsibility.
Would he continue to consider her input, or would he simply take control?
I'm sick of this male idea that sex is something a man has no control over.
She's had centuries of learning to control it because ultimately she is the one who will suffer for any poor decisions.
He was trying to keep the situation under control – for her sake.
I... lost control, I guess.
She was unable to control the sobs that ravaged her body.
Maybe it was because he was trying to control his emotions, but his kiss was measured.
You want him to make decisions, and he loves being in control.
His voice was even, as if he were having trouble staying in control of his emotions.
Still, she had been welcomed as pest control.
I thought about substituting her birth control pills with something.
Carmen regained control of her gaping jaw.
There is only one method of birth control that sure, and I doubt your husband would tolerate it.
Alex liked to be in control — not of her, but of life in general.
With four days at most remaining in her ability to control the Black God, she suspected she'd be dead in five.
Rissa strained to control her wild desperation.
He sought to control it, not yet trusting the woman in his arms.
The scent of her desire ensnared him, dragged him closer to the edge of his control.
Regaining control of himself, Taran turned to face her without removing his eye-band.
She leaned against a building, struggling for control of herself.
She did not cry long, only until she released enough of her emotions to control the rest.
Some days, this is not much, as the weakness of my forefathers has made it powerful enough to choose its next host and seize control of my body.
They'd truly thought their sacrifices would help their people, that they could control the darkness of the demon.
The demons swam within him, fighting for control of his body.
He was a lucky man – but not because he had a wife who wanted him to be in control, as Katie believed.
Alex did like to be in control, there was no denying that, but he certainly didn't dominate her.
With Alex driving, it felt like he was in control again.
When he had them both under control, he finally turned to her, his brows lowered.
Alex liked to be in full control.
For that amount of time, they would fall back into their old roles, with Alex in control.
Honestly, Carmen, if you don't take a stand, he's going to control you all your life.
Gerald didn't share the desire to control with Alex, though.
I know Alex likes to be in control, but there's a difference between being in control and constantly being responsible.
Maybe so, but I like him being in control, and I think he likes it too.
And yet, Alex still wanted to be in control.
He shouldn't try to control every facet of her life.
Don't act like I'm some kind of control freak.
As suddenly as she lost control, Carmen regained it.
No, actually what this was all about was control.
And yet, if she truly wanted him in control, why wasn't she doing what he recommended?
A little voice deep inside cried that if he couldn't be in control, he would leave her.
This was getting out of control.
Maybe he had decided being in control of the estate was better than having no control in his home.
The situation was out of control and reasoning with him wasn't going to work.
She left the phone on the floor as a reminder to control her temper.
You were in full control and my feelings didn't matter.
It isn't your job to control him.
That man wants to be in control of everything, doesn't he?
Like Alex, he was most comfortable when he was in complete control.
In actuality, he was tired of not being in full control.
In her eagerness to feed his desire to control, she had been willing to give up the independent spirit he found attractive.
Well, I'm the one who decides whether I let darkness control me or I overcome it.
Why did she want him in control – and then not?
The time to take control of her life was long overdue.
Standing her ground was the only way to maintain control.
Men use that excuse as a means of retaining complete control.
His kisses were intoxicating, and this was no place to loose control.
If she was ever going to learn to be totally self sufficient, she was going to have to take control of her life.
It was time to take control.
Well, that would be a little drastic, but it wouldn't hurt us to use some alternate methods to pest control.
You like to do the asking - only you're afraid to take control.
Things were getting out of control.
He couldn't control the surge of adrenaline he experienced whenever he thought of sinking his teeth into his father's neck and draining his life from him, the way his father drained his mother's life.
Pain turned into an emotion almost too strong for him to control.
He slaughters without mercy and control.
Whoever has it will have the power to control you – and your magic.
What would it be like to be around someone completely outside his control?
Xander hated the idea of not being in control.
The guy sounded like a control freak.
The playful challenge in her gaze stirred his competitive edge, the one that didn't lose and hated being out of control.
Of course the control freak would choose a pose where he was holding her down with the sheer size of his body, her hands pinned by her head.
It swallowed her senses, but she wasn't about to lose complete control to someone like Xander.
Jessi fought the sensations, not wanting to lose control, especially to him.
They are close to being equal, with the exception that Jonny is a teenager and can't control his power yet.
He's a control freak.
His mind control attempts against mine, and we had our own agendas.
Unaccustomed to emotions he wasn't able to control, he watched her hips sway but stayed where he was.
Her mind control power was second only to his, and she fought like a warrior.
Jonny was a good kid who had to go bad in order to control the vamps at his disposal and counter the White God's influence.
The physical connection was making it hard to control her emotions and the memory of the other times he'd kissed her.
After all, the power to control a world was at stake.
Xander didn't move, waiting for her to make a decision she had no control over, not with her body and emotions already firmly on his side.
Unable to control her spinning emotions, she clung to him.
He who holds the gem will control the Vamp.
His normally strict control was thin; he hated the feeling.
He was in control – complete control – even when destroying the world.
Unable to find her when she was on stealth mode, he was acutely aware that he had no control over what was going on below.
The flow within him felt so good after the control he normally exerted to rein it in.
Xander's control was slipping again.
I may not control them, but I maintain power over my kind, the way you do over the vamps.
These two, afterwards joined by the primate's old rival Lord Shannon, and usually supported by the earl of Kildare, regained control of affairs in 1758, during the viceroyalty of the duke of Bedford.
Not a soldier himself, he had to control and direct the movements of armies; can we be surprised if he failed, or if he was unable to keep control over the generals or to establish that military co-operation so essential to success?
In 1886 he became proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner, the first of a long chain of papers to come under his control.
By his rigorous imposts he alienated the favour of his subjects, and especially of the clergy, whom he otherwise sought to control firmly.
The West Virginia Colored Orphans' Home near Huntington is not under state control, but has received appropriations from the legislature.
McClellan's forces gained possession of the greater part of the territory in the summer of 1861, and Union control was never seriously threatened, in spite of Lee's attempt in the same year.
Through the columns of the Independent Reflector, which he established in 1752, Livingston fought the attempt of the Anglican party to bring the projected King's College (now Columbia University) under the control of the Church of England.
The council was reduced to four members with a governor-general, who were to exercise certain indefinite powers of control over the presidencies of Madras and Bombay.
The long struggle between the Company and the ministers of the crown for the supreme control of Indian affairs and the attendant patronage had reached its climax.
The conseil colonial, besides its advisory functions, discusses and votes the budget, determines the nature of the taxes, has supreme control over the tariffs, and extensive powers in the administration of colonial domains.
Their absolute freedom from diffraction, the perfect control of the illumination and thickness of the lines, and the accuracy with which it will be possible to construct scales for zone observations will be important features of the new method.
His extreme impecuniosity made him from the first subservient to the Polish senate and nobles (szlachta), who deprived him of the control of the mint - then one of the most lucrative sources of revenue of the Polish kings - curtailed his prerogative, and generally endeavoured to reduce him to a subordinate position.
The wheels symbolize divine omniscience and control, and the whole vision represents the coming of Yahweh to take up his abode among the exiles.
In the charter granted by the Canadian parliament to the Canadian Pacific railway a clause giving it for twenty years control over the railway construction of the province led to a fierce agitation, till the clause was repealed in 1888.
In episcopacy the control of church affairs is almost entirely withdrawn from the people; in congregationalism it is almost entirely exercised by the people; in Presbyterianism it rests with a council composed of duly appointed office-bearers chosen by the people.
The state retained control of the ecclesiastical organization, and Calvin secured his much-needed system of discipline.
More or less closely connected with the Northern Church are the theological seminaries at Princeton, Auburn, Pittsburg (formerly Allegheny - the Western Seminary), Cincinnati (Lane), New York (Union) and Chicago (McCormick), already named, and San Francisco Seminary (1871) since 1892 at San Anselmo, Cal., a theological seminary (1891) at Omaha, Nebraska, a German theological seminary (1869) at Bloomfield, New Jersey, the German Presbyterian Theological School of the North-west (1852) at Dubuque, Iowa, and the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Kentucky, which is under the control and supervision of the northern and southern churches.
In 1896 McCormick Theological Seminary (which in 1858 as New Albany Theological Seminary had come under the control of the assembly) and Auburn Seminary refused to make the changes desired by the General Assembly; a satisfactory arrangement with McCormick was made.
The Ku Klux movement in its wider aspects was the effort of the first class to destroy the control of the second class.
In some communities they fell into the control of violent men and became simply bands of outlaws, dangerous even to the former members; and the anarchical aspects of the movement excited the North to vigorous condemnation.'
The United States Congress in1871-1872enacted a series of "Force Laws" intended to break up the secret societies and to control the Southern elections.
The elections were controlled for a few years, and violence was checked, but the Ku Klux movement went on until it accomplished its object by giving protection to the whites, reducing the blacks to order, replacing the whites in control of society and state, expelling the worst of the carpet-baggers and scalawags, and nullifying those laws of Congress which had resulted in placing the Southern whites under the control of a party composed principally of ex-slaves.
The territories are under the direct control of the national government .
In the national capital and territories it is supervised by a national council of education with the assistance of local school boards; in the 14 provinces it is under provincial control.
It is under the control of the national government, which in 1902 maintained 19 colleges.
Secular education has been vigorously opposed by strict churchmen, and efforts have been made to maintain separate schools under church control.
There are twenty-four districts, each under the control of a directeur, assisted by inspeciors, sub-inspectors and other officials.
There were also a great many schools in the control of various religious congregations, but a law of 1904 required that they should all be suppressed within ten years from the date of its enactment.
The governor is aided by a privy council, an advisory body to which the governor nominates a minority of unofficial members, and a council general, to which is confided the control of local affairs, including the voting of the budget.
In 1849 exclusive Moravian control of Salem's industries and trades was abolished; in 1856 land was first sold to others than Moravians, and in the same year the town was incorporated.
The sympathies of Dinarchus were in favour of an Athenian oligarchy under Macedonian control; but it should be remembered that he was not an Athenian citizen.
In Virgil, Juturna appears as the sister of Turnus (probably owing to the partial similarity of the names), on whom Jupiter, to console her for the loss of her chastity, bestowed immortality and the control of all the lakes and rivers of Latium.
The so-called "Gothenburg System" of municipal control over the sale of spirits was actually devised at Falun as early as 1850.
In the 4th century its political development was arrested by constant struggles between oligarchs and democrats, who in turn brought the city under the control of Sparta (4 12 -395, 39 1 -37 8), of Athens (395-39 1, 37 8 -357), and of 'the Carian dynasty of Maussollus (357-340).
Under the Constitution Act the Commonwealth is given the control of the postal and telegraph departments, public defence and several other services, as well as the power of levying customs and excise duties; its powers of taxation are unrestricted, but so far no taxes Dave been imposed other than those just mentioned.
The two features of the Labour party in New South Wales are its detachment from other parties and the control of the caucus.
The general administration of the Factories and Shops Acts, to which the special boards owe their being, is vested in a chief inspector of factories, subject to the control of the minister of Labour in matters of policy.
The bishop has acquired control of the sacraments, presbyters and deacons acting only under his orders; the episcopate appears as a unit, bishops being bound to respect one another's disciplinary decrees.
While in the interests of his canal Lesseps had resisted the opposition of British diplomacy to an enterprise which threatened to give to France control of the shortest route to India, he acted loyally towards Great Britain after Lord Beaconsfield had acquired the Suez shares belonging to the Khedive, by frankly admitting to the board of directors of the company three representatives of the British government.
Its remoteness from the control of the authority of the German and French kings, together with its inaccessibility, gave special facilities in Lower Lorraine to the growth of a number of practically independent feudal states forming a group or system apart.
Impatient of control and hasty in action, he was no match for his crafty and plotting adversary, Louis XI.
This Committee consists of 75 members, sending representatives to Moscow to the meetings of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Federation of Soviet Republics, but the Turkestan Republic showed itself very little inclined to accept the control which the Central Committee at Moscow endeavoured to maintain.
The Turkestan Committee elects a small council, forming a kind of cabinet and having control of the different branches of the administration.
If, for example, the processus pyramidalis was abnormally small and the processus papillaris abnormally large, it pointed to a reversion of the natural order, to wit, that the servant should control the master or that the son would be above the father.
He still defended the Bohemian national movement, and in one of his writings laid down the principle that nationality was one of the interests outside the control of the state.
There was nothing in the Reformation to appeal to him, except the repudiation of papal control; and he was one of those numerous Englishmen whose views were faithfully reflected in the Six Articles.
When the Whigs secured a momentary control of the state legislature in 1849 they sent Seward to the United States Senate.
He also negotiated treaties for the purchase of the Danish West Indies, the Bay of Samana, and for American control of the isthmus of Panama; but these were not ratified by the Senate.
If that authority falls to nothing,"he said," nothing can follow but confusion."The Presbyterians, however, now engaged in a plan for restoring the king under their own control, and by the means of a Scottish army, forced on their policy, and on the 27th of May ordered the immediate disbandment of the army, without any guarantee for the payment of arrears.
Cromwell's religious policy included the maintenance of a national church, a policy acceptable to the army but much disliked by the Scots, who wanted the church to control the state, not the state the church.
On the polar side of the high-pressure area a west wind drift is under the control of the " roaring forties," and on reaching South Africa part of this is deflected and sent northwards along the west coast as the cold Benguella current which rejoins the equatorial.
Hence when useful work can be obtained from a system by simply connecting visible portions of it by a train of mechanism, such energy is more readily recognized than is that which would compel us to control the behaviour of molecules before we could transform it into useful work.
This shows that the principle of the dissipation of energy has control over the actions of those agents only whose faculties are too gross to enable them to grapple individually with the minute portions of matter which are the seat of energy.
To control the speed and Brakes absorb this energy, brakes have to be provided.
Crane brakes are usually under the direct control of the driver, and they are generally arranged in one of two ways.
A father had control over his children till their marriage.
The diaphragms of these are mechanically connected to a small mirror and control its movement in accordance with the strength and direction of the received currents.
This received perforated tape is then used to control what is known as the printer or automatic typewriter, a machine that translates the tape perforations into letters and prints the messages in Roman type in page form.
The telautograph is on a similar principle to the Cowper apparatus, the motion of the transmitting pencil or stylus used in writing being resolved by a system of levers into two component rectilinear motions, which are used to control and vary the currents in two distinct electrical circuits.
Very little new capital was invested by the telegraph companies about 1865 because of the natural reluctance of the companies to extend the systems under their control so long as a proposal for their acquisition by the state was under consideration.
Gisborne for a land line connecting St John's, Newfoundland, and Cape Ray, in the Gulf of St Lawrence, and proceeded himself to get control of the points on the American coast most suitable as landing places for a cable.
The committee was of opinion that the cable should be owned and worked by the governments interested, and that the general direction should be in the hands of a manager in London under the control of a small board at which the associated governments should be represented.
In the case of inland telegraphs and of cable communication with the continent of Europe government control has entirely superseded private companies.
The supreme control was vested in the minister of the Interior.
The mainstay of the Roman military control of Italy first, and of the whole empire afterwards, was the splendid system of roads.
The discords which followed on the break-up of the Carolingian power, and the weakness of the so-called Italian emperors, who were unable to control the feudatories (marquises of Ivrea and Tuscany, dukes of Friuli and Spoleto), from whose ranks they sprang, exposed Italy to ever-increasing misrule.
These magistrates, as we have already seen, were originally appointed to control and protect the humbler classes.
The war against the castles became a war against the palaces; and the system of government by consuls proved inefficient to control the clashing elements within the state.
Invariably a foreigner, elected for a year with power of life and death and control of the armed force, but subject to a strict account at the expiration of his office, the podest might be compared to a dictator invested with limited authority.
But it was now impossible for any German to control the Garden of the Empire.
The British government, which awarded a large annual subsidy to the king and queen at Palermo, claimed to have some control over the administration.
Besides, the Left stood for anticlericalism and for the retention by the State of means of coercing the Church, in opposition to the men of the Right, who, with the exception of Sella, favored Cavours ideal of a free Church in a free State, and the consequent abandonment of state control over ecclesiastical government.
National control of the railways was secured by a proviso that the directors must be of Italian nationality.
It became clear that neither the influence of the regular clergy, of which the Society of Jesus is the most powerful embodiment, nor that of foreign clerical parties, which largely control the Peters Pence fund, would ever permit renunciation of the papal claim to temporal power.
Crispi, burdened by the premiership and by the two most important portfolios in the cabinet, was, however, unable to exercise efficient control over all departments of state.
This chapter does not give the people the right to control taxation.
This chronicler also reports that another committee of thirty-eight members was appointed to assist and control the twenty-five.
These five institutions are under the control of a single board of trustees; the work of the preparatory schools is thus correlated with that of the colleges.
The distinctive task of geography as a science is to investigate the control exercised by the crust-forms directly or indirectly upon the various mobile distributions.
From the descriptive or topographical point of view, geometrical form alone should be con- Land sidered; but the origin and geological structure of forms. land forms must in many cases be taken into account when dealing with the function they exercise in the control of mobile distributions.
Rain is by far the most important of the inorganic mobile distributions upon which land forms exercise their function of guidance and control.
Australia and Polynesia By 87, 000,000 392,000,000 170,000,000 1 43, 000,000 7,000,000 influence of climate, and by the development of trade even to inhabit countries which cannot yield a food-supply, the mass of mankind is still completely under the control of those conditions which in the past determined the distribution and the mode of life of the whole human race.
Limited monarchies are (with the exception of Japan) peculiar to Europe, and in these the degree of democratic control may be said to diminish as one passes eastwards from the United Kingdom.
This is a vaguer form of control than a protectorate, and frequently amounts merely to an agreement amongst civilized powers to respect the right of one of their number to exercise government within a certain area, if it should decide to do so at any future time.
The iris contains a sphincter and a dilator muscle; the former, supplied by branches from the oculomotorius nerve, is under control of the will, whilst the dilator fibres belong to the sympathetic system.
By this time Dozsa was losing control of the rabble, which had fallen under the influence of the socialist parson of Czegled, Lorincz Meszaros.
But he could not always control his followers when their blood was up, and infinite damage was done before he could stop it.
The inhabitants of this region are wild and inhospitable and utterly beyond the control of the Turkish authorities, and navigation of the river between Korna and Suk-esh-Sheiukh is unsafe owing to the attacks of armed pirates.
The fact also that many of the most ancient of these ruins, like Ur, Lagash (Sirpurla), Larsa, Erech, Nippur, Sippara and Babylon, were situated on the banks of the great canals would indicate that the control of the waters of the rivers by a system of canalization and irrigation was one of the first achievements of civilization.
Gorchakov hoped to utilize the complications in such a way as to recover, without war, the portion of Bessarabia ceded by the treaty of Paris, but he soon lost control of events, and the Slavophil agitation produced the Russo-Turkish campaign of 1877-7 8.
Meantime the attempts of the Liberian government to control the Kru coast led to various troubles, such as the fining or firing upon foreign steamships for alleged contraventions of regulations.
It was found that the government by Boule and Ecclesia did not mean popular control in the full sense; it meant government by the leisured classes, inasmuch as the industrious farmer or herdsman could not leave his work to give his vote at the Ecclesia, or do his duty as a councillor.
He advocated (a) alliances with Argos, Thessaly and Macedon, (b) ascendancy in the Aegean (Naxos and Delos), (c) control of the Hellespontine route (Sigeum and the Chersonese), (d) control of the Strymon valley (Mt Pangaeus and the Strymon).
Moreover, the procedure of the Houses practically places the control of legislation in the hands of ministers.
This difficulty is not peculiar to railways; but it was in the history of railway economy and railway control that certain characteristics which are now manifesting themselves in all directions where large investments of fixed capital are involved were first brought prominently to public notice.
Until 1870 railway companies were almost free from special acts of control; and, in general, any company that could raise or borrow the capital was allowed to build a railway wherever it saw fit.
Finally, the legislation of 1888 put into the hands of a reorganized Railway Commission and of the Board of Trade powers none the less important in principle because their action has been less in its practical effect than the advocates of active control demanded.
If the maximum rates were prescribed, as they sometimes were, the limit was placed so high as to be of no practical value for control.
For example, Michigan, in 1837, in the first session of its state legislature, made plans for the construction of 557 miles of railway under the direct control of the state, and the governor was authorized to issue bonds for the purpose.
The commission method of control was not a new one.
In both states, the Commissions have power over electric railways and local public utilities furnishing heat, light and power, as well as over steam railway transportation, and the Wisconsin Commission also has control over telephone companies.
One of the advantages of electric trains on the multiple control system is that they economize terminal accommodation, because they can be driven from either end indifferently, and therefore avoid the necessity for tracks by which engines can change from one end of the train to the other.
The journal of the axle A, is carried in a bearing or axle-box B, which is free to move vertically in the wide vertical slot G, formed in the frame and called generally " the horns," under the control of the spring.
This perfection of distribution is practically attained in present-day practice by the multiple control system of operating an electric train, where motors are applied to a selected number of axles in the train, all of them being under the perfect control of the driver.
Electricity is applied through a separate locomotive attached to the head of the train, or through motor carriages attached either at one end or at both ends of the train, or by putting a motor on every axle and so utilizing the whole weight of the train for traction, all the motors being under a single control at the head of the train, or at any point of the train for emergency.
In Belgium a public company under government control (" Societe Nationale de Chemins de Fer Vicinaux ") does all that in France forms the responsibility of the Ministry of the Interior Belgium.
They are under the control of the Post and Telegraph department, the state issuing loans to encourage the undertakings; the authorities in the provinces and communes also give support in various ways, and under various conditions, to public bodies or private persons who desire to promote or embark in the industry.
These conditions, as well as the degree of control over the construction and working of the lines, are left to the regulation of the provincial governments.
The works were to be operated by the government foi ten years, and the cost assessed against the holders of the land.1 At the conclusion of this period the system was to pass into the control of the landholders, with no further charge by the government.
The control of this institution is vested in a board of regents, chosen by popular vote.
The Republicans, however, secured the electoral votes of Nevada in 1872 and in 1876, and in 1878 were again in full control, only to suffer defeat in 1880.
Put comprehensively, it involves the control of the subsoil and surface waters by drainage, the regulation of rivers and floods, suitable agriculture, the clearing of forests or jungles, which tend to increase the rainfall and keep the ground swampy.
Generally it may be said that throughout his long reign Francis Joseph remained the real ruler of his dominions; he not only kept in his hands the appointment and dismissal of his ministers, but himself directed their policy, and owing to the great knowledge of affairs, the unremitting diligence and clearness of apprehension, to which all who transacted business with him have borne testimony, lie was able to keep a very real control even of the details of government.
In time, notwithstanding a certain inherent individualism and impatience of control, veritable despotisms arose in the Semitic world, although such organizations were invariably liable to sudden collapse as the old forms of life broke down with changing conditions.'
It is uncertain whether Sennacherib invaded Judah again shortly before his death, never,- theless the land was practically under the control of Assyria.
The synagogue had become a firmly established institution, and the personal and social life of the masses had come under the control of communal law.
Pharisaic Judaism, put to the severest test to which a religious system has ever been subject, showed itself able to control and idealize life in all its phases.
While, under the control of Europeans, the Tongans have shown some aptitude for administration, they fail when left to themselves.
The chamber exercises a complete financial control, and no taxes can be imposed without its consent.
The regular authorities sent from Constantinople were wholly unable to control the excesses of the janissaries, who exercised without restraint every kind of violence and oppression.
The management of the road under his control, and especially the sale of $5,000,000 of fraudulent stock in 1868-1870, led to litigation begun by English bondholders, and Gould was forced out of the company in March 1872 and compelled to restore securities valued at about $7,500, 0 00.
It was during his control of the Erie that he and Fisk entered into a league with the Tweed Ring, they admitted Tweed to the directorate of the Erie, and Tweed in turn arranged favourable legislation for them at Albany.
Gould gained control of the Union Pacific, from which in 1883 he withdrew after realizing a large profit.
In 1880 he was in virtual control of Io,000 miles of railway, about one-ninth of the railway mileage of the United States at that time.
It was under his control that the Wabash system became transcontinental and secured an Atlantic port at Baltimore; and it was he who brought about a friendly alliance between the Gould and the Rockefeller interests.
The board of control is composed of the governor, attorney-general and the three railroad commissioners.
The efforts (1712-1721) to foster colonization and commerce through trading corporations established by Antoine Crozat and John Law failed, and the colony soon came again under the direct control of the king.
In 1772 he was appointed by Wesley "general assistant" in charge of the work in America, and although superseded by an older preacher, Thomas Rankin (1738-1810), in 1773, he remained practically in control.
There is British Baluch Baluchistan par excellence, and there is the rest of Baluchistan which exists in various degrees of independence, but is everywhere subject to British control.
The agent to the governor-general of India, with a staff of political assistants, practically exercises supreme control.
The companies gradually undertook the financial control of the districts where they traded and were recognized by the natives as political powers.
The unruly clans which David knew how to control when he was at Ziklag or Hebron were doubtless ready to support the rebellious son.
Palmerston, supported by Russell and well served by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, British ambassador at Constantinople, favoured a more aggressive policy, and Aberdeen, unable to control Palmerston, and unwilling to let Russell go, cannot be exonerated from blame.
His failure to control the theorizers showed Mirabeau, after the removal of the king and the Assembly to Paris, that his eloquence would not enable him to guide the Assembly by himself, and that he must therefore try to get some support.
Webster argued that the Federal Constitution gave to Congress control over interstate commerce, and that any interference .by the legislature of a state with this commerce was unconstitu - tional and void.
The young king took little pains with the government, and the control of affairs was shared between the clerical and peace party led by Richard Fox and Archbishop Warham, and the secular and war party led by Surrey.
The control of the papacy by Charles V., moreover, made it impossible for Wolsey to succeed in his efforts to obtain from Clement VII.
The birthplaces of these persons are still known, and to this day there are sequestered villages, nestling near the western base of the Ghats, which are pointed to as being the ancestral homes of men who two centuries ago had political control over half India.
The three confederates, Sindhia, Holkar and the Bhonsla, concluded peace with the British government, after making large sacrifices of territory in favour of the victor, and submitting to British control politically.
The gaekwar gradually fell under British control towards the close of the 18th century, and his house never engaged in hostilities with the British government.
To Anu was assigned the control of the heavens, to Bel the earth, and to Ea the waters.
By the bill for the incorporation of Alsace and German Lorraine, introduced into the German parliament in May 1871, it was provided that the sole and supreme control of the two provinces should be vested in the German emperor and the federal council until the 1st of January 1874, when the constitution of the German empire was established.
This was an order founded by Albert, 3rd bishop of Riga, in 1201, to serve as an instrument, under his control, for the conquest of the land.
But in 1237 the Knights of the Sword were merged into the Teutonic Order, and Livonia became a province of the Order, with a master of its own under the grand master's control, just as, two years before, the Order had also absorbed the Knights of Dobrzin.
The bishops, now increasingly absorbed in secular affairs, were content with a somewhat theoretical power of control, while the archdeacons rigorously asserted an independent position which implied great power and possibilities of wealth.
The king has been held responsible for the fall of Spain, which was, however, due in the main to internal causes beyond the control of the most despotic ruler, however capable he had been.
The city council appoints an attorney for the corporation, a city engineer, a city clerk, a police justice, a board of fire commissioners and a board of police commissioners, one from each ward, who have control of the fire and police departments, respectively, and a number of other officers.
Vast areas of the country were in fact under the single control of a territorial lord or an ecclesiastical foundation.
No one knows what proportion of the industrial population was included in the organized gilds, or how complete was the control exercised by these bodies over their members.
The great wars of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, which arrested the growth of continental nations, gave England the control of the markets of the world.
A complete restatement could only be undertaken by a group of men, trained in much the same conditions, accustomed to think and work together, each one engaged on a special department, but all acting under the control of one master-mind.
In 1832 he was elected to the state House of Representatives, where, as chairman of a sub-committee, he submitted a report denying the right of Congress to exercise any control over the states.
Lack of central control over the virtually independent communes (over forty thousand in number) led to a sharp rebound under the Convention, when all matters of importance were disposed of by commissioners appointed by that body.
The relations between national and local authorities fluctuated considerably during the Directory; and it is noteworthy that the constitution of December 1799 placed local administration merely under the control of ministers at Paris.
The former of these were designed for the completion of the training of the most promising pupils in the communal elementary schools, and were left to local control or even to management by private individuals.
Far more important, however, were the lycees, where an excellent education was imparted, semi-military in form and under the control of government.
It was designed to control all the educational institutions of France, both public and private; and it did so with two exceptions, the Museum and the College de France.
At a later time he reproached himself for not having dethroned the Hohenzollerns outright; but it is now known that Alexander would have forbidden this step, and that he dissuaded Napoleon from withdrawing Silesia from the control of the House of Hohenzollern.
That compact was not, as has often been assumed, merely the means of assuring to Napoleon the mastery of the continent and the control of a cohort of kings.
The aim in all these changes, it will be observed, was to acquire control over the seaboard, or, failing that, the commerce of all European states.
In the case of King Louis, family quarrels embittered the relations between the two brothers; but it is clear from Napoleon's letters of November - December 1809 that he had even then resolved to annex Holland in order to gain complete control of its customs and of its naval resources.
He was transferred to the sinecure office of the Duchy of Lancaster, but held it only till Nov., when, on the appointment of a small war committee of the Cabinet from which he was excluded, he resigned, being unwilling to accept a position of general responsibility for war policy if he had no effective control.
Be that as it may, he declares that characters drawn from the sternum or the pelvis - hitherto deemed to be, next to the bones of the head, the most important portions of the bird's framework - are scarcely worth more, from a classificatory point of view, than characters drawn from the bill or the legs; while pterylological considerations, together with many others to which some systematists had attached more or less importance, can only assist, and apparently must never be taken to control, the force of evidence furnished by this bone of all bones - the anterior palatal.
During his brief administration Vitellius showed indications of a desire to govern wisely, but he was completely under the control of Valens and Caecina, who for their own ends encouraged him in a course of vicious excesses which threw his better qualities into the background.
There is a tradition that Venice was founded by "consuls from Padua"; and Padua claimed complete control of the course of the Brenta down to its mouth at Malamocco.
The governor's control over appointments was strengthened by the constitution of 1851 and by the subsequent creation of statutory offices, boards and commissions, but the right of veto was not given to him until the adoption of the constitutional amendments of 1903.
Interested cliques could control the business of the town-meeting in ordinary times, and boisterousness marred its democractic excellence in exciting times.
Large sums were voted loosely, and expended by executive boards without any budgetary control.
The creation of the state commissions, independent of the city's control, but able to commit the city indefinitely by undertaking expensive works and new debt, was resented.
There are no municipal lighting-plants; but the companies upon which the city depends for its service are (with all others) subject to the control of a state commission.
About a third of its revenue goes for such uses or for Suffolk county expenditures over which it has but limited control.
Most remarkable of all, the Roman Catholic churches, in this strong, hold of exiled Puritanism where Catholics were so long under the heavy ban of law, outnumber those of any single Protestant denomination; Irish Catholics dominate the politics of the city, and Protestants and Catholics have been aligned against each other on the question of the control of the public schools.
In 1805 Boston began the export of ice to Jamaica, a trade which was gradually extended to Cuba, to ports of the southern states, and finally to Rio de Janeiro and Calcutta (1833), declining only after the Civil War; it enabled Boston to control the American trade of Calcutta against New York throughout the entire period.
The subsequent decline of Athenian land-power had the effect of weakening this new connexion; at the time of the Peloponnesian War Phocis was nominally an ally and dependent of Sparta, and had lost control of Delphi.
The seed was saved and gave rise to a row of plants all of which grew healthily in an infected field, whereas 95% of ordinary Sea Island cotton plants from seed from a non-infected field planted alongside as a control were killed.
He opposed the suggested Federal control of food and fuel.
The rest of the original Manchurian system (1088 miles) remains under Russian control.
Thence eat E min-ting and to Niu-chwang, and the link between Sin-min-ting and Mukden is also under Chinese control, The lines now under Russian control were laid down, and remain, on the 5 ft.
It is either set in the first instance at some distance from the engine and well, or is subsequently removed sufficiently far away before the drill enters the oil-bearing formation, and until the oil and gas are under control, in order to minimize the risk of fire.
The throttle-valve is opened or closed by turning a grooved vertical pulley by means of an endless cord, called the telegraph, passing round another pulley fixed upon the " headache-post," and is thus under the control of the driller working in the derrick.
Strong generals were needed in the separate divisions of the empire, and these, as has always been the case in Eastern empires, made themselves independent in their spheres of command, because there was no organization to keep them together under a single control.
But the real menace to the Latin kingdom lay in northern Syria; and here a power was eventually destined to rise, which outstripped the kings of Jerusalem in the race for Cairo, and then - with the northern and southern boundaries of Jerusalem in its control - was able to crush the kingdom as it were between the two arms of a vice.
The Tell el-Amarna Letters (15th century B.C.) show Syria held in part by Egyptian viceroys, who are much preoccupied with southward movements in the Buka'a and the rest of the interior beyond their control, due to pressure of Amorite peoples, and of the Mitanni and the Kheta, whose non-Semitic blood was mingled with that of the Aramaeans even in Palestine.
The brandydrinking habit, which, when the imperial government assumed control of the administration in 1884, threatened the existence of the nation, has been very largely checked.
The subjection of Basutoland to the control of the Cape government had by this time proved unsatisfactory, both to the Basuto and to Cape Colony.
After the downfall and murder of Stilicho (408), the result of palace intrigues, the emperor was under the control of incompetent favourites.
During the Sicilian war against Sextus Pompeius in 36, Maecenas was sent back to Rome, and was entrusted with supreme administrative control in the city and in Italy.
When a current is passed through the coil it rotates in the field and displaces the index over the scale against the control of a spiral spring like the hairspring of a watch.
In the use of ammeters in which the control is the gravity of a weight, such as the Kelvin ampere balances and other instruments, it should be noted that the scale reading or indication of the instrument will vary with the latitude and with the height of the instrument above the mean sea-level.
Provincial governors were kept under strict supervision; extortion was practically unheard of; the jus Latii was bestowed upon several communities; special officials were instituted for the control of the finances; and the emperor's interest in provincial affairs was shown by his personal assumption of various municipal offices.
Nevertheless, not being a regicide, he was not appointed to be one of the five Directors to whom the control of public affairs was entrusted after the coup d'etat of Vendemiaire 1795; but, as before, his powers of judgment and of tactful debating soon carried him to the front in the council of Five Hundred.
The missionary movement which until his day had been almost independent of control, largely carried on by schismatic Irish monks, was brought under the direction of Rome.
The native archaeologists of the present day hold a recognized position in the scientific world; the patriotic sentiment of former times, which prompted their zeal but occasionally warped their judgment, has been merged in devotion to science for its own sake, and the supervision of excavations, as well as the control of the art-collections, is now in highly competent hands.
It was to their control over the machinery of law that the Eupatridae owed their predominance.
Assisted no doubt by their judicial control, the Eupatridae also tended to become sole owners of the land, reducing the original freeholders or tenants to the position of serfs.
The Delian confederacy lay completely under Athenian control, and the points of strategic importance were largely held by cleruchies (q.v.; see also Pericles) and garrisons.
As in his active career he had wrought organic changes in the ordering, direction and control of fleets, so by his historic studies, pursued after his retirement, he helped greatly to effect, if he did not exclusively initiate, an equally momentous change in the popular, and even the professional, way of regarding sea-power and its conditions.
Under this code a Board of Education, consisting of 15 members appointed by the Common Pleas judges, took control.
Meanwhile Ferdinand had also restored to Diego Columbus, son of the discoverer, the privileges of his father, including the control of the islands of Haiti and Porto Rico.
In 1536 legislation for changing the method of general government and regulating common pasturages and public property caused extreme dissatisfaction, but for many years thereafter the form of control alternated between alcaldes selected by the inhabitants and annual governors appointed by the Council of the Indies.
Its political leaders in the House of Delegates are restive under the control exercised by the Executive Council, but an attempt to hold up necessary appropriations resulted in the passage in July 1909 of an act continuing the appropriations of the previous year, whenever for any cause the lower house fails to pass the necessary financial legislation.
The physical conditions under which polymorphous modifications are prepared control the form which the substance assumes.
He may have belonged to the people known as the Kassites who at the beginning of the 18th century B.C. entered Babylonia from Elam, and obtained control of the Euphrates valley.
The people sigh under the burden imposed, and call upon the goddess Aruru to create a being who might act as a rival to Gilgamesh, curb his strength, and dispute his tyrannous control.
In the case of certain provinces, possibly in the empire generally, Alexander established a double control.
How anxious the Pergamene kings, with their ardent Hellenism, were to avoid offence is shown by the elaborate forms by which, in their own capital, they sought to give their real control the appearance of popular freedom (Cardinali, Regno di Pergamo, p. 281 seq.).
An alternative route went from the Indian ports to the Persian Gulf, and thence found the Mediterranean by caravan across Arabia from the country of Gerrha to Gaza; and to control it was no doubt a motive in the long struggle of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid houses for Palestine, as well as in the attempt of Antiochus III.
Its control of the Aegean was, however, contested not without success by the Antigonids, who won the two great sea-fights of Cos (c. 256) and Andros (227), and wrested the overlordship of the Cyclades from the Ptolemies.
Another, Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), who was, with one interval, a member of parliament from 1780 to 1818, and for a few months during 1806 and 1807 president of the board of control and first lord of the admiralty, is perhaps more famous as a book-collector than as a statesman; he bequeathed his large and valuable library to the British Museum.
He was entirely under the influence of his favourite, Alvaro de Luna, till his second wife, Isabella of Portugal, obtained control of his feeble will.
The club has control over all the shows held in the.
The movement, which is no longer exclusively under the control of Friends, is rapidly becoming one of the chief means of bringing about a religious fellowship among a class which the organized churches have largely failed to reach.
At first the mullah's influence was exerted for good, and he kept the tribes over whom he had control at peace.
From 1884 to 1898 the protectorate was attached for administrative purposes to Bombay, and was immediately dependent on Aden; in the last-named year it was transferred to the Foreign Office, and in 1905 passed under the control of the Colonial Office.
From Calgary to Edmonton northward runs a line under the control of the Canadian Pacific railway.
The control now exercised by the French over the greater part of the western Sudan has deprived Morocco of its chief sources of supply.
The complete control of the seaboard by European powers has rendered the smuggling of slaves to Arabia and Persia a difficult and dangerous occupation.
The first sheet of a roll was named the last, Under the Romans, the former bore the name of the comes largitionum, who had control of the manufacture, with the date and name of place.
So complete was their control that they are estimated to have derived from it more than 200 millions sterling while it lasted.
This is under the control of the corporation.
These mines divide with the Sicilian mines the control of the sulphur market of the world.
In 1904 a state oyster commission was created to supplant the independent control by the parishes.
Since that time conditions of health in New Orleans have been revolutionized (in 1907 state control of maritime quarantine on the Mississippi was supplanted by that of the national government), and smaller cities and towns have been stimulated to take action by her example.
The parishes retain primary control of the schools.
State convicts, and all places in which they are confined or employed, are under the supervision of a Board of Control appointed by the governor.