control the affairs of
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If you decide to give temporary guardianship of your child over to another person, you are allowing another party to protect and control the affairs of your child.
From Encyclopedia.com • Jun. 12, 2018
Man may discriminate, but nature and the laws that control the affairs of men will not and cannot.
From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by Grayson, David
The man whose business it is as Executive Officer to control the affairs of close on a thousand of his fellow men must of necessity sometimes learn curiously intimate details of their lives.
From A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions by Bartimeus
More than scholarship is needed to direct and control the affairs of men.
From A Broader Mission for Liberal Education Baccalaureate Address, Delivered in Agricultural College Chapel, Sunday June 9, 1901 by Worst, John H. (John Henry)
It is simply out of the question to control Base Ball as one would control the affairs of a department store.
From Spalding's Official Baseball Guide - 1913 by
