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
A committee is appointed to control the affairs of the union, and officials to carry out its wishes.
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)
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 hard enough for those who control the affairs of men, always to obey God and their own consciences, without seeking occasions to violate their faith.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore
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
