controlling

Example Sentences

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They were still heavily reliant on controlling possession and building from the back, but they switched it up with direct football at times.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

In California and Illinois, legislators in April advanced bills that would cement prohibitions on nonlawyers’ owning or controlling legal practices.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

"For Tehran, controlling the Strait of Hormuz remains one of its trump cards to exert pressure and negotiate" a way out of the conflict, he adds.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

By carefully generating and controlling increasingly complex forms of "squeezing" -- including a fourth-order effect called quadsqueezing -- they have made quantum behaviors accessible that had previously been out of reach.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

Following the implications of the Maya fall, he asked, 'Are contemporary societies any better at controlling the drive toward ever greater use of resources and heavier pressure on the environment?

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann