Example sentences of "[verb] control [prep] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the announcement that the NSF would contest the free elections scheduled for April was greeted with consternation in many quarters , opponents depicting it as a ploy by communists to retain control of the country . |
| 2 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 3 | It was reported on March 10 that fresh charges had been filed against Enrile which accused him of attempting corruptly to seize control of the country 's coconut industry . |
| 4 | Ershad met with senior Army officers who informed him that they were unwilling to step in and take control of the country . |
| 5 | In these colourful tales , which we might almost believe were collected from early copies of ancient Israelite boys ' comics , Samson wages a one-man war against the Philistines , who are represented as having control of the country . |
| 6 | President Joseph Saidu Momoh was reported to have fled to neighbouring Guinea on April 30 after mutinous soldiers said that they had seized control of the country . |
| 7 | A military junta , the National Peace-Keeping Assembly ( NPA ) , took control of the country , giving political corruption as the main justification for their action . |
| 8 | Had Ras Makonnen lived he would have assumed control of the country when Menelik was incapacitated , and as his cousin would undoubtedly have succeeded him . |
| 9 | On May 1 Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser was named as chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) , the body which had assumed control of the country after a successful coup against President Joseph Momoh on April 30 [ see pp. 38552-54 ] . |
| 10 | News of the coup was first broadcast on Army Television Channel 5 when Gen. Sunthorn announced that a National Peace-Keeping Council ( NPKC ) had taken control of the country in order to preserve the democratic system . |
| 11 | Iraq pushes its forces into Kuwait and swiftly gains control of the country , claiming to have been invited in by Kuwaiti revolutionaries . |
| 12 | No one group has established control over the country . |
| 13 | The army 's deployment in the south was part of the government 's attempts to reassert control over the country under the terms of the Arab League-sponsored Taif peace accords [ see pp. 36986 ; 37928 ] . |
| 14 | There was no mention in the treaty , however , either of the estates in Scotland granted to English lords by Edward I and lost as Bruce gained control of the country , or of the Scottish lands held by Anglo-Scottish lords such as the Earl of Angus and forfeited when they adhered to the English cause . |