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Sentence count:162+8Posted:2016-07-17Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: in checkin restraintSimilar words: controlout of controlcontrol groupbeyond controlcontroversycontroversialon the contraryunderMeaning: adv. unable to act freely. 
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(91) Surely she could keep her emotions under control until then?
(92) During the eighteenth century the irregular Cossack hosts were gradually brought under control and absorbed into the regular army.
(93) Centennial Hall ought to get its sound thing under control before his concert.
(94) The bugle sounded the charge; the horsemen's pace increased, but remained all the while under control.
(95) The thieves were kept under control because the organizers had evidence which could get them convicted.
(96) The political turbulence that followed the Civil War was only brought under control by Cromwell's benevolent dictatorship.
(97) It was like when she was eight, and Dead Daddy put her on Hero-9 to keep her under control.
(98) Organisationally, the investigation was under control and for the moment the focal point was Farnborough.
(99) Thus, setting annual targets for M3 would lead directly to bringing inflation under control.
(100) Moffett sought to reassure investors that the company had social issues under control.
(101) Such advise fills up too many books of quality management and creates the illusion that something is under control.
(102) Only 0. 5 percent of their white counterparts were similarly under control of the criminal justice system,[sentencedict.com] it said.
(103) Good for utility lawns and keeping rough grass under control.
(104) The fire brigade soon got the conflagration under control.
(105) The birth rate is under control in this country.
(106) Sonny's heavy Cupid face was under control.
(107) Furthermore, the birth rate has been put under control.
(108) Meekness is not weakness. It is power under control.
(109) So Rebecca, during her stay at Queen's Crawley , made as many friends of the mammon of unrighteousness as she could possibly bring under control.
(110) To quiet or bring under control by physical force or persuasion; make tractable.
(111) You can hear the downside of all this on Sade's 2002 live album, "Lovers Live, " where the background singers and horns keep things under control.
(112) Traces connecting such signals should be kept as short as possible and be adjacent to the ground plane to keep radiation and crosstalk under control.
(113) Perhaps I'll jam up my freak-out dials sometime soon, but I seem to have it under control at the moment, even as we enter the busy Fall.
(114) I would say the following; this government has done more than any previous Israeli government to bring under control settlement construction in the West Bank," said Mark Regev,[Sentence dictionary] Mr. Olmert's spokesman.
(115) The text focuses on the detriment of the illegally manipulation over the dealing in securities and analyses how to keep it under control to the smallest degree possible through law.
(116) Lawmakers in both countries say the actions were necessary to bring under control spiraling addiction and a notoriously shady business.
(117) If you try to keep him under control and tethered to your apron strings there will almost certainly be a row.
(118) These verbs are compared as they mean to hold back or keep under control.
(119) During his first press conference, Scranton essentially reiterated what officials at Metropolitan Edison, the owners of Three Mile Island, had told him: "Everything is under control.
(120) In the past it has been a gentlemen's agreement: keep your words under control, and we'll keep the papers – both legal and tabloid – off your doorstep.
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