Control everybody? Develop a skill? Give up? Smoke a cigarette?

Action gives us a sense of control, and helps us bear our fear.

Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, retains control of Iraq s largely ceremonial presidency.

It takes control of these cells, turns them into virus making factories, and they all burst, a huge, extended bacteria family, all dying with viruses spilling out of their guts, the viruses taking over the bacterium.

Capitalism is, among other things, a struggle between individual people over the control of scarce resources.

On 10 July 1945, US forces left the Saar area and French troops established their occupational administration.

According to reports, the militants held the western part of the city, while the east was controlled by government forces.

Women do have some common interests, especially with regard to controlling their own reproductive decisions and protecting themselves against sexual exploitation and rape.

The Committee has a double majority voting procedure designed to ensure that neither donors nor recipients may dominate decision making.

Under regional and international pressure, the Saudi ruling family has constructed a Potemkin village of reform while retaining absolute control over all political developments.

Strong leadership also is needed to protect the interests of the five states in which the opposition has now won control for the first time.

She remained, to the end, hostile to central bank independence, regularly rejecting the advice of her chancellors to allow the Bank of England to control interest rates.

Military leaders, who had either orchestrated or condoned the murders, moved in to cancel the election and retain control of the Government.

The three ones principle provides a framework for addressing this, with an important emphasis on national ownership.

Chinese rulers, to this day, have been obsessed with central control, continental unity, and social harmony that is, a society without political conflict.

First, massive renationalization since 2004 has left state owned companies once again controlling the commanding heights of the economy.

At the same time, the Khmer Rouge retreated west, and it continued to control certain areas near the Thai border for the next decade.

Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 0.2 to 1.7 million years ago (Mya).

The three ones principle provides a framework for addressing this, with an important emphasis on national ownership.

In the 8th century, estrangement between the Italians and the Byzantines allowed the Lombards to capture the remaining Roman enclaves in northern Italy.

The longer this persists, the harder it will be for politicians to maintain control of their countries destinies and that of Europe s collective enterprise.

As a result, New England Ranger John Gorham demanded to take control of Grand Pré after the first siege in 1744 and again after the second.

Many years ago, when I was a young congressman, I spent an awful lot of time dealing with the challenge of nuclear arms control the nuclear arms race.

Khamenei, the supreme leader, has succeeded in politicizing the Shiite clerical establishment, primarily by controlling the financial resources of the religious authorities and Shiite institutions in Iran and the region.

The fact that so many problems persist despite tens of billions of dollars of assistance and years of effort is a sad reminder that aid can allow governments to undertake foolish investments that accomplish little, or can easily be siphoned off by corrupt officials. Moreover, aid is inherently uncertain, leaving Africans at the mercy of outside forces beyond their control.

Nevertheless, if implemented, Sharon's proposal would leave them in control of about 99 percent of the Gaza Strip and roughly 50 percent of the West Bank.

He had probably been with the Great Heathen Army, descended on the continent, and became a vassal of the emperor Charles the Fat, controlling most of Frisia between 882 and 885.

Enabling approaches must also allow women to control their sexual and reproductive lives as well as to exercise a broader range of political, economic, social and cultural rights.

The view was expressed that further thought should be given to the question of whether the second part of draft article 1 (f)(ii) with respect to exclusive control was necessary.

This conveniently allows the authorities to control news programming with an iron hand while relegating the bulk of programming to a looser and less labor intensive monitoring system.

A lock is a programming language construct that allows one thread to take control of a variable and prevent other threads from reading or writing it, until that variable is unlocked.

Armed groups view conflict as a continuum of political and violent irregular operations over a long period that will provide control over local populations.

8. Don t ask the impossible. Recommending measures that the public cannot implement creates a sense of futility, not a sense of control.

While the military junta has since kept control over the executive branch of government, its head, Salou Djibo, appointed a civilian, Mahamadou Danda, as prime minister.

This much is clear Syrian President Bashar al Assad and his Alawite Shia power base will not be able to maintain control against the Sunni majority in the country and the region as a whole.

Most telling is that Britain, which retained control of its currency, enjoys the lowest yields in its history, while the risk premium on Spanish bonds is at a new high.

Network Solutions retained control of the .com registry, whereas we created a competitive market for the reseller business whereby registrars sold names directly to users.

In his Jerusalem address, he reaffirmed America s commitment to preserving Israel s security while pledging to control Syria s chemical weapons stockpile and to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

In July, Abe s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won control of both houses of parliament a resounding electoral victory that amounts to the strongest political mandate any Japanese leader has received in many years.

Kurds had the highest perception of control and optimism, with 19 indicating the highest level of control over their lives and 17 the greatest degree of hope in the future.

The Kurds in the north cleverly and adeptly used the window of opportunity that opened before them to seize de facto independence, though the key question of control over the northern city of Kirkuk remains a ticking time bomb.

Similar quick impact measures should be undertaken to control disease. Small rural clinics can be built or rebuilt very quickly, within the first year of peace.

Palestinians took charge of the most densely populated urban areas, while Israel maintained total military and administrative control over the largest territory, Area C, which makes up 61 of the West Bank.

While several countries established legal limits to control spending, deficits, and debt, in some cases for example, Argentina, Ecuador, and Venezuela such laws were not enforced.

Coming before the Indian elections, it was meant to set India and Pakistan against each other, allowing the Islamist influence in Pakistan at least to survive or at most to gain control of the State.