The people created a government that established its power over a vast empire.

Near Tel Aviv, in adjoining Jaffa, a competing militia under Hassan Salameh, took control.

With the advent of a large degree of self rule in 1964, the government began to assert its control over schooling.

That notion is of a hegemonic Iran that is attempting to dominate the region through an array of Shiite proxies.

In the economists world, morality should not seek to control technology, but should adapt to its demands.

Finally, this perspective assumes that democracies will be willing or able to control radicalism and crack down on extremists.

With popular dissent growing and opposition forces strengthening, the authorities have sought to controll non governmental organizations (NGOs) and strengthen the security forces.

UNMIL deployment is complete, but, its limited mandate undermines the Mission's ability to exert authority throughout Liberia.

Some, including one leading Islamist blogger , called it a miscalculated strategy that helped the Iranian opposition dominate in the virtual realm.

They benefit from the fact that scores of weak states lack the legitimacy or capacity to control their own territory effectively.

Nor do they voice their concern that AFRICOM could be part of an American effort to exert control on West Africa s oil producing countries.

Gazprom s aim is to control not only the gas industry in Georgia, but also the only pipeline that feeds Russian gas to both Georgia and Armenia.

Collaboration implies free will and choice even primate males do not succeed by dominating or controlling females.

And China, seeking to tighten its grip on Tibet, has worked to control the traditional process of finding the reincarnation of any senior lama that passes away.

Following this battle, Milan and the rest of Lombardy were incorporated into the Kingdom of Sardinia, which soon gained control of most of Italy and in 1861 was rechristened as the Kingdom of Italy.

Yet rather than address the front s demands and shape a healthy bilateral relationship between equal countries, Syria has sought to divide the opposition and reassert control.

Eight years and many billions of dollars later, the Pakistani Taliban seized control of the Swat region, terrorizing the adjoining district of Buner and raising alarm and consternation through the rest of Pakistan.

The fact that Tawang, the birthplace of the sixth Dalai Lama and a major monastery of Tibetan Buddhism, lies in Arunachal, deprives China of a vital asset in its attempts to assert total control over Tibet.

Such reforms will enable the Palestinian security institutions to fully discharge their national responsibilities, which include the management of the next legislative elections, the reconstruction of destroyed development sectors, the improvement of the painful humanitarian and social conditions in the Palestinian territories and the strengthening of its control over all Palestinian territories.

Still, it s not over until it s over and in the short term a lot depends on the state s capacity to hold the Swat area and re establish civilian institutions there.

But until the Lebanese state is able to integrate or dominate non state militias, and until some of the raging confrontations in Lebanon s immediate environment are calmed, Lebanon is not likely to know real stability.

Consequently, both the Palestinian Authority and Israel have homework to do the Palestinian Authority has to continue to exert control and authority, while Israel has to strengthen the hand of moderate forces and enable the Authority to impose itself successfully.

The Philippines has effectively lost control of Mindanao, just as Serbia has lost control of Kosovo, yet no one has recognized Mindanao s unilateral declaration of independence.

And, in the denouement, the state loses control of its province as the secessionists declare independence.

For its part, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood s Palestinian branch, seeks to consolidate its control over Gaza and use it as a base from which to take control of the West Bank and the Palestinian national movement.

For it is precept on precept, precept on precept line on line, line on line here a little, there a little.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept line upon line, line upon line here a little, and there a little

Today, China has seized control of a huge swath of local African industries, in the process grabbing their allocated export quotas.

Yet it was never able to use the former to advance the latter.

Yet another totalitarian communism expanded its domination.

Soon after the field was discovered, the Zimbabwean military took control of the area.

And indeed the pope tried to deprive the town of its dominions in northern Sardinia.

Winter 1808 By that time, Russian forces had overrun all of Finland.

The result was a decisive victory for Rome, allowing it to unify Central Italy.

As the Mumbai attack five years ago and the recent LoC incidents have shown, the gap between Pakistan s official statements and its military s actions suggests that the civilian government, even if sincere, is too weak to control its own security apparatus.

In spite of its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Israel continues to illegally occupy or control great expanses of Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese territory, while failing to heed the numerous resolutions of the Assembly and the Security Council demanding the return of those territories.

Saleh won at the time, but today al Ahmar s troops have control.

The Government has made considerable progress in increasing its control over the diamond mining sector.

The Doha agreement might allow a number of months, or years, of relative calm. But until the Lebanese state is able to integrate or dominate non state militias, and until some of the raging confrontations in Lebanon s immediate environment are calmed, Lebanon is not likely to know real stability.

How did Ukraine reach this state of cynicism? A year ago, everyone gathered in the streets of Kyiv knew what we were standing up against a corrupt government that sought to command life and labor, and to dispose of state property, at its will.

Israel has long since decided that it has no interest in renewing its control over the Gaza Strip.

During his rule, opposition to the communist regime increased, and the government lost control of the countryside.

The Palestinian Authority's inability to exercise control over its territory remains a source of great concern.

Revenues from diamond exports have continued to increase as the Government has increased its control over the diamond mining sector.

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