Droukdel - isolated and marginalized - struggled to exert control over his southern commanders.
I, for one, never knew that a network could exert control over a game.
The move is being seen as an attempt by Mr Hadi to exert control over the armed forces.
Thus a win by Mr Yushchenko would have been a huge blow to Mr Putin, whose attempts to exert control over former Soviet states would be greatly diminished.
However, the true source of authority at any point in time only uses these structures as conduits for the leaders of the dominant member firms to exert control over weaker firms.
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And so, unlike Israel, there is no reason to believe that Jordan will not cut a deal with Hamas in Judea and Samaria that will enable the group to continue to exert control over the Palestinians and threaten Israel.
But over the past year or so Twitter has looked to exert greater control over its user base as it has introduced advertising on its site.
Pakistan helped create the Taliban in the 1990s to try to exert some control over Afghanistan.
One reason is that Yemen's government can exert little control over some of its remote and lawless regions.
Because we want to emphasize that we will not allow anybody to exert their control over any part of Iraq.
This year's unanticipated slowdown reinforced what most Asian governments already know: they cannot exert total control over their economic future.
The trouble began when opposition deputies accused supporters of President Evo Morales of trying to exert undue control over the judiciary.
He had tried to exert full control over Iridium's loose confederation of marketing partners, publicly sniping at the competence of its regional distributors.
Some observers say their influence is now on the wane, adding that this has allowed the state to exert greater control over the press.
But it could also be that the move towards open mobile presents new opportunities for Chinese companies to exert the control over innovation they crave.
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Lucid dreaming refers to the ability to become aware during a dream that you are in fact, dreaming, and being able to exert some control over what happens in the dream.
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The country's currency system goes back many years, and was imposed at a time when the government wanted to exert more control over the economy amid an unsuccessful bid to introduce socialist policies.
In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called on Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to match his promises of a cease-fire with "action on the ground" and exert greater control over militant Palestinian factions.
With traffic and traffic lights there to confound smooth progress, putting a foot down when the road does finally open up is one of the few ways an urban driver can exert some control over a journey.
In that climate of uncertainty the U.S. Agency for International Development opted for a cost-plus, fixed-fee deal--a contract often used by governments to exert some control over costs and give the contractor incentive to engage in open-ended work.
In truth, the president has been chipping away at individual Iranians' autonomy ever since he came to power, as each internal palpitation and outside threat becomes a pretext for the country's security chiefs to exert more control over the people.
During the initial reaction to a PR crisis, it is vitally important to ensure that, although it is a challenge in the Internet age to exert any control over the general discourse, communications within your sphere of influence are tightly controlled.
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At its best, the battery is rated to last 3.7 hours -- not bad for a 13.34 8.39-pound system -- and you can exert some control over the runtime by selecting from one of four power modes using an analog dial.
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In some Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, changes on the ground suggest that radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is trying to exert greater control over his followers in the Mahdi army, which has been widely accused of sectarian killings in the past two years.
The news arrives amid speculation that Facebook, facing new pressure as a public company, will need to develop fresh sources of mobile revenue and exert greater control over its mobile products as users spend more time networking on phones or tablets instead of laptops or desktops.
In contrast, sports entertainment executives exert much less control over their product, at least the on-the-court (or field) aspect.
Madoff was said to exert almost total control over the fund, and it was famous for providing unusually high returns.
Since virtually every hospital and doctor takes it, the government can exert almost total control over how care is delivered by adding regulations to the program.
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Anti-trust law is of course based on the idea that some companies can grow too large, and in doing so, might be able to exert economy-sapping control over markets for certain goods.
Some Western and Afghan officials are reluctantly admitting that the Taliban exert a lot of control over most of the southern and eastern provinces and the group appears to be strengthening its hold on the Farah province to the west.
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