The X-factor no one could control, the weather, turned out to be mostly a nonfactor.
But chaos ensued as five different unions clashed and no one had control of the truck assembly line.
In spite of all the advances in the past 60 million years, no-one can control the climate.
Countries did indeed continuously war against one another, but no one monarch emerged to control the continent.
As you may know, my family and I have already had to endure years of press leaks and innuendo regarding a situation over which I had no direct control at one of the nursing homes within the company I ran.
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Far from the safe world of family entertainment, television has become like the internet - carrying thousands of channels of unregulated programming - which no one is able to monitor or control.
On the one hand, they have no control over what independent groups say on their behalf.
On the one hand - saying no to gun control and preserving what many regard is a proud national tradition.
In an incident that left neighbors in a Glendale, California, neighborhood surprised but relieved that no one was hurt, a man lost control of his black Cadillac as he drove down his steep driveway Saturday evening.
"There is no one else like Shakespeare in his income and control, " he says.
We let our customers control the keys, so no one can access their data without their involvement.
The Lebanese may believe that it is better to have Fatah in control of the camps than no one at all, especially during the volatile period of the final-status talks.
Successful entrepreneurs usually relish their ability to control at least one thing that no one else has managed to figure out.
They might be awful, but you gain nothing by calling attention to this fact (and no one cares that the quality was out of your control).
For example, ImClone Systems (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people ) and marketing partner Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ) tried to get their colon cancer drug Erbitux approved last year on the basis of one small trial of 120 patients with no control group.
No one can blame him if he indeed requested greater roster control and travel restrictions.
Making the Bank independent was one of his genuine achievements: he has no day-to-day control over it.
"No-one should guarantee anything, especially in football, because you can't control what happens, " he said.
But, regardless of whether you make a one-time purchase or sign up to invest monthly, you have no control over the respective trade date.
"I learned that I must always remain in control, double-check everyone's work, and trust no one completely, " Handler wrote of his approximately eight months in the hospital.
In a statement released by the gun control advocacy group she started with her husband, Giffords said that "no one piece of legislation" would have prevented the shooting.
The US and Europe should also understand that if an out-of-control situation in Syria causes the situation in the entire Middle East to go out of control, hits energy supplies and breeds extremist forces, this will benefit no one.
No one should ever be scheduled to work alone at night in a critical job like air traffic control.
In 2010 the Lib Dems lost control of Sheffield - the city which includes their leader Nick Clegg's parliamentary constituency - leaving it with no party in overall control, though the Lib Dems had remained the largest party, with one councillor more than Labour.
One man's loss of control inspired the other's, and we are no better for anything either of them did.
"No-one is suggesting, not even me, that the government is going to be able to control the weather but the government should be able to control how prepared we are for that weather, " she told MPs.
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