They also wanted to keep control of their fairly closed and highly regulated national financial system.
In fact, if you want to keep control of it, you might actually want Apple to step in.
FORBES: Stop Freaking Out: No, Apple Is Not Seizing Control Of Your iPhone
Besides, a company might want to keep control of its supply chain to protect its brand and knowledge.
Republicans want to be able to point to concrete legislation as they campaign to keep control of Congress for another two years.
CNN: Big issues await Congress as budget deadline, campaign loom
With a child on the way, Pooky wants to keep control of the money she has earned during her lucrative singing career.
Mr Hollande and his allies are presenting a single motion, in the hope of scraping the majority that is needed to keep control of the party.
All supermarkets have responsibility to keep control of their trolleys.
LDP, with its two small coalition partners, the New Komeito and the Conservative Party, a majority in the house and allow it to keep control of the main committees.
Terra Firma, a British outfit, has struggled to keep control of one of its main portfolio companies, EMI, a record label, which it bought in a highly leveraged deal in 2007.
Today, the group is "a hodgepodge of smaller organizations that seeks alliances with street gangs to keep control of their territory and businesses, " according to an InSight Crime profile of the group.
That is what our expectations are of net gains, but we're having, we're looking to keep control of councils, because we won so many last time round, and we're therefore looking to see as many councillors as possible in.
Sandy Shaw, who heads Middle Eastern operations at Coutts, a private bank based in London, says about a quarter of her clients are female, and are keen to keep control of their affairs, especially to ensure that their estates will pass to their children when they die.
Now, for the avoidance of doubt, there is a trend here - which is that every big British bank is struggling to keep control of the costs of fines and compensation relating to a great variety of forms of sloppy practices and misbehaviour in the boom years.
While Apple may be able to keep some control of your device, more so than an Android, on which you can do whatever you want, consumers will choose what works for them.
Many firms, she said, were registering trademarks to help them keep control of intellectual properties that were now out of copyright.
This would mean countries would be allowed to run bigger deficits in a recession - helping the recovery - but would have to keep a tighter control of spending during the boom years.
In the case of oil-for-food, the Security Council tried to keep control through a sanctions committee of national diplomats.
By allowing their exchange rates to rise and fall as capital flows wax and wane, emerging economies should be able to keep a measure of control over their domestic monetary conditions.
Ten years back, during a surge of concern about our online privacy, a host of companies launched to try to help us keep track of and control over our personal information.
Al-Maliki called for dialogue among tribal leaders, government officials and security forces to stop the fighting from spiraling out of control and to keep the country's nascent democracy from unraveling.
Well don't expect to keep it if you lose control of your care.
Working with 400 school children aged between nine and 11, the team assigned whole classrooms either to perform and note down three kind acts per week or - as a control group - to keep a diary of three locations they visited each week.
As part of Mozilla's mission to keep the Web open and put people in control of their Web experience, users can buy apps once and use it on any HTML5-enabled device.
ENGADGET: Mozilla Labs Apps set to allow developer submissions for Mozilla Marketplace at MWC
If total costs fall more than five per cent compared with those of a matched set of control patients, the program allows institutions to keep part of the savings.
You wouldn't expect to keep your job if you lost control of your finances.
Police and soldiers were deployed to keep the situation under control as thousands of anxious relatives of factory employees gathered at the scene.
BBC: Dhaka Bangladesh clothes factory fire kills more than 100
Kirill Androsov, a Russian who runs Altera Capital, an investment firm, says the essence of enterprise in his country is to keep hold of the resources you control.
Santorum advisers including Gidley said the final decision to suspend the campaign, which allows him to continue raising money and probably keep control of delegates won so far, came Monday night and was based on three factors.
With polls suggesting Republicans are likely to gain a majority in the House, Democrats redoubled their efforts to keep the GOP from picking up the 10 seats it needs to win control of the Senate.
Britain, France, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and others have all indicated their determination to keep deficits under control, with varying degrees of conviction.
应用推荐