They began working to get control of Congress to pass their own program.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

No. And the reason was in the northern part of Italy, there were Etruscans, another powerful ancient people who control their own area and were not about to have anybody colonizing their territory.

没有,因为意大利北部,居住着伊特鲁里亚人,另一个古代强大的民族,他们控制自己的疆域,并且不允许任何殖民者侵略他们的领土

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This is the force or purpose of law to set rules, to keep people, as he puts it, on their way, a law that is intended simply to constrain and control for its own sake, Hobbes says, cannot be a good law.

这就是法律的目的，制定一定的规章制度，引导人民走正确的路子，霍布斯还认为,那种简单地为了限制和控制为目的法律，是不能称之为好的法律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But he said the time has come for Africans to take control of their own destiny.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

"What you've got to do is pass control to local people who then can take control of their own affairs and that is what our strategy is."

VOA: standard.2009.11.13