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How to use the word Controlled in a Sentence?

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The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire.

Robert A. Heinlein

added by Normando
3 days ago

The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.

Jacob G. Hornberger

added by Normando
10 months ago

no one sees, no one hears cries of despair not very dreamlike; a sense that we’re all robots controlled by psychotic state of mind these days. Orwell wasn’t far off, just a few years.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

A candidate has to understand that that is what it’s like running against Donald Trump, the age of having carefully controlled media appearances and a moderate approach to content creation – that is not going to work against Trump, who, whether he wants to make news or somebody else wants to make news about him, it happens every single day. It happens constantly. And the only way to occupy attention in a voter’s mind is to fight him for that space.

Another Republican strategist

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We suggest that maybe there were certain people — religious specialists — who controlled their use of these drugs, all this evidence made it seem that maybe certain individuals deserved this hair treatment, and those individuals were the ones who consumed the drugs.

Elisa Guerra-Doce

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The authors show that the effect of warming on home runs is less for indoor stadiums and night games, making a somewhat controlled experiment, there may have been other changes to gameplay or equipment which could have also affected trends in home runs, but one might not expect those things to differ between indoor and outdoor stadiums or night versus day games.

Ethan Coffel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The subtleties of this, I think, are probably lost from a distance, if there isn’t an industry for kangaroo leather and kangaroo meat, kangaroos are still going to be shot, I promise you. Landholders are still going to shoot kangaroos and it’s going to be a worse animal welfare outcome than if it was done in a regulated, controlled manner.

Jim Radford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is one of the most troubling cases for the judge, the state, the defense, the media coverage throughout the nation, you have a wife who has been murdered. A son who has been savagely murdered. A lawyer, a person from the respected family who has controlled justice in this community for over a century, a person whose grandfather hang at the back of the courthouse who I had to have ordered removed in order to ensure that a fair trial was had by both the state and the defense.

Clifton Newman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The impact of the earthquake in areas of Syria controlled by the government is significant, but the services are there and there is access to those people, we have to remember here that in Syria, we’ve had 10 years of war. The health system is amazingly fragile. People have been through hell.

Mike Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Substantially all of Cambodia’s media is now government controlled, it also occurs in the context of [the] ongoing wrongful imprisonment of opposition supporters and routine intimidation of those who continue to operate.

Sam Rainsy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed, and it has a blue light on it, and it keeps him up at night. So he took the manilla folder and put it over so it would keep the light down so he could sleep at night, it’s just this folder. It says ‘Classified Evening Summary’ on it. It’s not a classification marking. It’s not anything that is controlled in any way. There is nothing illegal about it.

Timothy Parlatore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is likely to be less international assistance provided to opposition areas because that is additionally complicated, it’s not an area controlled by a sovereign government and makes it difficult for aid operators.

Charles Lister

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This issue really hurt the collective conscience of the Iranian people, because for many years the Iranian people had suffered, and one of the main sufferings was that half the population was constantly being harassed because of their gender, because of their body, i do believe that both in Iran and in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, hijab is being used as a means of exerting violence and meting out violence against women, bruising and hurting women, and then covering them in a veil to hide all the bruises and the hurt.

Iran Social Media Iranian couple

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They need to come to a realization pretty quickly they are no longer in a one-party controlled government, and it requires negotiation.

Mike Lawler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is imperative that leadership from the federal government visit the southern border, discussions with border residents, ranchers, law enforcement and public officials are the only way to understand the magnitude of this current border crisis and develop comprehensive strategies that effectively implement a controlled immigration process.

Christopher Olivarez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Then isn’t it better to do what’s up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn’t, like a slave or a beggar?

Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
2 years ago

When you look at this party, today's Democratic Party, it is controlled by fanatical ideologues who hate freedom.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He did things because he wanted to, the idea that Tom Barrack was controlled by anybody is nonsense.

Michael Schachter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters controlled by radical left scoundrels, lawyers, and the media who tell them what to do.

Former President Trump

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russian citizens travel to European Union mainly via Finland and Estonia. The official services of the countries are under enormous pressure. Russia is controlled by KGB legacy structures, which exploit the openness of the Schengen countries for various operations.

Rasa Juknevičienė

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will have to look at other options than the current strategy of asking people to stay clear of the wild animal, one of those options, as previously stated by the Directorate from the beginning of this summer, is to greenlight a controlled operation to put the animal down.

Nadia Jdaini

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The other thing that just is so striking to me, I can't get it out of my brain, and that is the vision of Building 7 falling faster than the speed of gravity, right ? Building 7, which no plane hit, and all of a sudden Building 7 falls, very consistent with what they call controlled demolitions or controlled charges because that building from the top down falls faster than if you had thrown a hammer off the top of the building.

Michael Peroutka

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This risk is entirely avoidable since technologies and mission designs now exist that can provide controlled reentries( usually into remote areas of oceans) instead of uncontrolled and therefore entire random ones.

Michael Byers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Just disappointment I guess, i had a great opportunity to add to that major tally, and I did n’t quite get it done. Did n’t feel like I did many things wrong. The putter just sort of went cold on me there, pretty much throughout the round. I did what I wanted to do. I played a really controlled round of golf. I did n’t take advantage of some of the holes I had been taking advantage of this week.

David Cannon/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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