With a simple remote, he couldcontrol the toy truck.
2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, inBBC[1]:
This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiouslycontrolling much of the first period.
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies theycontrol are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
c.1503–1512,John Skelton,Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor,John Skelton: The Complete English Poems,1983,→OCLC, page64, lines94–99:
I fortuned to come in, Thys rebell to behold, Whereof I hymcontrold; But he sayde that he wolde Agaynst my mynde and wyll In my church hawke styll.
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, inNew York Times[3]:
She had nocontrol of her body as she tumbled downhill. She did not know up from down. It was not unlike being cartwheeled in a relentlessly crashing wave.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people'scontrol of their own attention.
A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; asafeguard orcountermeasure.
(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
2006, Henry Lunt,Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, page297:
“The entries in thecontrol accounts reflect respectively the effect of the transactions on the value of Korrinna company’s receivables (sales ledgercontrol account) and payables (purchase ledgercontrol account.”
2012, Harold Randall, David Hopkins,Cambridge International AS and A Level Accounting Textbook, page78:
"Make sure you enter the total of any credit balances in the sales ledger into the Sales LedgerControl Account and the total of any debit balances in the purchase ledger into the Purchase LedgerControl Account."
2012, Aurora M.N.,A textbook of Cost and Management Accounting, 10th Edition, page12-3:
“WagesControl Account: This account records wage transactions in aggregate. Postings are made from wage analysis sheet. This account is debited with gross wages (paid and accrued) and is closed by transfer of direct wages to work-in-progress and indirect wages to factory, administration and selling and distribution overheadscontrol accounts as illustrated below:”
(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
(climatology) Any of the physical factors determining theclimate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
(linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. Seecontrol.
"Ah, who are they? I wonder. Guides,controls, psychic entities of some kind. Who the agents of vengeance - or I should say justice - are, is really not essential."
[…] the self-acknowledged stereotype of the audaxer as a socially awkward middle-aged man,[…] carefully avoiding eye contact as a volunteer serves him his cup of tea and plate of baked beans in one of the draughty village halls that typically host audaxcontrols.
climatology: any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place
linguistics: a construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context
spiritualism, parapsychology: a spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living
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