Some articles on direct control, control:
... Direct control of various elements of the fleet was subordinated to officers commanding those elements, accountable to the Kaiser ... suited the Kaiser who wanted to maintain direct control of his ships ... Wilhelm II, however, never agreed to relinquish direct control of his fleet ...
... On 1 January 1907, the British Post Office took direct control of the post offices, operating them until Moroccan independence in 1956 ...
... But beyond the outer virtues of poise, self-control, and diplomacy, Bene Gesserit training includes superior combat skills and precise physiological control that grants them direct control over conception and ... The Bene Gesserit power of Voice allows them to control others by merely modulating their vocal tones ... a being whom they can use in order to gain more direct control over the universe ...
... The wing headquarters assumed direct control over the 8th, 13th, and 90th Bombardment Squadrons ... deputy commanders for various functional areas and gave wing commanders more direct control over their units ... Soviet Union should the crisis escalate out of control ...
... In the Third Reich, the Nazis created the office of Reichsstatthalter to gain direct control over the federal states (i.e ... parliaments were successively abolished with the Nazi party taking direct control in the process of Gleichschaltung (coordination) ... been overthrown as early as 1932 in the Preußenschlag by the Reich government, Adolf Hitler took direct control ...
Famous quotes containing the words control and/or direct:
“The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient.... They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.”
—Strabo (c. 58 B.C.–c. 24 A.D., Greek geographer. Geographia, bk. 1, sct. 2, subsct. 8.
“Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)