21.   Carol distracted the whitecoated male assistant, exercising commendable control by not kneeing him in the nuts as she no doubt would have liked to.

22.   By the time the gentry had increased the quantity of land over which they exercised direct control, most of them were keen to sell off the rest.

23.   This time the US State Department was able to exercise more control over policy-making and so avert a diplomatic crisis.

24.   Except at the Opra and at court, French matres exercised control ordinarily without a scroll or baton.

25.   Poland must exercise greater control over the environmental impact of foreign investment projects in the country, Greenpeace warns in a recent report.

26.   And this it sought to achieve by minimising the number of people required to exercise control while maximising the number over whom it could be exercised.

27.   Almost all of the censoring governments exercise control through central gateways.

28.   Although critics say no authorities exercise control over the Bureau of Reclamation, the bureau itself it has little influence over its irrigation districts.

29.   Although Sufism is practiced in parts of Turkey, the state exercises strict control over religion and enforces tough laws against organizations and religious leaders considered outside the mainstream.

30.   And because labor is one of the few areas of costs that management can exercise some control over, a period of intense labor-management conflict became inevitable.