James again placed his life in the hands of a computer-only a machine could control the enormous amount of power that he was about to unleash.

The social conscience isn't a living thing any more, but a machine, a power machine, controlled by bureaucrats!

Company officials said each machine could control mosquitoes in an area of one acre.

But when a political machine controls all branches of government, and those officials charged with oversight are also reliably partisan, politicians feel safe from investigation.

I.B.M. and compatible machines control most of the rest of the market.

But in the end they produced a race of living and even intelligent machines whose will they could control absolutely, even at a great distance.

These machines can also control and harvest data from other input devices such as barcode scanners and weighing scales.

In the past, political machines have controlled Jersey City.

Before the war, they worked in the Ilium Works, controlling machines, but now machines control themselves much better.

The machine controls all the layers of government, from the Mayor's office to the sewer system.