The European Union allows just 50 years of protection - and this is a way of maintaining proprietary control.

They wrested their native Afrikaans from the proprietary control of the National Party, which internationalized apartheid, meaning racial apartness, as a household word.

It has an infra red sensor to allow it to be used with a proprietary remote control.

I intend to demonstrate momentarily that all the claims of proprietary control or ownership that have been presented in this court are without merit.

Although their train cars are the same size and can operate as part of the same train, the two companies' locomotives use their own proprietary electronic control systems.

The church has maintained good relations in most cities by working to preserve their proprietary control of smokepowder.

This acquisition gave the company proprietary control of software used primarily in our cash-in-transit and money processing operations in France.

Violence, they believe, may have developed as a strategy for men to exert proprietary control over women, and in particular over their reproductive capacities.

There was no question of her dedication to Lady Nimisha and her almost zealous proprietary control of this machine shop.

In 1681, Protestant colonists, especially members of the Anglican Church, began a series of local rebellions against proprietary control by Calvert.