Local nobles resisted the claim, but William invaded and by 1064 had secured control of the area.

He added that Russia could not secure control of the air.

In 1595 the Spanish took steps to secure control of that coast.

This experience helped convince Allen that he should secure creative control for all his future projects.

Morgase will keep until we can secure proper control of her again.

The conspiracy is believed to have broad goals, usually conceived as securing control of a country, a region, or even the entire world.

In Japanese society, the primary method used to secure social control is the threat of ostracism.

For Caesar, it was imperative to secure control of this strategic location.

"The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately rule the world" (1908).

The vital question was how to secure control for the Heartland.

There was no point in having such control any more or less secure than the generator itself.

"The United States wants above all to see safe, secure and reliable control over nuclear weapons," the Pentagon spokesman, Pete Williams, said this week.

However, though the city of Jerusalem was under relatively secure control, the rest of Outremer was not.

Nobody had complete, secure control of an entire Labyrinth main line segment any more, and neither side had sufficient forces to knock the other out.

Once there he was to sink or disable the German vessels, and secure control of the lake.

The subsidies had been reduced by degrees, as Henry gained more secure control of the nation.

The object is to capture the opponent's stones and secure control over open spaces on the board.

Bonakis was able to assemble his troops in Alexandria and secure control of the fleet at the nearby island of Pharos.

As the Cathedral Guard declared more and more of the ship to be under their secure control, it struck them that the ship was dying.

To get more yield from a farm required a more secure control of the land-improvements are seldom made to "community" or commonly owned property.