The press is as thoroughly controlled as any I've ever seen.

This began with a Confederate train robbery of a Union gold shipment during the American Civil War, then moved to a post-war Texas county thoroughly controlled by a rich, arrogant rancher.

That isn't to say that he ignored the fireworks entirely, and when he addressed the barnstorming passages on their own terms, he did so with a steely edge and ample - if thoroughly controlled - force.

They compared their personal dealings with the notorious Lady A and Yvette related her adventures on Omicron, revealing the shame she'd felt at being controlled so thoroughly in the slave camp.

Even two thousand new R-Masters was a tiny assault force with which to threaten the bureaucratic organization tightly controlling every technological service and every source of supply for a world whose population was nearly six billion people-all thoroughly controlled, whether they knew it or not.

Her vibrato and coloration were thoroughly controlled and used with thought and expressivity, and she applied a touch of portamento that gave Anne's music an alluring warmth.

Elevated temperature is reached and maintained by thoroughly controlled heating of the tanks, the material feeding lines, the pumps and metering heads.

Those other British colonies that had assemblies largely agreed with those in the Thirteen Colonies, but they were thoroughly controlled by the British Empire and the Royal Navy, so protests were hopeless.

Emperor Cheng has often been used as an example of someone who had been so thoroughly controlled by his mother's family that it led to the eventual usurpation for Wang Mang.

The production became known as the Voodoo Macbeth, as Welles changed the setting to an 18th-century Haiti run by an evil king thoroughly controlled by African magic.