Controlling

Examples

• The impulse under which I acted, the mood controlling me, were similar to the impulse and the mood which had induced me to visit the confessional. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• No, papa, I'm not nervous, said Eva, controlling herself, suddenly, with a strength of resolution singular in such a child. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But in its case, the quality of the resulting knowledge is the controlling factor and not an incident of the activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The pendulum of the controlling clock, in swinging to either side, makes a brief contact, which completes the circuit of a galvanic battery, and thus sends a current to the controlled clock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The eighteenth century thus commenced with a practical knowledge of the power of steam and of means for controlling and working it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He himself happened to be a controlling, central part, the masses of men were the parts variously controlled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Traction is then made on the chains controlling the jaws, which close; the grapple is hoisted to the surface and its contents discharged into scows alongside the dredge. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They tend to act with the same controlling ideas, beliefs, and intentions, given similar circumstances. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• There is no passion, therefore, capable of controlling the interested affection, but the very affection itself, by an alteration of its direction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The Western Union Telegraph Company was a great corporation, controlling the telegraph business of the country. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Hitherto he had been in Medina organizing armies and controlling the general campaign. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The easy snap of the controlling switch on the electric burner gives a certain intensity of heat which remains at that temperature so long as the switch remains in that position. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He used to say that the horrible hue and surface of her crape dress was most likely the sufficient controlling force. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There is no controlling wind or wave. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Human beings control animals by controlling the natural stimuli which influence them; by creating a certain environment in other words. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I was swinging quite close to the controlling devices, so I reached out to the lever that directed the rays of repulsion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The action of the wings in folding and unfolding for maintaining the flight and controlling its direction, is then to be noted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• His inventions in this line were directed to the best means of utilising and controlling the force of springs, his motto being _ut tensio sic vis_, (as the tension is so is the force. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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