direct control
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandcontrol
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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control
noun
uk/kənˈtrəʊl/us/kənˈtroʊl/
the act of controlling something or someone, or the power to ...
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(Definition ofdirectandcontrolfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdirect control
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Governance is applied to those phenomena wheredirectcontrolis neither feasible nor desirable.
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This should create possibilities for output that the player could not achieve bydirectcontrol.
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These circumstances were sufficient to encourage the millowners to assert a measure ofdirectcontrol.
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They can be categorized into data manipulation service, event reporting service, ordirectcontrolservice.
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Thedirectcontrolcost reflects basically the purchasing cost of the poison.
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Deforestation is therefore mostly unplanned and beyond thedirectcontrolof governments.
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The innovation here is that these elites tookdirectcontrolover political power.
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The system responsible for a routine behaviour such as driving hasdirectcontrolover behaviour.
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Higher-level processes still have nodirectcontrolover the internal operation of the parser.
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My train of thought is sometimes under thedirectcontrolof my will.
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Directcontrolof subsistence was however probably limited to the immediately adjacent regions.
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This gives the programmerdirectcontrolover parallel evaluation and an indirect control over data distribution.
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The people exercisedirectcontrolover the government, which is their creation.
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Component creation is not underdirectcontrolof the knowledge base designer.
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Each agent manages business functions that are under itsdirectcontrol.
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But when we believingly accept, what we do is something under ourdirectcontrol.
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Often such social institutions existed largely outside thedirectcontrolof the workplace.
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Although a public or clan domain existed, each household head also had land under hisdirectcontrol.
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In some agreements one state exercises somedirectcontrolover the intelligence collection and analysis conducted by another state.
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The first link is assumed passive (nodirectcontrolinput) and the second and third links are active.
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By 1831, they came to regard him as incompetent to rule and assumeddirectcontrolover the state.
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These parameters are outside thedirectcontrolof officials, and so occasionally legislators can misunderstand what they have passed.
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Increased competition and volatile commodity prices pushed merchants to look for ways to exertdirectcontrolover the vanilla supply.
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Some of these matters are outside hisdirectcontrol, but others are certainly within hisdirectcontrol.
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