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Take control   /teɪk kəntrˈoʊl/   Listen
Take control

verb
1.
Assume control.  Synonyms: take charge, take hold.






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"Take control" Quotes from Famous Books



... a censor of a very different type. So far from wishing to take control from the people, he would give the people absolute control over everything, and at all times. Seldom has the case against party government been more powerfully presented than in his work on "Representative Government in England." ...
— Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government • T. R. Ashworth and H. P. C. Ashworth

... near enough! It's all been arranged," replied Boyne. "There'll be ships-war-ships, commanded by Hoche. They'll have orders to land on the coast, to join the Irish patriots, to take control of the operations, and then to ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... in danger, while in Rome, of being made the head of a faction in antagonism to Drusus, the son of Tiberius. He was dispatched, however, with extraordinary powers, to take control of the East, where Piso, the governor of Syria, believed that he held his own appointment precisely that he might be a thorn in the side of Germanicus. The latter made a progress through Greece, settled affairs in Armenia and Parthia, and continued his journey ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton



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