The race which gained control of North America must become the dominant race of the world, and its political ideas must prevail in the struggle for life.

The country will be starved out, if not beaten in the field, for I do not believe Germany can gain control of the high seas and cover the world with its merchantmen.

The struggle of combined land and sea forces of the Allies to gain control of the Dardanelles, and thus open the way for the British and French fleets to Constantinople and the Black Sea, continued through the autumn of 1915 and furnished some of the most sanguinary battles of the war.

The invading troops swept on, crossed the Sereth river, and soon gained control of about one-half of Roumania's western frontier.

He never ..." Then Mr. Anderson's voice shook so that he had to stop to gain control.

By acting quickly we can gain control of the deck.

Once we gain control of the deck we can lock the others below, and negotiate with them at our leisure.

And he discovered, in that bitter moment, that he had not worked merely to gain control of the horse.

The pontiffs were presided over by one called Pontifex Maximus,a title shrewdly assumed by Caesar to gain control of the popular worship, and still surviving in the title of the Pope of Rome with his college of cardinals.

Unfortunately political development, though great, has not by any means kept pace with the economic; in other words, it is still possible in most countries, and in some more possible than in others, for a small oligarchy to gain control of the political machine.

Ah, my dear sir, we protest when we read that might is placed before right, yet we applaud when in practise we see might play the hypocrite in not only perverting right but even in using it as a tool in order to gain control.

Among other opinions which he shared with Lafayette and other thoughtful men, was the fear of a Roman Catholic plot to gain control of the Government of the United States.

If the Monroe Doctrine were out of the way, Germany hoped that she would be able to get a footing in these countries in which she had colonists and gradually to gain control of the entire country.

All were striving to gain control of the government, and all were engaged in mutual hostilities from about 180 onwards.

Finally it was hoped to gain control over the trade to India.

For this reason, in the period with which we are now concerned the region of the present Hankow was several times the place of origin of great risings whose aim was to gain control of the whole of the southern empire.

He had success; his group gained control of a considerable region round his home.

The revolutionariesapart from their desire to neutralize the prime minister and general, if not to bring him over to their sidewere also readier than ever to negotiate, because they were short of money and unable to obtain loans from abroad, and because they could not themselves gain control of the individual governors.

One of their leaders was murdered, and the blame was thrown upon Yüan Shih-k'ai; there then came, in the middle of 1912, a new revolution, in which the radicals made themselves independent and tried to gain control of South China.

To the Jewish state and race it was a great calamity that a man of this type should gain control of the nation at the moment when it had attained its greatest material strength.

For he knew if he tried he could now gain control.

The attendants imagined that the best way to gain control of a patient was to cow him from the first.

Indeed he gained a certain popularity from his boast that all the time he needed to gain control over any woman was half an hour alone with herbut of that later, if at all.

Dost thou want me to tell thee of bygone days, how, when thy spirit was revealed to me, I gained control over my own spirit in order the more perfectly to embrace and love thine?

They would have liked by monarchical reaction to gain control of France; by the success of the Carlist movement to obtain that of Spain, and then, assisted by Austria, to overthrow the new order in Europe.