These operations, some historians suggest, were often used as a means of social control.

But with animals, she justified to herself, it was no worse than any other means of control.

As a result, more effective and efficient means of control have been called for.

The reporting system is less a means of corporate control than a management tool.

To the lords, however, they represented a means of control.

Some means of control, built into the very ship herself.

There are just too many ways to get around their means of control.

The goal was to provide a means of political and social control.

That would provide better means of control in general.

I therefore think that taxation is an important means of control.