controul

And, if he finds that you are not to be moved in his favour, when you are absolutely freed from what you call a controul, he will forbear thinking of you, whatever it costs him.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

And, if he finds that you are not to be moved in his favour, when you are absolutely freed from what you call a controul, he will forbear thinking of you, whatever it costs him.

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725

Would not that be to give you indirectly a kind of controul over me?

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Although a “paper barrier” was notoriously ineffective against “the power of the community,” insofar as a bill of rights commanded respect and favor it could “be one means to controul the majority from those acts to which they might be otherwise inclined.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

All governments, including the Confederation, had to “maintain the appearance of strength” even in times of tranquillity, and the exercise of military power was safe “under the controul and with the restrictions which the new constitution provides” but which Wilson apparently did not specify.

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

A government should be “so framed” to admit such men “together with a sufficient number of the middling class to controul them.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Although a “paper barrier” was notoriously ineffective against “the power of the community,” insofar as a bill of rights commanded respect and favor it could “be one means to controul the majority from those acts to which they might be otherwise inclined.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Finally, “experience proves the inefficacy of a bill of rights on those occasions when its controul is most needed.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Finally, “experience proves the inefficacy of a bill of rights on those occasions when its controul is most needed.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Since senators represented the state legislatures, it was “reasonable that they should be under their controul.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010