Meanings of controlled events in English

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

With the exception of occasional appearances at carefully controlled events, Huffington is visible exclusively in thirty- and sixty-second segments.

Something was about to be done; but if I could have controlled events, I would not have known what to choose.

Pathogenesis in vivo occurs through a series of spatiotemporally controlled events under the control of a gene cascade termed the ToxR regulon.

Though national party conventions are normally the most tightly controlled events of the presidential election cycle, sometimes things go wrong or get weird.

"I claim not to have controlled events";

"I claim not," he once said in this connection, "to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me."