How to use "controlling" in a sentence

Sentences

We're opposed to the government controlling everyone the way it does."

It was clear to them now: the pods were just another way of controlling everyone

Or did a Martian sit inside each, controlling it in the same way that a man's brain controls his body?

He noticed an unusual number of police controlling the traffic

It whistled as it worked, and no Martian seemed to be controlling it.