How to use "controls" in a sentence

The government controls us enough already

The cab controls would not operate unless one first inserted an acceptable ID card into a slot above them

It destroys the part of the brain that controls all of the body's automatic functions

The controls are just here

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

'Hmm, when don't I? With the baby coming in a couple of months and the government's new controls on pay