Sentences with phrase «after wresting»

So after wresting with my own mind over the options and what to do right there in the aisle at Costco, I decided DONE was going to be good enough this time.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will officially mark the first year of its administration on 7th January, 2017, after wresting power from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government led by John Dramani Mahama.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government officially marked the first year of its administration on 7th January, 2017, after wresting power from the then NDC government led by John Dramani Mahama.

Not exact matches

Turkey has threatened to march on Manbij and wrest it from Kurdish hands after its forces won a resounding victory over Kurdish fighters earlier this month and took control of Afrin, a town 60 miles (100 kilometers) to the west.

The extraordinary criticism raised questions about whether Trump was seeking to drive his top Justice official from office as a way to wrest control of the investigation from Mueller, who was appointed after Sessions» recusal for failing to immediately disclose his meetings with Kislyak.

It's just death and resurrection, over and over again, day after day, as God reaches down into our deepest graves and with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead wrests us from our pride, our apathy, our fear, our prejudice, our anger, our hurt, and our despair.

After a difficult penultimate race day, the British duo faced an uphill battle to try and wrest gold from the grip of the Austrian defending champions Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar, who started the final 10 - boat medal race with a near insurmountable 18 point lead.

After four years of further Democratic control of the Senate, Republicans were able to wrest control in the 2014 mid-term elections from Majority Leader Harry Reid, keeping it for the remaining two years of Obama's term.

The Man Who Would Be Majority Leader, one of the nation's most powerful posts, should the Democrats wrest control of the august Upper Chamber, does have a challenger after all.

That echoes City Hall's strategy of a year ago, which was adopted after de Blasio became a polarizing figure amid his discord with Cuomo and his failed attempt to help wrest control of the Senate away from Republicans.

Heastie said he will give up his post as head of the Bronx County Democratic Party, which he wrested from Assemblyman Jose Rivera in 2008 after several of the organization's primary candidates were defeated.

Recall (briefly) how county legislator Rich Parete wrested both major - party nominations from town supervisor Mike Warren, only to learn well after the fact that they had caucused in the wrong place.

The Independent Democratic Conference, a group of renegade Democrats who collaborated with the Republicans, formed shortly after Mr. Cuomo was inaugurated in 2011 and helped to wrest control from the mainline Democrats in the Senate for years.

Even after he and three colleagues succeeded in wresting senior positions, he defected to the Republican caucus with Senator Hiram Monserrate of Queens, a move that threw the leadership in the chamber in doubt and paralyzed state government for weeks.

Tobe Hooper was still in an experimental phase after «Poltergeist» was wrested away from him by producer Steven Spielberg.

But of all those jealously eyeing the director's megaphone (metaphorical sadly, they seem to have gone the way of the plus - four as part of the director's standard kit) perhaps those with the most reason to be covetous are the screenwriters, the hardy souls who turn in 120 - page draft after draft, only to have their baby wrested from their grasp and dressed up, maybe brilliantly but often not, in clothes they might not have chosen themselves.

After being injured in North Africa, von Stauffenberg is recruited to the German Resistance, eventually becoming the leader of a group responsible for an elaborate attempt to assassinate Hitler and wrest control of Germany away from the SS.

It should come as no surprise that, after decades of films focused on female protagonists whose survival might have an unsavory relationship to her sexuality or whose demise involves sickly imaginative levels of torture, women want to wrest control of genre narratives.

After the Avengers wrest the scepter away from Hydra, Tony Stark wheedles a few days from Thor to test it, with the help of fellow scientist Dr. Bruce Banner (Dr. Jekyll to the Hulk's Mr. Hyde).

There, with the help of Garza's estranged daughter, Sandra (Gisele Itie), they soon realize that they've been setup by Munroe (Eric Roberts), a rogue CIA Agent with designs on wresting control of the lucrative drug trade after staging a coup d'etat.

Seductive and reasonable as it sounds to wrest teacher standards and licensure from the bureaucratic grip of the state - after all, lawyers do much the same thing through the bar association - in reality these structures nearly always turn out to be dominated by teacher unionists and ed school faculty.

Day after day, the school challenges its 336 students to attempt the untried or unknown — academically, personally, and socially — and wrest from those experiences the learning and growth that come with such stretching.

After Katrina, the state legislature had wrested control of New Orleans» public schools from the local school board and turned most of the schools into charters.

Of course, we must acknowledge the gap between a company's share price and its intrinsic value can sometimes be a long & difficult journey... But in terms of a key event / catalyst, this Sunday Times story (from March) is critical: «Tom Roche, the largest shareholder in NTR, has wrested back control of his 38 % stake in the investment firm after a receiver was appointed to the company that holds the stock... It is understood Roche had been seeking a substantial discount on the borrowings guaranteed by shares in NTR... Roche, who is the chairman of NTR, won a last - minute reprieve by writing a cheque for the full amount of the loans last Monday».

This was after ONM in the United Kingdom was wrested away from EMAP, which was a shame, cos it was getting increasingly avant and wacky!

Now, adding fuel to the fire, while investors expected OPEC to stabilize markets, as usual, the cartel announced after its November meeting that it would not cut supply to support prices and the Saudi oil minister stated there would be no intervention in oil markets even if prices dropped to $ 20 a barrel — at which point animal spirits and hedge funds betting on continued oil price increases wrested control from supply / demand fundamentals.