Sentences with phrase «also wresting»

It was an evening that saw the GOP expand its control of the House of Representatives while also wresting control of the U.S. Senate.

The first player can also wrest control of Cappy back from the second player whenever he wants.

According to an aggregate of exit polls, the BJP will win Gujarat with 116 of 182 seats and also wrest Himachal Pradesh from the Congress.

Not exact matches

Keen also finds inspiration in the United States, talking to «hacktivist» coders in Oakland and recounting the visionary ideas of John Borthwick, who founded the startup incubator Betaworks, and who offers an action plan to wrest back control of our digital lives.

It's also driven the digital wedge deeper in some organizations, as CTOs use its dependency on technology to wrest more power away from the marketing department.

The Shanghai oil futures contract is similarly designed to wrest some control over pricing from the main benchmarks in New York and London — West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent — and to promote the use of the yuan, also known as the renminbi.

The president is also under investigation by Mueller for possible obstruction of justice in the Russia probe — and any further attempt to wrest control of the probe threatens to unleash a political crisis.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

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This black Real Madrid jersey 2011 - 2012 will be worn by the likes of Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo as Real seek to wrest the La Liga title away from arch rivals Barcelona, who will also be wearing a black away kit, albeit one made by Nike, this season.

It was learnt that the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, is also pitching tent with the faction in what members described as a renewed effort to wrest the structure from the 2015 governorship candidate of the party, Olorogun O'tega Emerhor.

That's despite Obama's claims this spring that the party has a «great chance» of wresting control of the House from the Republicans who have stymied much of his agenda since they took over in the 2010 midterms, and also in spite of a May Q poll that showed Democrats with a slight competitive edge on a generic congressional ballot.

Bart and John Haggerty also made attempts to wrest control of the Queens GOP from Maltese when they claimed that improper weighted voting was used to elect Maltese to he chairmanship in 2005, but the courts sided with Maltese.

Under Gordon Brown's plans for constitutional reform, parliament would also gain the final right to declare war, wresting the royal prerogative from the government.

In a statement on Monday by the Zonal Publicity Secretary, Rev. Bunmi Jenyo, the party also stated that with the success recorded in the conduct of the non-elective National Convention, it had been reinvigorated to wrest power from the All Progressives Congress in the coming elections.

Red Horse Strategies, which played a big role in the 2008 cycle when the Democrats wrested control of the Senate from the GOP, is no longer contracted to work with the conference, although it is still working with individual lawmakers and also is repping independent LG hopeful Bill Samuels.

Klein also did indeed «alienate» swaths of people, predominantly state lawmakers who made an effort to strip the mayor of control of the school system — something he wrested from the Board of Education in 2002 when he took office.

New York City should also fight to wrest control over the minimum wage from the state, seek permission to enforce state wage labor laws and enact paid family leave through an expansion of the state's temporary disability insurance program.

One of Ms. Argento's companies also gave $ 10,000 to the Putnam County Democratic Committee in October 2014, when the mayor was urging his donors to support Democratic efforts to wrest control of the State Senate.

In addition to taking on the T. rex project, Asara also succeeded in wresting 76 collagen sequences from a slightly younger find — mastodon bone fragments with soft tissue estimated to be 160,000 to 600,000 years old.

It's the rather dashing Lord Rathbone, (Aiden Gillen... but you get to know about that much later) who wants to wrest the throne from queen Victoria and also make way for his ally to become King of China.

Yesha — an acronym made up of the Hebrew initials of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, the lands Israel wrested from Syria, Jordan, and Egypt in the 1967 Six - Day War — is also the name of the movement to reestablish Jewish control of all of biblical Israel by resettlement.

This exhibition features tough but humorous sculpture, unapologetic and brash, political yet ambiguous, considered yet painterly, and reflects on Harvey's concerns of national identity and masculinity - «It is partly to wrest something from the all - pervading guilt over colonial misdemeanours and also in part to ironize an overly romantic valuation of the past.

This kind of visual wit allows Smith to indulge a quite original colour sense that feels linked directly to the real utilitarian world but also one heightened by colours and forms wrested from mass media imagery.

Manet shocks by wresting clothed and unclothed figures out of Renaissance art and into the present — and it says something that Thomas skips not just the clothed men, but also Manet's sudden shift in scale to a fourth figure, a woman, in the background.