Sentences with phrase «also wresting control»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.