Sentences with phrase «by wresting»

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.

A customer, James Shaw Jr, prevented further bloodshed by wresting the rifle out of the suspect's hands

Some day, perhaps when Bobby becomes world champion by wresting that crown away from the Russians (as we American chess players fondly hope), it would be pleasant to think of him becoming Sportsman of the Year.

As the architects of this secular society well knew, it could be built only by wresting from the Church control over two basic social institutions: marriage and the education of the young.

The growing profitability of specialty channels isn't surprising: the classification includes some of the buzziest names in Canadian television, from Orphan Black - host Space to Rogers» Sportsnet suite, which pulled off a huge small - screen coup by wresting NHL rights from the CBC (Rogers owns Canadian Business).

And so do laws become serviceable and adapt themselves to every one of our affairs by some wrested, forced, and biased interpretation.»

Not exact matches

GENEVA — Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich has appeared in a Swiss court as part of a 19 - year - old legal case aimed to wrest 46 million Swiss francs in debts allegedly owed by him and others to a European bank.

GENEVA (AP)-- Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich has appeared in a Swiss court as part of a 19 - year - old legal case aimed to wrest 46 million Swiss francs ($ 46 million) in debts allegedly owed by him and others to a European bank.

Remember, one of the main points of net neutrality is to stop carriers trying to wrest revenue out of content providers» hands by charging for access to the carriers» customers.

Investors in five of Concrete's Calgary - area office buildings and strip malls worth some $ 110 million, by contrast, were successful in wresting control from Concrete Equities, as detailed in a Canadian Business feature story from 2012.

«However, I ended by noting that facts are not the same as values, that while facts can be wrested from a complex universe by close observation and disciplined experiment, values can't be «proven» in the same way as facts.

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.

We need only recall those moments in time of war when, wrested out of ourselves by the force of a collective passion, we have a sense of rising to a higher level of human existence.

It was reported that she was threatened with a knife and raped by her aged employer; then she wrested the knife from him and stabbed him many times.

He might gain power by «doing homage to the devil,» as it is here expressed, or, in realistic terms, exploiting the latent forces of violence to wrest from Rome the liberation of his people.

wresting from it, by force of attraction, a long, cigar - shaped filament which in the course of time broke up into a string of separate globes.

He will then be able to wrest from his mind every self - deceit about his being able to make Agnes happy by his trick, he will have courage, humanly speaking, to crush Agnes.

Far from being a withdrawal from faith, the highly empiric position of Wiltshire Church in fact represents a familiar way by which human society everywhere has attempted to wrest meaning from the chaos of life.

«We do not «have» Jesus even at the end of the story, and there is no guarantee that we can wrest a promise from him or lock him safely away by hermeneutical tricks.»

Prosecuted by the armed proletariat who represent the masses of mankind, the communist revolution wrests the power of the state from the ruling elite and deploys that power not to oppress the masses (as was the case in former revolutions) but to abolish the ruling class as such.

But it is likely that an enlarged SABMiller would seek to wrest the brands back that are owned by Anheuser - Busch InBev at a global level.

A big reason is that Pettine eliminated the specter of a quarterback controversy by making it very clear that McCown is the starter, and it will take a lot to wrest the job from the 12 - year veteran.»

There is little doubt that this interest has been brought about by installing his former Chelsea manager in charge at the club, although will they be able to wrest him from Stamford Bridge?

and was immediately engulfed by a tide of fans trying to wrest the ball away.

The morning before, Roe had telephoned Benoit with the news that Grete Waitz of Norway, who had brought the women's record down more than nine minutes in the 1978,»79 and»80 New York Marathons and from whom Roe had wrested the mark by 13 seconds in the 1981 New York race, had that day tied the record in the London Marathon.

Three - times FA Cup winner Walcott, who Everton wrested from Arsenal's clutches last month, had 63 touches of the ball in the encounter with Roy Hodgson's men — a figure put in perspective by Tottenham Hotspur's pre-eminent striker Harry Kane needing his side's recent games against Arsenal and Juventus to accumulate exactly the same number.

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.

By 4:30 a.m. EST today, even with many individual contests unknown, it was apparent the GOP had wrested away control of the Senate from the Democrats and gained even more control in the House.

The heart of this book is the story of how David Cameron wrested the party from its losing streak to shape authentic Conservative values into a genuinely popular narrative, characterised by a stronger society and a more efficient state.

Indeed, the recent establishment of the Green Climate Fund over the past two years, intended to govern an anticipated $ 100bn a year in climate finance flows by 2020, can be read as the fulfilment of this long - standing aspiration for wresting finance oversight away from existing institutions — especially the World Bank.

Paterson was replaced as minority leader by Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith, who made history in 2009 when the Democrats wrested control of the majority from the GOP and he became the chamber's first black majority leader.

IT»S BACK... «Texas Democrats look to single - payer in congressional races,» by Renuka Rayasam: «Democrats hoping to wrest congressional seats away from diehard repeal - and - replace Republicans are campaigning on an unlikely issue for Texas — single - payer health care.

Three years ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrested control of the NYRA board and charged it with returning the firm to private hands by this month.

Dohney went on to accuse Hoffman of breaking his word by agreeing to run on Row D even if he didn't get the Republican nod, thereby improving Democratic Rep. Bill Owens» chances of holding onto the seat he won last fall, wresting the district from GOP control for the first time since Reconstruction.

Democratic Suffolk County executive candidate Steve Bellone has launched a last - minute radio ad touting his endorsement by THE local paper of record, Newsday, as the Democrats put the finishing touches on their effort to wrest the top local elected office back from GOP hands.

His reference to having first met Teachout at a meeting of activists opposing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-- an initiative championed by former president Bill Clinton — was the closest that either one came to open criticism of the Democrat who wrested the presidential nomination away from Sanders, and who is viewed askance by many of his most ardent supporters.

Democrat Adam Haber Thursday launched his campaign for the seat held by state Sen. Jack Martins (R - Mineola), setting up what is expected to be one of the most closely watched races in the state this year as Democrats attempt to wrest control of the State Senate from Republicans.

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.

Control of the party has been challenged by two additional groups seeking to wrest power from a group led by Cuomo, leading a state Supreme Court judge to declare no one could claim leadership over the line until a majority of the candidates who ran last as WEP candidates sign off on the rules.

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

The GOP, which voted in a bloc against the marriage bill in spite of advocates» claims that there was support from four or more minority conference members for the legislation, is unlikely to engaged it fragile hold on the majority — if it manages to wrest it back from the Democrats — by taking up this controversial bill.

Cuomo was able to wrest the WFP line from Zephyr Teachout in 2014 by leveraging the support of the party's unions, whose members split power on the state committee with progressive activists.

DeFrancisco suggested during the radio interview that the accusation could be leveraged politically by progressives calling for the Senate Democrats and IDC to reunite and attempt to wrest control of the state Senate from Republicans.

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.

In 2014, Rechnitz donated another $ 102,300 toward a failed effort led by de Blasio to help Democrats wrest control of the state Senate.

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 Lib Dems are aggressively attacking Labour's record on social justice as they try to wrest from the government marginal seats represented by Labour MPs for decades.

Sambra is part of a growing movement to wrest back control over our digital lives by breaking the monopolies of the server farms and the people who own them.

Numerous recent reports by high - level study groups have examined why the United States is losing ground to foreign competitors who are poised, say the studies» authors, to wrest away the undisputed scientific preeminence it has enjoyed since the end of World War II.

The oil can be as much as a quarter of the total mass of a diatom cell, and if a way could be found to efficiently wrest it from diatoms, he adds, a hectare of «diatom cultivation could produce 10 to up to 200 times the oil that is produced by soybean cultivation,» Ramachandra says.