Sentences with phrase «help wrest control»

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.

Elliott owns 9 percent of the former state phone monopoly and is calling on other investors to help it wrest control away from French media group Vivendi, which effectively runs Telecom Italia as its top shareholder with a 24 percent stake.

Elliott owns 9 percent of the former state phone monopoly and is calling on other investors to help it wrest control...

Not exact matches

Solid as ever in front of the back - line, Matic helped calm things down during the Bournemouth onslaught, slowing the tempo of the game to wrest control of the proceedings.

But Democrats say voter dissatisfaction with Washington Republicans and President Donald Trump could help them win more seats in November and wrest control from the GOP.

Days before the April 19 special election on Long Island to replace ex-Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's chief fundraiser procured a publicly untraceable $ 50,000 donation to help Senate Democrats wrest control of the key district.

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 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.

But it's unclear if the uproar will actually change how people behave online or help them wrest more control over their data.

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.

The father of two children, including a fifth - grader at Desert Trails Elementary School, he helped lead the effort for local parents to use California's parent trigger laws, which allows parents who gather sufficient signatures to wrest control of their school away from officials and, in this case, turn it over to a Hesperia charter school operator at the end of this school year.

ADELANTO — One of the High Desert parents who used a state law to wrest control of their failing elementary school away from school district hands is alleging that the group that helped organize the effort offered to pay parents to promote the «parent trigger» movement nationwide.

There is nothing you can do about your age or the amount of driving experience you might have, but being aware that it can work in your favor (or against you) can help you to wrest a little more control over your premiums.