Sentences with phrase «just wrested»

A new generation of atomic tickers, known as optical clocks, have just wrested the record for accuracy from the ensembles of oscillating caesium atoms that held it for half a century.

The Democrats had just wrested control of the chamber from the GOP's hands, but the margin was slim enough that defection of a few key Democrats could have kept Skelos in power.

Not exact matches

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.

Is he likely to be our owner one day or is he just dreaming that he can wrest control of the club from Kroenke?

You might not think a book about the struggle to wrest six thousand acres of Lake Michigan dunes from development and preserve it as a public place would be suspenseful adventure story, but Traverse City author heather Shumaker promises just that - a riveting story that spans decades about a small community of people who preserve a beloved tract against all odds.

There are actually sticks designed specifically for stick wresting, but you can even just use a strong broomstick cut down to about 30 - 36 inches long and taped up with some athletic tape to prevent splinters.

He's come to the vast eponymous estate at the behest of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to assess the psychological state of the heiress (Helen Mirren), whose ongoing pet project — and her habit of roaming the twisting halls at all hours and in all black, like an apparition herself — has left the board concerned about her well - being, or perhaps just salivating at the opportunity to wrest away her 50 - percent stake in the company.

Well, amid years of swirling rumors over differing creative visions at Marvel Studios, the most damning evidence was perhaps the email that emerged just four months before Feige wrested away control.

WHAT IT»S ABOUT With Lucious (Terrence Howard) in jail, Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) holds a «Free Lucious» concert, which is just a big ploy to get the big money interested in her gambit to wrest Empire away from him.

It's just a matter of time like sanity is wrested by a nightmare born on Shakhter - One.

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.

You could just end up maimed and bloodied before you wrest the cleaver away.