Sentences with phrase «not wrest»

Furthermore, reason could not wrest from nature the mysteries of the Trinity or the two natures of Christ.

Not exact matches

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).

How did she manage to wrest payment from Enron when so many others couldn't?

It's not glamourous, rewarding or even very interesting, but that's a lot of what living abroad is — looking stupid, trying to look less stupid, terrible loneliness, fleeting successes, and insights that seemed difficult to wrest.

«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.

All in all, if the kid has a problem with wresting girls, then don't join the wrestling team.

It is not the job of parents to protect children from the truth, especially when they are caught in the middle of messy and painful circumstances in which one party has so clearly attempted to wrest control of the narrative to salvage his own reputation.

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.

What we are doing is to wrest this from the grasp of those who know not its proper use.

The human difference is this: If the Messiah has not yet appeared, then the world is still profane, and our task is to wrest him forth, to go and fetch him, so to speak — to do what is necessary to bring him on.

It must keep its eye on heaven, but it must not fail to see the world at hand and seek to enable persons to wrest meaning and significance from their lives in it.

But understood in the context of our joyful «play,» this advice to work takes on a new perspective.0 ur toil is not meant to master life; it is not for the purpose of wresting the key to salvation from life itself.

«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.»

The gracious character of the promise implies that we ourselves are not in a position to wrest any revelation from the heart of mystery.

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.

Chase Utley was the most notable, but for the most part, it's an uphill battle for kids who weren't athletic enough to wrest control of the shortstop position at Iona College.

would wenger spend that sort of money on a defender??? nahh he has» nt spent that sort of money on a a striker, But Sven Mislintat may do come the summer, Control of the transfer policy has been gradually being wrested from Wengers tight little grip, but rome wasnt built in a day and the board are still in the tail end of Wenger mode.

Please don't be afraid to stop over and say hello to me, especially if you're interested in wresting for me.

It won't be long before Arsenal finally launch the offensive to wrest the EPL trophy from the big spenders who have distorted the game.

Jurgen Klopp has said Liverpool do not fear the challenge of trying to wrest the Premier League title from a Manchester City team he expects will be even stronger next season.

And if Kanye is wresting with the «strain, anxiety, and dread» of married life, monogamy and fatherhood, well, that isn't the only way to be married.

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.

Although that's not to say they don't still have their work cut out for them as they prepare for a re-match in hopes of wresting control of the chamber back from the GOP in 2012.

There's only one problem with this: While it's true that Spitzer pushed very hard to help the Democrats in their quest to wrest the Senate from GOP hands and poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into that effort, they didn't actually succeed until 2008 — and we all know how that turned out in the end.

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.

He warned that it would not be possible for Mr Cameron to wrest back powers unless he holds a referendum to give him public backing.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has been the most powerful Bronx official since he wrested control of the county's Democrats in 2008, but he hasn't had much of a chance to shape its delegation in the Senate.

They couldn't play their hand too hard because they need two things from Cuomo that are only tacitly promisable: Cover during redistricting, which Cuomo wants to wrest from their hands, and a non-aggression pact in next year's election.

The AG declined to criticize Cuomo for failing to wrest a more significant reform deal from the Legislature, saying the governor had a «lot of things on his plate» and an unusually difficult legislative session that saw the ouster of not one, but two conference leaders as a result of corruption scandals.

Mr. Dinizo doesn't hide his displeasure with Mr. Hughes» efforts to wrest the Conservative line away from the incumbent.

At this morning's delegation breakfast in Clearwater, House Speaker John Boehner talked up VPOTUS nominee Paul Ryan and New York's having wrested a good handful of Congressional seats from Democrats in 2010, but didn't have much to say at all about Republican Wendy Long's chances against incumbent Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Ben Walsh, who is not enrolled in a party, is waging a write - in campaign trying to wrest the Independence Party nomination from Republican candidate Laura Lavine.

One expert not involved with the paper praised it for using «apparently rigorous» statistical analysis to wrest revealing information from the Sandy Hook tragedy.

But so far, Republicans haven't outlined a plan to wrest control of the agreement away from an administration that insists it has signed off on one that does not require Senate approval.

And so it all becomes a great political calculation as the man balances the fact that hundreds, if not thousands, of lives are being lost daily while he has to stall peace to wrest into being one of the greatest and most important changes in American history.

But of all those jealously eyeing the director's megaphone (metaphorical sadly, they seem to have gone the way of the plus - four as part of the director's standard kit) perhaps those with the most reason to be covetous are the screenwriters, the hardy souls who turn in 120 - page draft after draft, only to have their baby wrested from their grasp and dressed up, maybe brilliantly but often not, in clothes they might not have chosen themselves.

Not even the best efforts of the always - excellent Guy Pearce can save what is in essence a pathetic cutting - room attempt to wrest the movie back from the abyss of a director suffering a nervous breakdown with eighteen days to go in the shooting schedule and a governing philosophy that believes Orlando Jones would make a good HAL - 9000.

Molly isn't reduced, simplified or sentimentalized by her reckonings with the past, and the victory she wrests from the closing scenes is nothing if not fully earned.

Don had come to wrest Gal out of retirement, to recruit him for one more heist, and he was not one to take no for an answer.

Last — and certainly not least — comes (in every sense of the word) producer and Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, who wrested control of the film from Brass and then shot and edited in some balls - out (literally) hardcore pornography.

I was lucky enough to meet Brazier in 2010, not long before he died, at a thrilling Harlem Children's Zone conclave in Manhattan, an event crowded with African - Americans, including members of a presidential administration led by a man who had, finally, wrested power from that white society.

«We expect our teachers to reportthings they see, hear, or read,» says JohnSawchuk, principal of Columbia HighSchool, in East Greenbush, New York.In February 2004, he tackled a sixteen - year - old school shooter and wrested a12 - gauge shotgun from him, but not before the student, JonRomano, fired a shot that struck a teacher in the leg.

When we make policy in terms of who among us wrests the power to impose a narrow version of the «right» answer, what we get is a new round of arguing and resistance — not the constructive change students need.

Pontiac doesn't have the factory capacity to build enough Grand Prixes to wrest the title from the Taurus, but if buyers like the new car, the automaker can drain enough sales from the Taurus to propel the Accord to the top spot.

On Mike Shatzkin's blog, he speculated that the publishers» decision to delay the e-book versions of some major upcoming titles isn't «a battle to rescue hardcover books from price perception issues caused by inexpensive ebooks» so much as it is about «wresting control of their ebook destinies back from Amazon.»

Should a problem arise that makes it impossible, those possessions will not usually be wrested from your ownership.

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.

On the other, it challenges a wider public to consider these props as something more, attempting impossibly to wrest them from their Hollywood context for a deeper consideration, which they may not be deserving of.

... My cybernetic mosses, wrested from my control, molded themselves into a strange and glittering medium that was not unlike flesh.

Shock, lack, and the abyssal wail remain in force then wrest control, but such discord is not well captured by mere fracture.