Sentences with phrase «usurp control»

Gevers, in turn, alleged that the Breitmans were seeking to usurp control of the non-profit foundation.

By the time the Roman Empire sought to usurp control of the kingdom in 70 AD, broad forests of these trees flourished as a staple crop to the Judean economy — a fact that made them a prime resource for the invading army to destroy.

However, there is another level of technopower in the hands of «hackers» - those who have a high level of expertise in computer technology and are able to infiltrate and usurp control of cyberspace at will (precisely what has happened recently when Yahoo! was suspended for over three hours due to a hacker «prank.»)

Your presence on the project means you could be stealing some of their thunder or usurping control, especially if they're at or beyond the limits of their abilities.

Not exact matches

Beyoncé has usurped near - total control of her career and image, firing a series of managers (including father Mathew Knowles, ousted in 2011) along the way.

But what if the story is more interested in the usurping of power, the annihilation of controlling people, and the end of deceit to achieve noble ends?

God's control is not to impose or dictate or usurp or destroy.

Such an attraction is not a controlling or usurping of our own free determination of how that relationship will actually turn out.

Some (not all, but many) have certainly been usurped to to «control the masses,» but that was not the originating point.

«It appears there's an overreach by government usurping local control,» said Rick Timbs, Statewide School Finance Consortium executive director.

I hope he wins just for the entertainment of seeing the current Repub leadership wiggles and squirms as they try to control their new cadre of home - grown political terrorists ------------------------------------------------- — Abso - freaking - lutely!!!!! At the very least I would be pleased to see him usurp Palin's bogus headlines with something that the GOP couldn't just quietly brush under the rug, hush - up, or justify even to most inbred of their base.

According to pro-PGS activists, this sector of the union movement have employed tactics such as collaborating with state bureaucracy, overtly attacking worker control experiments, and setting up alternative «working groups» to usurp the process from within.

«This would be the worst case scenario as the local government's power and control would be usurped — the city embarrassed — and the residents would essentially be in the hands of this federal government.»

A separate attempt to usurp Cuomo's control of the party was made earlier this summer, when two Republican clerks sought to have the rules he signed off on scrapped.

The enigmatic and mysterious Adele finally makes a power play and usurps Jenny as the director of «Lez Girls,» while Bette finalizes her breakup with Jodi, and a distressed Kit loses financial control of The Planet to Dawn and Cindi.

Their first big mission ends up being taking down the evil, ancient entity known as Enchantress, who has usurped, for spells, the body of a scientist named Dr. June Moone (Delevingne, Paper Towns)-- an entity once controlled by Waller but she managed to finally break free from the curse that bound her.

«Gods of Egypt» stars Gerard Butler as Set, the Egyptian god of Darkness, who usurps the ruler of Egypt so that he may have control of the land.

It's a film composed entirely of interiors, of totally controlled environments in which control is irrevocably usurped.

Cartel Land is keen to show how information and rumors travel through the militia and the towns they come to control: photos of beheaded citizens pop up on smartphones; at impromptu public forums held in town squares, citizens both praise and condemn Mireles's usurping of federal authority; his soldiers, meanwhile, pick up suspected criminals on hunches, and won't relent without a confession.

Will it usurp local control over curriculum?

As for Jay, maybe the loss of parental control is a real issue, but why do parents in Montclair, for example, feel that their power is being usurped much more so than parents in other states?

Common Core advocates continue to insist that Common Core does not usurp local control of curriculum, but in practice high - stakes tests keyed to the Common Core standards ensure that curriculum will follow.

Usurp local control on workplace standards.

He said the idea of a second resolution was the result of pressure, much of it from out - of - state groups who view the standards as federal mandates that usurp local control.

The California Teachers Association local set up an entity called «Teachers for Local Control,» obviously a union - front group, whose goal is to dump the reformers based on the premise that they are «intent on destroying local control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.Control,» obviously a union - front group, whose goal is to dump the reformers based on the premise that they are «intent on destroying local control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.control, devastating public education and usurping and overturning the wisdom of locally elected trustees.»

He contends the move to enlist charters is not evidence - based, would not be financially attractive to charter operators, would cause chaos in the lives of our most vulnerable students while further damaging neighborhoods, would usurp local elected school board control, and would not solve the challenging problems presented by low - performing, high - poverty schools.

Although Adamowski doesn't actually have the authority to «offer regional out - of - district» options to Windham students, funded by Windham taxpayers but not accessible to all students in an equitable manner, he is doing so anyway; Although Adamowski is not authorized to do so, he is eliminating bilingual education and putting a Band - Aid in its place; Although Adamowski doesn't have the authority to do so, he forced TFA on Windham; Although Adamowski doesn't actually have the authority to do it, he is interfering with other, non-Education Boards and Councils in the Town of Windham; Although Adamowski doesn't have the authority or power to do it, he has usurped the Board of Education completely and they have sat by and let it happen; Although Adamowski has no business interfering, he is trying to get charter reform that includes either mayoral control of the BoE or an appointed BoE in Windham.

Several studies of LSC reform conclude that site - based management under parent - majority LSCs successfully raised academic achievement.3 Further study showed that schools where LSCs were allowed to continue as the main policy - making body for the school after mayoral control was established in 1995 improved substantially more than schools where the district intervened and usurped LSC control.4

By the same token, recognizing that an epiphany may usurp authority from a larger work allows you to control that potential.

While VantageScore is used by around 3,000 lenders, it still has a ways to go before usurping FICO control.

Players control Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, a young king who was usurped from his castle and sets out to reclaim his kingdom.

His costume requirement usurps the viewer's control.

She titled this show «Usurpico,» a combination of «Serpico» and «usurped» that could mean any number of things; it could refer, of course, to the legendary whistleblower cop Frank Serpico, or it could suggest taking control without regard for protocol.

EPA just issued new CO2 controls for new coal fired power plants which is usurping Congressional authority.

Speakers questioned the notion of regional planning, claiming that top - down planning would usurp local control.

By collecting our data and using it for their own profit, companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, and other service providers have become data tyrants, usurping what little control we have over our generated data.

The whole point of bitcoin, after all, is that it was designed to usurp central control.