Sentences with phrase «which wrested»

The party, which wrested power from the Congress in in Rajasthan in 2013, had 161 MLAs in the House of 200.

Labour have increased their grip on Cambridge City Council which they wrested from Lib Dem control in 2012.

Heastie said he will give up his post as head of the Bronx County Democratic Party, which he wrested from Assemblyman Jose Rivera in 2008 after several of the organization's primary candidates were defeated.

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).

Recent research from the DEA indicates that the cartels are now producing white - powder heroin from opium cultivated in Mexico, which could allow them to wrest control of the production process away from South Americans, target new customers, and keep more of the profits from heroin sales.

The company, which became the top PC vendor in the second quarter, wresting the lead from Lenovo, has now shown growth in its global PC shipments for five straight quarters.

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.

The contest is largely between the All Progressives Congress, an amalgam of four opposition parties that is bent on wresting power from the ruling center - right People's Democratic Party, which has been in power since 1999, when the country returned to civilian rule.

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.

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.

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.

As soon as I wrest my camera back from the teenager, I'm going to take a walking tour of my little town, which boasts a surprising number of lovely churches, excluding my own, which really does have a great personality.

Niederhoffer — the only player to wrest the North American Open title from Khan in the»70s, which he accomplished in 1975 — thinks there are similarities between playing squash and dealing on the commodities market: the pressure, the necessity for making quick decisions, the elbowing for position.

says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

George Albro of New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

Glen suspects the proposal has something to do with whatever new revenue the state is able to wrest from the city as part of its «New York Pennsylvania Station Area Redevelopment Project,» which would roughly span 30th to 34th streets, 6th to 8th avenues.

KINGSTON >> The state GOP is going all in in the race for the 41st District state Senate seat, which Republican Sue Serino is trying to wrest from incumbent Democrat Terry Gipson.

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.

Later in the fall, the Rainbow Rebel coalition, which Diaz backed, wrested control of the Bronx Democratic party from Joel's father, Assemblyman Jose Rivera, changing the power dynamics in the borough.

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.

Red Horse Strategies, which played a big role in the 2008 cycle when the Democrats wrested control of the Senate from the GOP, is no longer contracted to work with the conference, although it is still working with individual lawmakers and also is repping independent LG hopeful Bill Samuels.

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.

The Eternal Flame of Freedom is near the National Republican Victory Monument, which commemorates the 1994 «Republican Revolution,» when the GOP wrested control of Congress out of Democratic hands.

But this «unilateral restructuring» has angered the ANC which sees it as an attempt to wrest control of science from its future government.

Its positive effect on our stress response helps battle depression, which can seriously wrest from our motivation to stick to a regular workout routine.

In the final scene of Kate Plays Christine, which Greene leaves up to Sheil to improvise, the actress wrests control of the film from him.

This week, I spoke with Sheridan from the Park City, Utah, set of his upcoming TV show, Yellowstone, about how he wrested control of the movie, which stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as investigators probing the suspicious death of a young Native American woman, away from the Weinsteins.

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.

Risk - taking charter school operator Steve Barr is launching an effort through which parents would wrest political control of the L.A. school system from unions, school bureaucrats and other entrenched interests.

But all we get here is the most blithe and moronic kind of «let's put on a show» magical thinking, in which ripping up the union contract and wresting control of the school from the bureaucrats becomes an end in itself, and what happens later is shrouded in the mists of an imaginary libertarian paradise.

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.

In addition, it's getting harder and harder for traditionally published authors to wrest their rights back from publishers, which is undoubtedly cutting down on the number of backlist titles being newly self - published.

Amazon» HTML5 Kindle move was widely expected as an increasing number of companies are developing Web - based HTML5 apps to wrest more control from Apple, which must approve every app that ends up in the Apple App Store.

Then 27 years old, he was in his first campaign as an activist investor, trying to wrest control of a small company named InfuSystem (INFU), which provides and services pumps used in chemotherapy.

Wresting the launcher around the screen is about as graceful an experience as trying a thread a needle which wearing boxing gloves — it's possible, yet a lot of people are going to be accidentally punched in the process.

Leveling up your team unlocks new parts in the store and lets you try to wrest areas of the world map away from other teams in Conquest mode, which you'll then add to your growing territory to defend from similar player - led incursions.

This was after ONM in the United Kingdom was wrested away from EMAP, which was a shame, cos it was getting increasingly avant and wacky!

In this current age of techno - dependency, «Pictures from the Moon» offers a view of the persistent attempts by artists to wrest something more from technology than that for which it was invented.

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.

Wrested back from forces which in recent decades rendered it nostalgic, the body as a medium is ripe for art historical revisiting.

Each and every day seven billion of us hope to feed ourselves, slake our thirst, and wrest our energy needs from the Earth, even as we strive to protect the ecosystem services on which we depend and build resilience to Earth's hazards.

«The purpose of the Compendium of Meteorology is to take stock of the present position of meteorology, to summarize an appraise the knowledge which untiring research has been able to wrest from nature during past years, and to indicate the avenues of further studies and research which need to be explored in order to extend the frontiers of our knowledge.»

Now, adding fuel to the fire, while investors expected OPEC to stabilize markets, as usual, the cartel announced after its November meeting that it would not cut supply to support prices and the Saudi oil minister stated there would be no intervention in oil markets even if prices dropped to $ 20 a barrel — at which point animal spirits and hedge funds betting on continued oil price increases wrested control from supply / demand fundamentals.

But rival real estate firms are now expected to try to wrest away from Jones Lang its management of 190 S. LaSalle St., where Jones Lang recently considered moving and which is facing the loss of a major tenant.