Sentences with phrase «who wrested»

A version of this article appears in print on December 22, 2011, on Page A35 of the New York edition with the headline: John Chamberlain, Who Wrested Rough Magic From Scrap Metal, Dies at 84.

This exhibition digs deep into the bedrock of the first American art style of international stature, formed by a hard - drinking, self - destructive band of mostly brothers who wrested a brave new style from European art, much of it set before them by — who else?

These authors ranged from the self - published to previously published authors who wrested their backlist rights away from legacy publishers for the chance to handle their own marketing, control their own retail prices, and earn 70 % royalties that allowed them to make as much per - unit on Kindle books priced under $ 5 as they had ever received from legacy publishers on print books priced five times as high.

Already a best seller in Australia (where it was published in 2005), The Secret River is the story of Grenville's ancestors, who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people.

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.

Looked jealously upon those who wrested it from us.

His reference to having first met Teachout at a meeting of activists opposing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-- an initiative championed by former president Bill Clinton — was the closest that either one came to open criticism of the Democrat who wrested the presidential nomination away from Sanders, and who is viewed askance by many of his most ardent supporters.

The Northern Kingdom fell under the aggression of Assyria (721 B.C.E.) And the Southern Kingdom fell victim to the Babylonians, who wrested the world rule from the Assyrians.

Not exact matches

Keen also finds inspiration in the United States, talking to «hacktivist» coders in Oakland and recounting the visionary ideas of John Borthwick, who founded the startup incubator Betaworks, and who offers an action plan to wrest back control of our digital lives.

Venrock vice president Marissa Campise (who sits on Ad Hoc's board) says that wresting control of phone numbers away from telecom carriers and into the hands of privacy - minded consumers was a long - overdue development.

The extraordinary criticism raised questions about whether Trump was seeking to drive his top Justice official from office as a way to wrest control of the investigation from Mueller, who was appointed after Sessions» recusal for failing to immediately disclose his meetings with Kislyak.

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 courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

These had been used when Judas Maccabaeus, the cleanser of the Temple and the Jewish hero who had wrested independence for his people from the Seleucid empire, was welcomed as a conqueror into his city (I Maccabees 13:51).

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.

The morning before, Roe had telephoned Benoit with the news that Grete Waitz of Norway, who had brought the women's record down more than nine minutes in the 1978,»79 and»80 New York Marathons and from whom Roe had wrested the mark by 13 seconds in the 1981 New York race, had that day tied the record in the London Marathon.

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.

After a difficult penultimate race day, the British duo faced an uphill battle to try and wrest gold from the grip of the Austrian defending champions Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar, who started the final 10 - boat medal race with a near insurmountable 18 point lead.

Should Ko win in South Korea this week, she would wrest the crown away from Park, who surpassed her 18 - year - old rival in June when she prevailed in the first of two major events this season.

Three - times FA Cup winner Walcott, who Everton wrested from Arsenal's clutches last month, had 63 touches of the ball in the encounter with Roy Hodgson's men — a figure put in perspective by Tottenham Hotspur's pre-eminent striker Harry Kane needing his side's recent games against Arsenal and Juventus to accumulate exactly the same number.

This black Real Madrid jersey 2011 - 2012 will be worn by the likes of Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo as Real seek to wrest the La Liga title away from arch rivals Barcelona, who will also be wearing a black away kit, albeit one made by Nike, this season.

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.

Paterson was replaced as minority leader by Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith, who made history in 2009 when the Democrats wrested control of the majority from the GOP and he became the chamber's first black majority leader.

Smith, who joined the IDC in December in a controversial move that wrested power from Senate Democrats, was -LSB-...]

We have to battle, we have to fight, we have to wrest the destiny of our nation from incompetence and from people, who have determined to run us to the ground.

Like Mr. Cohen, one of the Republican town board candidates, Mr. Larsen, mounted an unsuccessful primary challenge, trying to wrest an Independence Party ballot spot from either Mr. Bragman or Ms. Burke - Gonzalez, the Democrats who had been cross-endorsed.

Control of the party has been challenged by two additional groups seeking to wrest power from a group led by Cuomo, leading a state Supreme Court judge to declare no one could claim leadership over the line until a majority of the candidates who ran last as WEP candidates sign off on the rules.

The list of candidates who are in play include actress Kim Kardashian (275/1), World Wresting Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon (200/1), and former FBI Director James Comey (100/1).

That's despite Obama's claims this spring that the party has a «great chance» of wresting control of the House from the Republicans who have stymied much of his agenda since they took over in the 2010 midterms, and also in spite of a May Q poll that showed Democrats with a slight competitive edge on a generic congressional ballot.

Cuomo has pledged as part of his broader Albany - reform agenda to wrest the power to redraw legislative - and congressional - district lines from legislative leaders in Albany, who currently exercise control of the process through a redistricting task force whose members they appoint.

The Man Who Would Be Majority Leader, one of the nation's most powerful posts, should the Democrats wrest control of the august Upper Chamber, does have a challenger after all.

«I listened to Tulip Siddiq's interview earlier and I thought what a dignified interview it was, of someone who is having to wrest with the problem that she has and many of us have where there's a national decision made in a national referendum but her constituency very strongly voted against that.»

Klein also did indeed «alienate» swaths of people, predominantly state lawmakers who made an effort to strip the mayor of control of the school system — something he wrested from the Board of Education in 2002 when he took office.

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.

The announcement is a blow to the mainstream Democrats, who had hoped a presidential year voter turnout surge would wrest the chamber from Republican control.

Vander Plaats» possible entrance into the June primary worried some Republicans who believed he would have hurt their chances of wresting this Senate seat from Democratic hands if he had won the GOP nomination.

Ironically, he is now working feverishly to collect enough petition signatures to get himself back onto the committee along with a bevy of his loyalists who aim to wrest control from its current leadership under Reda.

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.

Sambra is part of a growing movement to wrest back control over our digital lives by breaking the monopolies of the server farms and the people who own them.

Numerous recent reports by high - level study groups have examined why the United States is losing ground to foreign competitors who are poised, say the studies» authors, to wrest away the undisputed scientific preeminence it has enjoyed since the end of World War II.

It's the rather dashing Lord Rathbone, (Aiden Gillen... but you get to know about that much later) who wants to wrest the throne from queen Victoria and also make way for his ally to become King of China.

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.

Rather, their tragic «lost» status stems from the fact that they exist only in truncated, bowdlerized form, having been wrested from the hands of their visionary directors by studio functionaries who were too craven and bottom - line - obsessed to cut these directors some auteurist slack.

Like King's attempts to wrest control of women's tennis from the regressive, reactionary men who controlled the financial structure, including prize money, change toward equality, both women's and LBGTQ, was and continues to be gradual, incremental, but rarely temporary.

Elizabeth Banks plays Melinda Ledbetter, Wilson's soul mate who attempts to wrest Brian from Dr. Landy's poisonous grip.

Society has collapsed inside the walled city of Chicago, where Evelyn (Naomi Watts), leader of the Factionless army and mother of Dauntless badass Four (Theo James), has wrested control and is holding public trials of those who did the bidding of now - dead Erudite leader Jeanine.

The film's unctious producer (Ryan O'Neal) wrests control of the final edit from its director (Eric Idle), who wants his name removed from the project.

It could be argued that it gets away from Schrader, who probably had to wrest the script from his own hands to begin shooting.