Sentences with phrase «who wrested control»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 14, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG - 13 for epic battle scenes and scary images) Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) directed this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel about a human - like creature with furry feet (Martin Freeman) who is prompted by a wizard (Ian McKellen) to embark on an epic with 13 dwarfs to wrest control of a lost kingdom from the clutches of a fearsome dragon.

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.

ADELANTO — One of the High Desert parents who used a state law to wrest control of their failing elementary school away from school district hands is alleging that the group that helped organize the effort offered to pay parents to promote the «parent trigger» movement nationwide.

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.

Of course, we must acknowledge the gap between a company's share price and its intrinsic value can sometimes be a long & difficult journey... But in terms of a key event / catalyst, this Sunday Times story (from March) is critical: «Tom Roche, the largest shareholder in NTR, has wrested back control of his 38 % stake in the investment firm after a receiver was appointed to the company that holds the stock... It is understood Roche had been seeking a substantial discount on the borrowings guaranteed by shares in NTR... Roche, who is the chairman of NTR, won a last - minute reprieve by writing a cheque for the full amount of the loans last Monday».

Some seek to control the power of Chaotics, there are those who seek to wrest control from the government, and others still are in it for simple financial gain.

Who can step in and wrest control of the city back for its people, its community?

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer London corporate head Mark Rawlinson is one of a group of high - profile City businessmen who have formed a group — dubbed the «Red Knights» — in a bid to wrest control of Manchester United FC from current owner Malcolm Glazer.