Sentences with phrase «wrest away»

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.

If your book is under an exclusive contract, the prospect of republishing your book could be of less interest to a traditional publisher since it could take legal action to wrest it away from the original publishing group or service.

He's come to the vast eponymous estate at the behest of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company to assess the psychological state of the heiress (Helen Mirren), whose ongoing pet project — and her habit of roaming the twisting halls at all hours and in all black, like an apparition herself — has left the board concerned about her well - being, or perhaps just salivating at the opportunity to wrest away her 50 - percent stake in the company.

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.

By 4:30 a.m. EST today, even with many individual contests unknown, it was apparent the GOP had wrested away control of the Senate from the Democrats and gained even more control in the House.

Tobe Hooper was still in an experimental phase after «Poltergeist» was wrested away from him by producer Steven Spielberg.

It's a lot of heavy lifting and heavy breathing from Lawrence (she reportedly tore her diaphragm and dislocated a rib during shooting), forced to weigh her devotion to her husband and propriety with the growing rage and hopelessness that bubbles up as control is wrested away from her.

Well, amid years of swirling rumors over differing creative visions at Marvel Studios, the most damning evidence was perhaps the email that emerged just four months before Feige wrested away control.

Android - based tablets have wrested away 20 percent of worldwide market share from the Apple iPad in the past 12 months, according to ABI Research.

Rockstar are classic control freaks and their major problem has always been wresting away too much control from players.

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!

A construction in 2009 extended Central Park to the roof of the Met, but could it return to nature what arts institutions had wrested away?

In Ghana, BioFuel Africa wrested away land clearing and usage rights from a village chief who could neither read nor write.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

It's also driven the digital wedge deeper in some organizations, as CTOs use its dependency on technology to wrest more power away from the marketing department.

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.

«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.»

This next theory suggests that there might've been some sort of intentional Steve Harvey situation here, wherein ESPN wrested the results away from the committee and staged a palace coup to keep the Buckeyes on the outside looking in.

Some day, perhaps when Bobby becomes world champion by wresting that crown away from the Russians (as we American chess players fondly hope), it would be pleasant to think of him becoming Sportsman of the Year.

Is Aries finally going to wrest the Cruiserweight Championship from Neville here, or will Neville finally pull out all the stops — even the ones the fans he loathes like seeing — in order to finally put Aries away for good?

With only six matches to play, United will both need to improve their form and hope that City slip up in order to wrest the final UCL qualifying position away from their fierce rivals.

Durant would immediately come the other way and drill a three to cut the Mavs» lead to one before Felton and Adams decided (or neglected to decide) the game, so that Matthews play — to contest a shot, wrest a possession away, then go coast - to - coast — made the difference.

and was immediately engulfed by a tide of fans trying to wrest the ball away.

The Thunder's mercurial point guard has wrested the spotlight away from his MVP teammate through sheer force of will and with absurd amounts of intensity.

The Italians were badly beaten on the night but Koulibaly has been lauded as one of Napoli's best players this season as they try to wrest the Serie A title away from Juventus.

«It was certainly a goal coming into this week,» said Spieth, whose T7 finish in China was good enough to wrest No. 1 away from Day once again.

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.

Los Blancos are only one point behind Atletico and Barcelona and one big signing could be enough for them to wrest this year's La Liga title away from their two biggest rivals.

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.

Saudi Arabia, fearful of Iran's growing influence in the region, wants to wrest control of Qatar away from Tehran.

Indeed, the recent establishment of the Green Climate Fund over the past two years, intended to govern an anticipated $ 100bn a year in climate finance flows by 2020, can be read as the fulfilment of this long - standing aspiration for wresting finance oversight away from existing institutions — especially the World Bank.

IT»S BACK... «Texas Democrats look to single - payer in congressional races,» by Renuka Rayasam: «Democrats hoping to wrest congressional seats away from diehard repeal - and - replace Republicans are campaigning on an unlikely issue for Texas — single - payer health care.

In 2006, he wrested the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination away from Joe Lieberman, but lost to the incumbent in the general election.

With a little over three months to go until Election Day, Democrat Domenic Recchia, hoping to wrest the congressional seat that covers Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Staten Island away from Republican Michael Grimm, focused his campaign on the Brooklyn end of the two - borough district on Saturday, organizing a group of volunteers to go door to door for him to talk to voters.

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.

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

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.

He backed democratic candidates in an unsuccessful attempt to wrest control away from the GOP.

He backed Democratic candidates in an unsuccessful attempt to wrest control away from the GOP.

Without giving too much away, the book's last act describes a sort of utopian solution to things, an eco-motivated populist uprising that results in nation - states wresting control of the global financial system away from transnational banks and corporations.

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.

NASA's next Red Planet orbiter, Mars Odyssey, eventually wrested the longevity record away from MGS.

L&T is getting away with a tiny slap on the wrest.

Killer Joe sets the scene for a killer noir, with some killer lines and killer characters, but Friedkin's energy and determination to wrest the story away from the stage and set it free in the cinema deserts him in the final act.

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

It's a climactic scene featuring his character that nearly drives the movie off the rails, clumsily wresting the story away from Blunt at the worst possible moment.

After being injured in North Africa, von Stauffenberg is recruited to the German Resistance, eventually becoming the leader of a group responsible for an elaborate attempt to assassinate Hitler and wrest control of Germany away from the SS.

Will the Devil be able to wrest the Bible away before Eli reaches what's left of the Bay Area?