Sentences with phrase «wrest control»

Although that's not to say they don't still have their work cut out for them as they prepare for a re-match in hopes of wresting control of the chamber back from the GOP in 2012.

The Reform Party survived a bout of infighting late last year as a group of newcomers wrested control from the party's leaders in a fight that ended up in Albany courts.

Todd D. Kaminsky, a Democratic Assemblyman and former federal corruption prosecutor who billed his campaign as a mission to clean up Albany from the inside, had a slight edge in the race for Mr. Skelos's former State Senate seat on the South Shore of Long Island; his win could help Democrats wrest control of the Senate from Republicans.

I was initially confused as to why the game occasionally wrested control away from me before I tinkered in the options and discovered Smart Steering accidentally.

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.

Fueled by camapign cash that Spitzer, who was very interested in wresting control of the Senate from the GOP, the Democrats won the seat in a 2007 special election, elevating Democratic Nassau County Legislator Craig Johnson to the state legislative post.

By 1786, Great Britain had formally wrested control over the area from Spain and began administering the region as a colony.

At first glance, observers could be forgiven for assuming the current contest at Cypress follows something of an established path: Dissatisfied with the company's cultural shift in his absence, a spurned founder / CEO attempts to wrest control back from the board responsible for his ouster, presumably in service of reinstating the tone and tenor of the prior regime.

This is a bigger GOP lead than in 1994, the last time Republicans wrested control of Congress from Democrats.

It was an evening that saw the GOP expand its control of the House of Representatives while also wresting control of the U.S. Senate.

Republicans hold a narrow 32 - 30 majority and while Cuomo has worked well with GOP lawmakers in that chamber during his freshman year, questions remain over how involved he'll become in wresting control for his own party.

With that statement, Jobs acknowledged his understanding that the Publisher Defendants would now wrest control of pricing from Amazon and raise e-book prices, and that Apple would not have to face any competition from Amazon on price.

Rogers / Captain America counters that accepting the UN's proposal is a moral and political lose - lose, shifting responsibility for lost lives from the Avengers to their supervisors while wresting control of the superheroes» powers from their own hands.

Col. Muammar el - Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into hiding after rebels toppled his regime two months ago in the Arab Spring's most tumultuous uprising, was killed Thursday as fighters battling the vestiges of his loyalist forces wrested control of his hometown of Surt, the interim government announced.

The fix is to wrest that control out of those hands and transfer it to a regional government that internalizes a broader set of interests.

The Pakistani army wrested control of Swat back from the Taliban in 2009 and the area remains mostly peaceful, but the Taliban still occasionally launch attacks including one on the military a few weeks ago.

The essays in Smith's persuasive book mostly concern how one collection of influential males (the new academic secularists) successfully wrested control of the institutions of national culture from another collection of influential males (the old Protestant leaders).

Wiltshire residents who commuted in order to work for other businesses had recently wrested control of the town from citizens loyal to the old Adams Company.

Last year, the village suggested wresting control of the Park District from the Park District Board in hopes of running the district more cheaply.

Refusing to take a nap is one way your toddler wrests control from you.

Three years ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrested control of the NYRA board and charged it with returning the firm to private hands by this month.

Walcott became chancellor in 2011, but he'd been at Bloomberg's side since the mayor wrested control of the city's public school system from the state in 2002.

The Democrats had just wrested control of the chamber from the GOP's hands, but the margin was slim enough that defection of a few key Democrats could have kept Skelos in power.

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.

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.

The Republican Party wrested control of the U.S. House of Representatives from the Democrats, who had held power across both houses of Congress and the White House since President Barack Obama's election in 2008.

Transfixing images accumulate as we get gently dragged deeper into Drift — and that's before the film's turning point, when the soundscape slowly slips from the diegetic into electronic abstraction and the sea wrests control of the helm and we really start to lose our sense of time and space.

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.

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.

The big problem, though, is the film's implicit suggestion that the parent trigger is a solution in and of itself; if parents and good - hearted teachers can only wrest control away from the bureaucracy and the unions, the schools will improve.

Mr. Fulop said he supports wresting control of city schools from the state eventually, but his initial plans include diverting a portion of local revenues collected from tax - abated properties to city - school recreational programs and finding space for more charter schools (the city has about 10 charters now, with one slated to close.)

Shock, lack, and the abyssal wail remain in force then wrest control, but such discord is not well captured by mere fracture.

It was born the Legal Aid Board (LAB) in 1988, undoubtedly a welcome arrival as it effectively wrested control of legal aid from lawyers and, in particular, Chancery Lane.

It's not going to win any awards for the writing and some of the coolest moments wrest control right out of your hands, but, overall it's a pretty dang intriguing adventure.

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.

In 2014, Rechnitz donated another $ 102,300 toward a failed effort led by de Blasio to help Democrats wrest control of the state Senate.

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

I'm just angry enough to demand to know what it is that publishers think they provide to an author that is so very excellent that publishers should keep the rights to an author's work for lifetime + 70 years (and / or make them pay an attorney to crawl through the contract to wrest control back from publishers like Joe did).

More upgrades for your trusty ship, «Jackdaw» to help wrest control of the seas in naval battles.

Investors in five of Concrete's Calgary - area office buildings and strip malls worth some $ 110 million, by contrast, were successful in wresting control from Concrete Equities, as detailed in a Canadian Business feature story from 2012.

The first player can also wrest control of Cappy back from the second player whenever he wants.

At the same time, the defeated Prince Charming (voiced by Rupert Everett) assembles a team of fairy - tale villains to attack the kingdom and wrest control for himself.

In evolutionary terms, the ability to change one type of cell into others — including a sperm or egg cell, or even an embryo — means that humans can now wrest control of reproduction away from nature, notes Robert Lanza, a scientist at Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts.

Founder and CEO Dan Tocchini IV says his goal is to enable business owners to wrest control from web designers and template - driven website services.