Sentences with phrase «wrest control away»

I submit that to wrest control away from the sellers is to deflect and they know it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The proposal to create an «achievement school district» that wrests control of low - performing schools away from local school boards and into the hands of charter operators is being developed behind closed doors as the legislative session marches on, with numerous lawmakers and advocates working in tandem on successive drafts of the legislation.

But backed by teachers» unions and some dissatisfied parents, and promoted through a series of house parties, four candidates are now trying to wrest control of the board away from reformers.

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.

If you are a giant corporation that is used to controlling the marketplace to a large extent — both in terms of supply and in terms of pricing — then watching a new competitor wrest some of that control away from you is hard to do.

Craftsman - oriented companies will wrest control of the genre away from Nintendo.

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

The idea is that gamers moving from room to room, or unable to wrest control of the TV away from family members can continue to enjoy their console.

It's a sign, perhaps, the adults have wrested control of the province's energy management away from the politicians.