Sentences with phrase «wrest control from»

They have managed to wrest control from the population through intimidation and fear.

There is little hope that even a universally - admired Republican like Colin Powell could rise up to wrest control from the Plutocrats.

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.

We the people need to wrest control from the teachers» unions and demand serious reform immediately.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

Oscar - winner Marisa Tomei is as Mimi Whiteman, a billionaire lesbian courted to wrest control from Lucious.

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.

But traditional Democrats hope to win enough seats in November to wrest control from Republicans.

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.

«For liberalism to survive, it's thinkers and activists will need to wrest control from those so mired in the Westminster bubble that they can'tree that the sands have already shifted.»

But Democrats say voter dissatisfaction with Washington Republicans and President Donald Trump could help them win more seats in November and wrest control from the GOP.

You have to be mindful that others are going to try and thwart your mission and wrest control from you.»

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.

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.

They are wresting control from advertisers, children, etc..

Gradually or brutally they wrested control from female hands.

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.

As Dellsperger slips his players into film history he somehow reasserts the reader as writer, wresting control from the dominating media and allowing for more erratic forms of beauty.

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 the USA, Zillow wrested control from the Realtor.

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.

Turkey has threatened to march on Manbij and wrest it from Kurdish hands after its forces won a resounding victory over Kurdish fighters earlier this month and took control of Afrin, a town 60 miles (100 kilometers) to the west.

Only this January, following the threat from the opposition parties to form a coalition and wrest control of Parliament from the Conservatives, did the government unveil a $ 35 - billion stimulus package including $ 18 billion in infrastructure spending.

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.

The Shanghai oil futures contract is similarly designed to wrest some control over pricing from the main benchmarks in New York and London — West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent — and to promote the use of the yuan, also known as the renminbi.

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.

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.

It is not the job of parents to protect children from the truth, especially when they are caught in the middle of messy and painful circumstances in which one party has so clearly attempted to wrest control of the narrative to salvage his own reputation.

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).

Epicureanism offers the fundamentally sad satisfaction of wresting a moment of disciplined control from a finally doomed chaos.

As the architects of this secular society well knew, it could be built only by wresting from the Church control over two basic social institutions: marriage and the education of the young.

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.

Last Wednesday, Bud Selig and Major League Baseball basically seized control of the Los Angeles Dodgers, wresting the organization from the hands of Frank McCourt.

Is he likely to be our owner one day or is he just dreaming that he can wrest control of the club from Kroenke?

would wenger spend that sort of money on a defender??? nahh he has» nt spent that sort of money on a a striker, But Sven Mislintat may do come the summer, Control of the transfer policy has been gradually being wrested from Wengers tight little grip, but rome wasnt built in a day and the board are still in the tail end of Wenger mode.

Meanwhile, the Oilers visit the Ducks at home hoping to wrest control of their series back from Anaheim.

Members of the park board promised to hire a professional administrator when they wrested control of the park district from former General Supt. Edmund Kelly in June, 1986.

Some of the same arguments — efficiency and cost - savings — were used in 1968 to wrest control of Monroe Harbor from private management and turn it over to the pols.

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.

Much of the dispute has become territorial, with Cuomo and Christie reportedly trying to wrest control of the memorial from Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office.

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.

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

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.

says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

«I went to court to try to wrest control of the party from him and to put it in the hands of actual Women's Equality Party members.»

George Albro of New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

Democrats hope to wrest back control of the redistricting process from Republicans ahead of 2020 census

Dohney went on to accuse Hoffman of breaking his word by agreeing to run on Row D even if he didn't get the Republican nod, thereby improving Democratic Rep. Bill Owens» chances of holding onto the seat he won last fall, wresting the district from GOP control for the first time since Reconstruction.

His departure could handicap Democrats» efforts to wrest control of the Senate from Republicans.