Sentences with phrase «wrest into»

And so it all becomes a great political calculation as the man balances the fact that hundreds, if not thousands, of lives are being lost daily while he has to stall peace to wrest into being one of the greatest and most important changes in American history.

How dare we wrest into our own hands the divine prerogative of life and death?»

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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.

It's just death and resurrection, over and over again, day after day, as God reaches down into our deepest graves and with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead wrests us from our pride, our apathy, our fear, our prejudice, our anger, our hurt, and our despair.

wresting from it, by force of attraction, a long, cigar - shaped filament which in the course of time broke up into a string of separate globes.

The Christian without God is a waiting man for Altizer, daring to descend into the darkness, grappling with all that is profane to wrest from it its potential sacral power.

These had been used when Judas Maccabaeus, the cleanser of the Temple and the Jewish hero who had wrested independence for his people from the Seleucid empire, was welcomed as a conqueror into his city (I Maccabees 13:51).

«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.

The heart of this book is the story of how David Cameron wrested the party from its losing streak to shape authentic Conservative values into a genuinely popular narrative, characterised by a stronger society and a more efficient state.

There's only one problem with this: While it's true that Spitzer pushed very hard to help the Democrats in their quest to wrest the Senate from GOP hands and poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into that effort, they didn't actually succeed until 2008 — and we all know how that turned out in the end.

Vander Plaats» possible entrance into the June primary worried some Republicans who believed he would have hurt their chances of wresting this Senate seat from Democratic hands if he had won the GOP nomination.

Nitrogen has been wrested from the sky, turned into plant food and, ultimately, more people — a doubling of the amount of nitrogen cycling through planetary systems.

It is a figment so alluring that world governments have poured billions of dollars and trillions of volts of electricity into machines designed to wrest the Higgs into observable reality.

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.

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.

After Katrina, the state legislature had wrested control of New Orleans» public schools from the local school board and turned most of the schools into charters.

Maybe the great, big, green bookstore chain that finally got Starbucks into the correct proximity to the printed word is perfectly willing to turn around and under - sell its own former employee, Kachka, because it's trying to wrest more co-op concessions from publishers.

If at any time the puppy tries to bite you in protest or wants to turn this into a game of wresting and biting, simply switch to the no - biting exercise including the cradle and chill, then resume the body position handling exercises.

WWE All Stars takes the essence of wresting — over-the-top action and fun — and converts it into one of the best wrestling games that anyone can pick up and play, yet has enough depth to keep you playing.

Manet shocks by wresting clothed and unclothed figures out of Renaissance art and into the present — and it says something that Thomas skips not just the clothed men, but also Manet's sudden shift in scale to a fourth figure, a woman, in the background.

This all - American hero had helped New York wrest from Paris the title of world capital of art, spearheading his nation's first great movement, Abstract Expressionism, into the bargain.

This exhibition digs deep into the bedrock of the first American art style of international stature, formed by a hard - drinking, self - destructive band of mostly brothers who wrested a brave new style from European art, much of it set before them by — who else?

... My cybernetic mosses, wrested from my control, molded themselves into a strange and glittering medium that was not unlike flesh.

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.

Her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos and the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body.

Emerging in the early 1960s world of experimental film, music, poetry, dance and Happenings, Carolee Schneemann's work is characterized by experiments in kinetic technologies, as well as research into archaic visual morphologies, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos and the body of the artist depicted in dynamic relationship with the social body.

A pioneer of feminist performance who has transformed the very definition of art, her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, and the body of the artist in relation to the social body.

Pancy Lin, a partner at Lynberg & Watkins, stepped into harm's way when she arrived to defend Orange County social workers who had lied in a custody case to wrest custody from the plaintiff's mother.