Sentences with phrase «wrest more»

Amazon» HTML5 Kindle move was widely expected as an increasing number of companies are developing Web - based HTML5 apps to wrest more control from Apple, which must approve every app that ends up in the Apple App Store.

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.

Since 1984, school districts have sued the state of Texas repeatedly to wrest more money for public education, resulting in five major court decisions.

But it's unclear if the uproar will actually change how people behave online or help them wrest more control over their data.

The AG declined to criticize Cuomo for failing to wrest a more significant reform deal from the Legislature, saying the governor had a «lot of things on his plate» and an unusually difficult legislative session that saw the ouster of not one, but two conference leaders as a result of corruption scandals.

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.

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.

Every time Iraqi forces wrested another piece of Fallujah from ISIS, more innocent people poured out of the city.

The morning before, Roe had telephoned Benoit with the news that Grete Waitz of Norway, who had brought the women's record down more than nine minutes in the 1978,»79 and»80 New York Marathons and from whom Roe had wrested the mark by 13 seconds in the 1981 New York race, had that day tied the record in the London Marathon.

With Marseille wresting back control of the match, they then collapsed once more.

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.

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.

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.

Democrats said they will now focus on winning more seats in November to build a clear majority and wrest Senate control from the GOP.

The GOP, which voted in a bloc against the marriage bill in spite of advocates» claims that there was support from four or more minority conference members for the legislation, is unlikely to engaged it fragile hold on the majority — if it manages to wrest it back from the Democrats — by taking up this controversial bill.

He said: «Any government that has been in office for more than 10 years, and has had to wrest with the sort of financial and economic crisis that we had, and then the huge furore over MPs» expenses that sparked a political crisis as well, is bound to face a tough time.

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.

Don had come to wrest Gal out of retirement, to recruit him for one more heist, and he was not one to take no for an answer.

When Robbie - as - Harding narrates and sometimes addresses the camera, intercut with director Craig Gillespie's faux - documentary interviews, I, Tonya makes an intriguing spectacle of Harding attempting to wrest her narrative back from other people, a battle that turns out to be more unwinnable than competing against Nancy Kerrigan.

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.)

The speculation is that Google wants to wrest back control of the Android tablet scene and give consumers more bang for their buck.

, Kirby, Pro Wresting, or StarTropics seem more like unfortunate omissions, especially when compared to games like Golf.

In this current age of techno - dependency, «Pictures from the Moon» offers a view of the persistent attempts by artists to wrest something more from technology than that for which it was invented.

On the other, it challenges a wider public to consider these props as something more, attempting impossibly to wrest them from their Hollywood context for a deeper consideration, which they may not be deserving of.

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.

What follows here, then, is a sprint through some of the artistic and curatorial highlights and low points, in search of commonalities, contradictions, and the ultimate conclusions to be drawn from three very different iterations of more or less the same idea: wresting art from the thrall of the market and restoring it to a conscientious existence.

More than anything, the fishermen are wary of new rules and regulations that will make wresting a living from the sea even more difficult than it is alreMore than anything, the fishermen are wary of new rules and regulations that will make wresting a living from the sea even more difficult than it is alremore difficult than it is already.

There is nothing you can do about your age or the amount of driving experience you might have, but being aware that it can work in your favor (or against you) can help you to wrest a little more control over your premiums.

Eventually, a small group of programmers calling themselves «Bitcoin Core» wrested control of the legacy development branch of Bitcoin and began to insist, counter-intuitively, that Bitcoin was incapable of scaling to more than 250,000 transactions per day, or about 4.5 cents worth of bandwidth at 2008 prices.

They offered «easy» loan modifications and «foreclosure counseling» that were often nothing more than attempts to wrest money from distressed consumers.