Sentences with phrase «wrest power»

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government officially marked the first year of its administration on 7th January, 2017, after wresting power from the then NDC government led by John Dramani Mahama.

Democrats needed to win a net gain of one seat to effectively wrest power away from Republicans; as Senate President, Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam would have presumably served as the tiebreaker in party line votes of 20 - 20.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will officially mark the first year of its administration on 7th January, 2017, after wresting power from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government led by John Dramani Mahama.

The contest is largely between the All Progressives Congress, an amalgam of four opposition parties that is bent on wresting power from the ruling center - right People's Democratic Party, which has been in power since 1999, when the country returned to civilian rule.

In an epic scene that reminded observers of King John signing the Magna Carta, Robert and the newcomers wrested the power from Layce.

As it turns out, big, ambitious politics is just Democratic politics, and answering the call to renewal starts with helping Democrats wrest power from those small - minded Republican oil - addicted war mongers.

Prosecuted by the armed proletariat who represent the masses of mankind, the communist revolution wrests the power of the state from the ruling elite and deploys that power not to oppress the masses (as was the case in former revolutions) but to abolish the ruling class as such.

He said: «Ahmed Makarfi and Ali Modu Sherrif should sheath their swords and walk together as one family to return and re-organise the PDP as one family to wrest power once again to the benefit of Nigerians

Romania was in upheaval: Under Soviet occupation, a Communist regime wrested power from its longtime monarchy and recalled all diplomats.

The party, which wrested power from the Congress in in Rajasthan in 2013, had 161 MLAs in the House of 200.

Clearly, the MAI is designed to wrest power from states, governments and communities and to empower corporations.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

Smith, who joined the IDC in December in a controversial move that wrested power from Senate Democrats, was -LSB-...]

The implication is that life would be a lot easier for the Liberal Democrat leadership if it could wrest power from the membership and shape a policy platform to its own taste, in the light of the focus group results, the triangulation and the marketing briefing.

Proffering suggestions for the party's victory in the next election, Mr. Rawlings indicated that, the opposition NDC could wrest power from the NPP in the next polls if it identifies its strengths and deals with its weaknesses.

The Labour MP and senior shadow cabinet member calls for a constitutional convention to wrest power from the UK's unaccountable, neoliberal elite.

Control of the party has been challenged by two additional groups seeking to wrest power from a group led by Cuomo, leading a state Supreme Court judge to declare no one could claim leadership over the line until a majority of the candidates who ran last as WEP candidates sign off on the rules.

Valesky said his relationship has improved with DeFrancisco, the other Syracuse - area senator who campaigned fiercely in 2010 to wrest power from the Downstate Democrats and unseat some Upstate Democratic senators in the process.

Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress in the state has asked the PDP members to stop wasting their time on how to wrest power from the ruling party.

He restated the readiness of the PDP to wrest power from the All Progressives Congress in 2019, stating that the officers of the party would play a major role in the exercise.

And Speaker Silver called for an overhaul of control the Senate, saying «we need to make the State Senate Democratic», wresting the power from the GOP.

Apart from the aggrieved APC members, Secondus told one of our correspondents in an interview in Abuja that the main opposition party would do everything legitimate with other opposition political parties, to wrest power from the ruling party.

Cuomo has pledged as part of his broader Albany - reform agenda to wrest the power to redraw legislative - and congressional - district lines from legislative leaders in Albany, who currently exercise control of the process through a redistricting task force whose members they appoint.

In a statement on Monday by the Zonal Publicity Secretary, Rev. Bunmi Jenyo, the party also stated that with the success recorded in the conduct of the non-elective National Convention, it had been reinvigorated to wrest power from the All Progressives Congress in the coming elections.

He said with a «little shakeup» within the party, the NDC with Mahama will stand in a pole position to wrest power from the New Patriotic Party.

He urged the APC members in Ekiti to be united and continue aggressive mobilisation ahead of the 2018 governorship poll to wrest power from Governor Ayodele Fayose - led PDP in the state.

And need we be reminded that the ruling party today was, in the determination to wrest power from the Goodluck Jonathan - led PDP regime, a convergence of different political tendencies including of course the one to which the minister's godfather belongs to?

I was lucky enough to meet Brazier in 2010, not long before he died, at a thrilling Harlem Children's Zone conclave in Manhattan, an event crowded with African - Americans, including members of a presidential administration led by a man who had, finally, wrested power from that white society.

When we make policy in terms of who among us wrests the power to impose a narrow version of the «right» answer, what we get is a new round of arguing and resistance — not the constructive change students need.