Sentences with phrase «wrested control over»

By 1786, Great Britain had formally wrested control over the area from Spain and began administering the region as a colony.

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.

New York City should also fight to wrest control over the minimum wage from the state, seek permission to enforce state wage labor laws and enact paid family leave through an expansion of the state's temporary disability insurance program.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

That's despite Obama's claims this spring that the party has a «great chance» of wresting control of the House from the Republicans who have stymied much of his agenda since they took over in the 2010 midterms, and also in spite of a May Q poll that showed Democrats with a slight competitive edge on a generic congressional ballot.

Well on his way to wresting rightful control over the state budget from a shameful Legislature, Gov. Paterson must exercise his newly asserted powers to full and best advantage.

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

Sambra is part of a growing movement to wrest back control over our digital lives by breaking the monopolies of the server farms and the people who own them.

It may have taken nearly 2,000 years for people in China's Yangtze River basin to wrest complete control over rice, researchers reported last year in Scientific Reports.

Set in the fictional location of Hope County, Montana, USA, the plot follows an unknown sherrif's deputy as they attempt to wrest control of the region back from the dangerous cult that has taken over this section of rural America.

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.

But to read local media reports and talk to close observers in the state's largest city, there's really only one plan: a proposal that would wrest direct control of all 34 Kansas City Schools from the district and hand over management to charter operators and nonprofits.

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.

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.