Sentences with phrase «wrested from»

In questioning the policy of «practical reconciliation», John Borrows proffers the alternative of «practical recolonisation», whereby Indigenous Australians would reclaim the land and political power wrested from them through colonisation.

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.

Instead, the new forms become markers wrested from provisional materials, such as paper scraps and driftwood, that point to the impossibility of replacing what is missing.

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.

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.

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

This kind of visual wit allows Smith to indulge a quite original colour sense that feels linked directly to the real utilitarian world but also one heightened by colours and forms wrested from mass media imagery.

Fighting talk — but surely it must grate that his reputation as the champion of 1960s art has been wrested from him by Andy Warhol.

The organ itself — an instrument the artist has investigated in previous works — registers as an object at the junction between music, technology, architecture, and religion, and these pipes, wrested from their original function, take on other morphological forms, appearing at once anthropomorphic, phallic, or torpedo - like, resting in their protective foam cases.

Should a problem arise that makes it impossible, those possessions will not usually be wrested from your ownership.

Yesha — an acronym made up of the Hebrew initials of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, the lands Israel wrested from Syria, Jordan, and Egypt in the 1967 Six - Day War — is also the name of the movement to reestablish Jewish control of all of biblical Israel by resettlement.

Selfridge, who was a paragon of business savvy for most of his career, saw his empire wrested from him with the dashing of a signature, and he never recovered.

Absolute control must be wrested from the teachers union.

In the Fifties and Sixties, cinephiliac tastes tended to be both aristocratic and proletarian, affirming efficacy and excess, or the transcendence of a gesture wrested from the modest accomplishment of a job well done.

Austere, elegant, immaculately dressed, Woodstock designs gowns for the rich and famous, swirling cascades of silk and taffeta wrested from the stormy depths of his soul.

Shot in 2007, the project was wrested from his control in post-production due to creative differences and West has now disassociated himself with the straight to DVD film whose release date is still shrouded in mystery.

Rather, their tragic «lost» status stems from the fact that they exist only in truncated, bowdlerized form, having been wrested from the hands of their visionary directors by studio functionaries who were too craven and bottom - line - obsessed to cut these directors some auteurist slack.

But of all those jealously eyeing the director's megaphone (metaphorical sadly, they seem to have gone the way of the plus - four as part of the director's standard kit) perhaps those with the most reason to be covetous are the screenwriters, the hardy souls who turn in 120 - page draft after draft, only to have their baby wrested from their grasp and dressed up, maybe brilliantly but often not, in clothes they might not have chosen themselves.

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.

Progression in the party's polling was heightened from the early 1920s when the seat joined many wrested from the Liberal Party, enabling the formation of the first Labour government.

Labour have increased their grip on Cambridge City Council which they wrested from Lib Dem control in 2012.

Heastie said he will give up his post as head of the Bronx County Democratic Party, which he wrested from Assemblyman Jose Rivera in 2008 after several of the organization's primary candidates were defeated.

Klein also did indeed «alienate» swaths of people, predominantly state lawmakers who made an effort to strip the mayor of control of the school system — something he wrested from the Board of Education in 2002 when he took office.

The Powell family saga has many odd twists and symmetries, like the fact that Assemblyman Powell is now, for the second time in his career, trying to take back from Charles B. Rangel the congressional seat Mr. Rangel wrested from his father, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., in 1970.

Looked jealously upon those who wrested it from us.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has distributed $ 1.7 million wrested from Westchester polluters to organizations that will use the money to keep contaminated storm water out of the Bronx River.

Three - times FA Cup winner Walcott, who Everton wrested from Arsenal's clutches last month, had 63 touches of the ball in the encounter with Roy Hodgson's men — a figure put in perspective by Tottenham Hotspur's pre-eminent striker Harry Kane needing his side's recent games against Arsenal and Juventus to accumulate exactly the same number.

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.

Making a broad proprietal gesture over the scene of tree - shaded lanes and discreet estate fences, bourgeois comfort wrested from the unforgiving red earth of Africa, he smiles confidently.

But in the eleventh century the Seljukian Turks, a prominent Tartar tribe and zealous followers of Islam, wrested from the caliphs almost all their Asiatic possessions.

Using hand puppets and bully tactics, the therapist wrested from forty - one children the 321 florid counts of the indictment.

«However, I ended by noting that facts are not the same as values, that while facts can be wrested from a complex universe by close observation and disciplined experiment, values can't be «proven» in the same way as facts.

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.

What we are doing is to wrest this from the grasp of those who know not its proper use.

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.

We are called on to clarify what God in the historical labor for holiness and justice wrests from us as sound teaching.

He might gain power by «doing homage to the devil,» as it is here expressed, or, in realistic terms, exploiting the latent forces of violence to wrest from Rome the liberation of his people.

Obviously, to take this course is doubly insecure, for it involves wresting ourselves from the authority of both past forms of Christianity and present forms of modernity.

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.

If he could wrest from Agnes this love, then in a way she is saved.

He will then be able to wrest from his mind every self - deceit about his being able to make Agnes happy by his trick, he will have courage, humanly speaking, to crush Agnes.

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.

As they constituted such a large number and always voted in a block, Smith used this power to wrest from the Illinois legislature unheard - of powers for his town.

Furthermore, reason could not wrest from nature the mysteries of the Trinity or the two natures of Christ.

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.

There is little doubt that this interest has been brought about by installing his former Chelsea manager in charge at the club, although will they be able to wrest him from Stamford Bridge?

Glen suspects the proposal has something to do with whatever new revenue the state is able to wrest from the city as part of its «New York Pennsylvania Station Area Redevelopment Project,» which would roughly span 30th to 34th streets, 6th to 8th avenues.

KINGSTON >> The state GOP is going all in in the race for the 41st District state Senate seat, which Republican Sue Serino is trying to wrest from incumbent Democrat Terry Gipson.

They couldn't play their hand too hard because they need two things from Cuomo that are only tacitly promisable: Cover during redistricting, which Cuomo wants to wrest from their hands, and a non-aggression pact in next year's election.

The Lib Dems are aggressively attacking Labour's record on social justice as they try to wrest from the government marginal seats represented by Labour MPs for decades.