Sentences with word «wresting»

Although that's not to say they don't still have their work cut out for them as they prepare for a re-match in hopes of wresting control of the chamber back from the GOP in 2012.

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.

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.

And Maziarz says Schneiderman, a one - time Democratic state senator from Manhattan, has concentrated on Republicans to help wrest away control of the state's last GOP bastion.

Our group, Direct Democracy, was established last year with the aim of wresting back powers from the centre.

So after wresting with my own mind over the options and what to do right there in the aisle at Costco, I decided DONE was going to be good enough this time.

Investors in five of Concrete's Calgary - area office buildings and strip malls worth some $ 110 million, by contrast, were successful in wresting control from Concrete Equities, as detailed in a Canadian Business feature story from 2012.

Last — and certainly not least — comes (in every sense of the word) producer and Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, who wrested control of the film from Brass and then shot and edited in some balls - out (literally) hardcore pornography.

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.

Todd D. Kaminsky, a Democratic Assemblyman and former federal corruption prosecutor who billed his campaign as a mission to clean up Albany from the inside, had a slight edge in the race for Mr. Skelos's former State Senate seat on the South Shore of Long Island; his win could help Democrats wrest control of the Senate from Republicans.

That echoes City Hall's strategy of a year ago, which was adopted after de Blasio became a polarizing figure amid his discord with Cuomo and his failed attempt to help wrest control of the Senate away from Republicans.

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.

Still, despite being so close to victory, the wrongly - convicted Kable is fixated on wrested back control of his own mind in order to vindicate his name, settle a score with Castle and ultimately reunite with his wife Angie (Amber Valletta) and their young daughter Delia (Brighid Fleming).

No, we dare not wrest into our hands any powers over our fellow men.

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

Indeed, the recent establishment of the Green Climate Fund over the past two years, intended to govern an anticipated $ 100bn a year in climate finance flows by 2020, can be read as the fulfilment of this long - standing aspiration for wresting finance oversight away from existing institutions — especially the World Bank.

Defiant and determined to transform the Democratic Party, Sen. Bernie Sanders is opening a two - month phase of his presidential campaign aimed at inflicting a heavy blow on Hillary Clinton in California and amassing enough leverage to advance his agenda at the convention in July — or even wrest the nomination from her.

This guy had legs like tree - stumps, and was undefeated in 5,000 wresting matches.

The Democrats had just wrested control of the chamber from the GOP's hands, but the margin was slim enough that defection of a few key Democrats could have kept Skelos in power.

Qoheleth is not merely giving his readers the pessimistic or cynical results of his attempt to wrest meaning from life.

Shock, lack, and the abyssal wail remain in force then wrest control, but such discord is not well captured by mere fracture.

She will appear on the Republican and Conservative lines — after wresting away the Conservative line from Mr. McMahon in a hard - fought primary she forced through an opportunity - to - ballot campaign.

The case vignette of Mr. and Mrs. C. in Part (I) demonstrated how a determined, unscrupulous father succeeded in wresting custody from a fit, custodial mother, who was the target parent.

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Even if more loans sour, these newcomers can grow earnings by wresting market share from older high - street peers.

And when the singers come to the climax of the Oratorio, the grand «Hallelujah Chorus,» the hesitant style conveys the truth that human beings can only dimly see and longingly hope that God is even now wresting victory from suffering, chaos and captivity.

Witness James Weir surging into the box like a young Scholes to take the Reds to victory from a goal down at Middlesbrough recently — sheer determination wresting victory from a situation that had strongly suggested defeat.

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).

McCain would be on tap to serve as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee if the GOP wrests majority control from the Democrats in next month's midterm elections.

It was an evening that saw the GOP expand its control of the House of Representatives while also wresting control of the U.S. Senate.

Rogers / Captain America counters that accepting the UN's proposal is a moral and political lose - lose, shifting responsibility for lost lives from the Avengers to their supervisors while wresting control of the superheroes» powers from their own hands.

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.

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

And so Frank puts on his big boy pants and competes in TK's zombie wresting game show where West needs to pulverize as many zombies as he can in order to earn loads of cash.

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.

THE BLU - RAY DISC Warner brings The Song Remains the Same to Blu - ray in a 1.85:1, 1080p presentation that wrests what pizzazz it can from decidedly temperamental elements.

It seems that we now have individuals, like Jonathan Todd, supposed high level economic expert and seeped in the toxic poisons of Demos and Progress, and full of that ability to wrest money from the taxpayer to fund various «arty» projects — versus — the little people at the bottom.

Maybe reading flash fiction (or any literature for that matter) is wresting time from the hands of fate.

They insist on her ambiguous forms wrested out of male control, materials unfamiliar to sculpture like resin and polyurethane, imagery like lamps and lips at a time of Pop Art, and softer wrinkles in the years before her death.

Our critic Dwight Garner hails the painter David Salle's new book, a collection of essays that wrest art away from critics and go in search of aesthetic bliss.

Rogers recently made a similar, though far smaller, deal for the rights to World Wresting Entertainment events.

The list of candidates who are in play include actress Kim Kardashian (275/1), World Wresting Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon (200/1), and former FBI Director James Comey (100/1).

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.)

Leaving aside the whole redistricting reform question for a moment (and yes, I realize it's a great big wrench in the works), let's consider how much of a factor the Conservative Party was in the 2010 elections, when the GOP successfully wrested the majority back from the Democrats.

The Reform Party survived a bout of infighting late last year as a group of newcomers wrested control from the party's leaders in a fight that ended up in Albany courts.

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.

A woman fit for hanging... condemned to death on April 30, 1823, but whose sentence the English, having recently wrested authority from the Dutch settlers, saw fit to commute to a lengthy term on the notorious Robben Island.

Like most of the upstart league's gestures, the gift combined a gleam of original thinking with a desperate attempt to wrest attention from the NBA.