Sentences with phrase «wresting back»

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

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

Keen also finds inspiration in the United States, talking to «hacktivist» coders in Oakland and recounting the visionary ideas of John Borthwick, who founded the startup incubator Betaworks, and who offers an action plan to wrest back control of our digital lives.

Democrats hope to wrest back control of the redistricting process from Republicans ahead of 2020 census

He warned that it would not be possible for Mr Cameron to wrest back powers unless he holds a referendum to give him public backing.

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.

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.

When women evolved concealed ovulation, men most likely developed semen full of hormones to wrest back control of paternity.

A few years later powerful bureaucrats wrested back control of many of these assets.

And with good reason (see «Defying dementia: How we can wrest back control «-RRB-.

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).

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

Of course, we must acknowledge the gap between a company's share price and its intrinsic value can sometimes be a long & difficult journey... But in terms of a key event / catalyst, this Sunday Times story (from March) is critical: «Tom Roche, the largest shareholder in NTR, has wrested back control of his 38 % stake in the investment firm after a receiver was appointed to the company that holds the stock... It is understood Roche had been seeking a substantial discount on the borrowings guaranteed by shares in NTR... Roche, who is the chairman of NTR, won a last - minute reprieve by writing a cheque for the full amount of the loans last Monday».

Its capital Skopje presented a city full of traditional pride, ravaged and rebuilt under an oppressive regime only to be restructured by the people when control was wrested back once again.

And when you do wrest back control of the game, your combat scores suffer.

The explicit images and words — the former wrested back from the male gaze, the latter a testament to what no internet - using woman can escape — provoke viewers to confront them on their own terms, with guidance from one of the most dauntless feminist voices making artwork today.

Wrested back from forces which in recent decades rendered it nostalgic, the body as a medium is ripe for art historical revisiting.

Not exact matches

At first glance, observers could be forgiven for assuming the current contest at Cypress follows something of an established path: Dissatisfied with the company's cultural shift in his absence, a spurned founder / CEO attempts to wrest control back from the board responsible for his ouster, presumably in service of reinstating the tone and tenor of the prior regime.

As soon as I wrest my camera back from the teenager, I'm going to take a walking tour of my little town, which boasts a surprising number of lovely churches, excluding my own, which really does have a great personality.

But it is likely that an enlarged SABMiller would seek to wrest the brands back that are owned by Anheuser - Busch InBev at a global level.

Rather than continue to get the very best out of the existing squad, it's all about throwing money at the cause to ensure that the Blues wrest the Premier League title back from the hands of Manchester United.

Now the French international is back and has to try and wrest his starting place back from the upstarts, but Debuchy believes that the competition for places is only good for Arsenal.

Meanwhile, the Oilers visit the Ducks at home hoping to wrest control of their series back from Anaheim.

They're wresting comfort out of the hands of their fans, taking their security blanket and promising to come back with an even nicer quilt later.

The Brewers are 3.5 back of the Cubs with 11 games left in their season, and they have a 3.6 percent probability of wresting the division from Chicago before they run out of season.

Solid as ever in front of the back - line, Matic helped calm things down during the Bournemouth onslaught, slowing the tempo of the game to wrest control of the proceedings.

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.

IT»S BACK... «Texas Democrats look to single - payer in congressional races,» by Renuka Rayasam: «Democrats hoping to wrest congressional seats away from diehard repeal - and - replace Republicans are campaigning on an unlikely issue for Texas — single - payer health care.

Democratic Suffolk County executive candidate Steve Bellone has launched a last - minute radio ad touting his endorsement by THE local paper of record, Newsday, as the Democrats put the finishing touches on their effort to wrest the top local elected office back from GOP hands.

«We have to wrest the nation back and control it as citizens of this country and that is the challenge I want to put to you.

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.

Later in the fall, the Rainbow Rebel coalition, which Diaz backed, wrested control of the Bronx Democratic party from Joel's father, Assemblyman Jose Rivera, changing the power dynamics in the borough.

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.

Despite the two wins for the northeast Queens Democrats and the party's other senators in the borough, it appeared the Republicans may have wrested control of the state Senate chamber back from Democrats.

He backed democratic candidates in an unsuccessful attempt to wrest control away from the GOP.

He backed Democratic candidates in an unsuccessful attempt to wrest control away from the GOP.

There is a long way to go, though, before the devolution parties can be confident they have begun to wrest the agenda back from the SNP.

Ironically, he is now working feverishly to collect enough petition signatures to get himself back onto the committee along with a bevy of his loyalists who aim to wrest control from its current leadership under Reda.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 19, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (PG - 13 for intense violence, frightening images and brief sensuality) First half of the final installment of J.K. Rowling's series has Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) joining forces to wrest control of Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic back from evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and his minions.

Not even the best efforts of the always - excellent Guy Pearce can save what is in essence a pathetic cutting - room attempt to wrest the movie back from the abyss of a director suffering a nervous breakdown with eighteen days to go in the shooting schedule and a governing philosophy that believes Orlando Jones would make a good HAL - 9000.

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.

The first player can also wrest control of Cappy back from the second player whenever he wants.

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.

But backed by teachers» unions and some dissatisfied parents, and promoted through a series of house parties, four candidates are now trying to wrest control of the board away from reformers.

Both the Republican Senate and House versions attempt to wrest control of education from the Federal government back to the states, where they feel it rightly belongs.

In addition, it's getting harder and harder for traditionally published authors to wrest their rights back from publishers, which is undoubtedly cutting down on the number of backlist titles being newly self - published.

On Mike Shatzkin's blog, he speculated that the publishers» decision to delay the e-book versions of some major upcoming titles isn't «a battle to rescue hardcover books from price perception issues caused by inexpensive ebooks» so much as it is about «wresting control of their ebook destinies back from Amazon.»

And if he'd known about the child, I think he either would have been jealous and tried to wrest attention from the child back toward himself, or indifferent.

My sister says that she loves the time change in the fall, when she feels she's wrested an hour back from the hands of fate.

Mario must venture to six different lands to wrest the coins away from the bosses so that he might take back his castle from Wario.