Sentences with phrase «wresting control of»

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.»

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.)

But all we get here is the most blithe and moronic kind of «let's put on a show» magical thinking, in which ripping up the union contract and wresting control of the school from the bureaucrats becomes an end in itself, and what happens later is shrouded in the mists of an imaginary libertarian paradise.

Performance in a similar district in Tennessee has been lackluster, according to a recent Vanderbilt University study, and parents have been highly critical of wresting control of their schools from local school boards.

There, with the help of Garza's estranged daughter, Sandra (Gisele Itie), they soon realize that they've been setup by Munroe (Eric Roberts), a rogue CIA Agent with designs on wresting control of the lucrative drug trade after staging a coup d'etat.

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.

Without giving too much away, the book's last act describes a sort of utopian solution to things, an eco-motivated populist uprising that results in nation - states wresting control of the global financial system away from transnational banks and corporations.

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.

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.

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.

Venrock vice president Marissa Campise (who sits on Ad Hoc's board) says that wresting control of phone numbers away from telecom carriers and into the hands of privacy - minded consumers was a long - overdue development.

Recent research from the DEA indicates that the cartels are now producing white - powder heroin from opium cultivated in Mexico, which could allow them to wrest control of the production process away from South Americans, target new customers, and keep more of the profits from heroin sales.

Only this January, following the threat from the opposition parties to form a coalition and wrest control of Parliament from the Conservatives, did the government unveil a $ 35 - billion stimulus package including $ 18 billion in infrastructure spending.

Putting in countless hours and dollars, they wrested control of five of the seven properties Concrete had acquired, saw them through receivership and appointed new management to run them.

The president is also under investigation by Mueller for possible obstruction of justice in the Russia probe — and any further attempt to wrest control of the probe threatens to unleash a political crisis.

The extraordinary criticism raised questions about whether Trump was seeking to drive his top Justice official from office as a way to wrest control of the investigation from Mueller, who was appointed after Sessions» recusal for failing to immediately disclose his meetings with Kislyak.

It is not the job of parents to protect children from the truth, especially when they are caught in the middle of messy and painful circumstances in which one party has so clearly attempted to wrest control of the narrative to salvage his own reputation.

The essays in Smith's persuasive book mostly concern how one collection of influential males (the new academic secularists) successfully wrested control of the institutions of national culture from another collection of influential males (the old Protestant leaders).

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

Is he likely to be our owner one day or is he just dreaming that he can wrest control of the club from Kroenke?

Chase Utley was the most notable, but for the most part, it's an uphill battle for kids who weren't athletic enough to wrest control of the shortstop position at Iona College.

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

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.

Members of the park board promised to hire a professional administrator when they wrested control of the park district from former General Supt. Edmund Kelly in June, 1986.

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.

Much of the dispute has become territorial, with Cuomo and Christie reportedly trying to wrest control of the memorial from Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office.

Saudi Arabia, fearful of Iran's growing influence in the region, wants to wrest control of Qatar away from Tehran.

Paterson was replaced as minority leader by Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith, who made history in 2009 when the Democrats wrested control of the majority from the GOP and he became the chamber's first black majority leader.

says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

«I went to court to try to wrest control of the party from him and to put it in the hands of actual Women's Equality Party members.»

Three years ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrested control of the NYRA board and charged it with returning the firm to private hands by this month.

George Albro of New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

His departure could handicap Democrats» efforts to wrest control of the Senate from Republicans.

The Democratic turnout was particularly strong in affluent suburban areas the party is targeting in its quest to wrest control of the House in the first national referendum on Donald Trump's presidency, Bloomberg reported.

Iannuzzi argued that the campaign against him was an attempt from U.F.T. to wrest control of the statewide group.

The ruling is a major blow to Democrats hoping to wrest control of the Senate from the GOP.

This is a bigger GOP lead than in 1994, the last time Republicans wrested control of Congress from Democrats.

Walcott became chancellor in 2011, but he'd been at Bloomberg's side since the mayor wrested control of the city's public school system from the state in 2002.

Democrat Adam Haber Thursday launched his campaign for the seat held by state Sen. Jack Martins (R - Mineola), setting up what is expected to be one of the most closely watched races in the state this year as Democrats attempt to wrest control of the State Senate from Republicans.

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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.

Bart and John Haggerty also made attempts to wrest control of the Queens GOP from Maltese when they claimed that improper weighted voting was used to elect Maltese to he chairmanship in 2005, but the courts sided with Maltese.

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.

Days before the April 19 special election on Long Island to replace ex-Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's chief fundraiser procured a publicly untraceable $ 50,000 donation to help Senate Democrats wrest control of the key district.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has been the most powerful Bronx official since he wrested control of the county's Democrats in 2008, but he hasn't had much of a chance to shape its delegation in the Senate.

If we want a better future for our children and want to maintain property values, we need to wrest control of our future from the status quo,» said Proulx.

County Executive Mark Poloncarz says he's devoting time, effort and money to all Democratic candidates this year in an effort to wrest control of the County Legislature from Republicans.

DeFrancisco suggested during the radio interview that the accusation could be leveraged politically by progressives calling for the Senate Democrats and IDC to reunite and attempt to wrest control of the state Senate from Republicans.

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.

The race between Tenney and Brindisi is considered a must - win for both parties as Democrats try to wrest control of the House from Republicans.