Sentences with phrase «wresting power from»

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will officially mark the first year of its administration on 7th January, 2017, after wresting power from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government led by John Dramani Mahama.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government officially marked the first year of its administration on 7th January, 2017, after wresting power from the then NDC government led by John Dramani Mahama.

The contest is largely between the All Progressives Congress, an amalgam of four opposition parties that is bent on wresting power from the ruling center - right People's Democratic Party, which has been in power since 1999, when the country returned to civilian rule.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

In an epic scene that reminded observers of King John signing the Magna Carta, Robert and the newcomers wrested the power from Layce.

Clearly, the MAI is designed to wrest power from states, governments and communities and to empower corporations.

Smith, who joined the IDC in December in a controversial move that wrested power from Senate Democrats, was -LSB-...]

Proffering suggestions for the party's victory in the next election, Mr. Rawlings indicated that, the opposition NDC could wrest power from the NPP in the next polls if it identifies its strengths and deals with its weaknesses.

The Labour MP and senior shadow cabinet member calls for a constitutional convention to wrest power from the UK's unaccountable, neoliberal elite.

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.

He restated the readiness of the PDP to wrest power from the All Progressives Congress in 2019, stating that the officers of the party would play a major role in the exercise.

Apart from the aggrieved APC members, Secondus told one of our correspondents in an interview in Abuja that the main opposition party would do everything legitimate with other opposition political parties, to wrest power from the ruling party.

In a statement on Monday by the Zonal Publicity Secretary, Rev. Bunmi Jenyo, the party also stated that with the success recorded in the conduct of the non-elective National Convention, it had been reinvigorated to wrest power from the All Progressives Congress in the coming elections.

He said with a «little shakeup» within the party, the NDC with Mahama will stand in a pole position to wrest power from the New Patriotic Party.

He urged the APC members in Ekiti to be united and continue aggressive mobilisation ahead of the 2018 governorship poll to wrest power from Governor Ayodele Fayose - led PDP in the state.

Romania was in upheaval: Under Soviet occupation, a Communist regime wrested power from its longtime monarchy and recalled all diplomats.

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

I was lucky enough to meet Brazier in 2010, not long before he died, at a thrilling Harlem Children's Zone conclave in Manhattan, an event crowded with African - Americans, including members of a presidential administration led by a man who had, finally, wrested power from that white society.

I'm left with the knowledge that we're heading toward disaster, possibly sooner than we want to think, yet I have no good idea what policies to get behind in the unlikely event that some new force wrests power from the vested interests working so hard to promote and exploit the disaster.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prosecuted by the armed proletariat who represent the masses of mankind, the communist revolution wrests the power of the state from the ruling elite and deploys that power not to oppress the masses (as was the case in former revolutions) but to abolish the ruling class as such.

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

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 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.

Cuomo was able to wrest the WFP line from Zephyr Teachout in 2014 by leveraging the support of the party's unions, whose members split power on the state committee with progressive activists.

Cuomo has pledged as part of his broader Albany - reform agenda to wrest the power to redraw legislative - and congressional - district lines from legislative leaders in Albany, who currently exercise control of the process through a redistricting task force whose members they appoint.

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.

Marvel has always wanted to wrest big - screen power over the superhero family from rival Fox.

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.

The money is wrested directly from teacher paychecks as an add - on to their monthly dues (unless teachers specifically object), a power granted unions by school boards as part of collective bargaining deals.

Last week's panel came as Republican lawmakers pushed legislation that could wrest control of some chronically low - performing schools from local school boards, placing staffing and curriculum powers in the hands of for - profit charter operators in so - called «achievement school districts.»

A mayor's attempt to wrest control of a school system from an elected school board might seem like a brave effort to shake up a recalcitrant education system, or it could be dismissed as a politician's power grab.

The case involves allegations that Apple and its late CEO Steve Jobs organized a conspiracy with the Big Six publishers to introduce a commission - style pricing system in order to wrest pricing power from Amazon.

Some seek to control the power of Chaotics, there are those who seek to wrest control from the government, and others still are in it for simple financial gain.

If we were to wrest power away from those abusing it, could we begin to do the right thing, instead of letting the world descend (or ascend?)

Additionally, designers will be able to easily perform analysis of finite structural elements, enabling a whole new level of structural comprehension and daring, and wresting a good deal of power from structural engineers.

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.