Sentences with phrase «wresting time»

Not exact matches

We need only recall those moments in time of war when, wrested out of ourselves by the force of a collective passion, we have a sense of rising to a higher level of human existence.

Every time Iraqi forces wrested another piece of Fallujah from ISIS, more innocent people poured out of the city.

It was reported that she was threatened with a knife and raped by her aged employer; then she wrested the knife from him and stabbed him many times.

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.

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.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

Dohney went on to accuse Hoffman of breaking his word by agreeing to run on Row D even if he didn't get the Republican nod, thereby improving Democratic Rep. Bill Owens» chances of holding onto the seat he won last fall, wresting the district from GOP control for the first time since Reconstruction.

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

The Times - Union's Jimmy Vielkind wrote The ruling is a major blow to Democrats hoping to wrest control of the Senate... Continue reading →

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.

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.

He said: «Any government that has been in office for more than 10 years, and has had to wrest with the sort of financial and economic crisis that we had, and then the huge furore over MPs» expenses that sparked a political crisis as well, is bound to face a tough time.

The oil can be as much as a quarter of the total mass of a diatom cell, and if a way could be found to efficiently wrest it from diatoms, he adds, a hectare of «diatom cultivation could produce 10 to up to 200 times the oil that is produced by soybean cultivation,» Ramachandra says.

At the same time, the defeated Prince Charming (voiced by Rupert Everett) assembles a team of fairy - tale villains to attack the kingdom and wrest control for himself.

Transfixing images accumulate as we get gently dragged deeper into Drift — and that's before the film's turning point, when the soundscape slowly slips from the diegetic into electronic abstraction and the sea wrests control of the helm and we really start to lose our sense of time and space.

With the company in dire financial straits, Howard's minority partners Whit (Edward Norton), Claire (Kate Winslet), and Simon (Michael Peña) conspire to wrest control by hiring three struggling actors (Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, and Jacob Latimore) to randomly sneak up on him on the subway or while he's eating and pretend to be personifications of death, love, and time while an unscrupulous private eye secretly records their interactions and doctors the footage so that it looks like Howard is talking to himself.

Her life's work is described by New York Times art critic John Canaday (Terence Stamp) as kitsch, allowing «Big Eyes» to wrest with that ol' conflict between what is popular but tacky and what is true art and elitist.

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.

These authors ranged from the self - published to previously published authors who wrested their backlist rights away from legacy publishers for the chance to handle their own marketing, control their own retail prices, and earn 70 % royalties that allowed them to make as much per - unit on Kindle books priced under $ 5 as they had ever received from legacy publishers on print books priced five times as high.

Traditional brick and mortar lenders such as banks and credit unions have tightened their credit requirements since the housing bust and even good credit borrowers can have a tough time wresting an unsecured loan from them.

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».

If at any time the puppy tries to bite you in protest or wants to turn this into a game of wresting and biting, simply switch to the no - biting exercise including the cradle and chill, then resume the body position handling exercises.

It's just a matter of time like sanity is wrested by a nightmare born on Shakhter - One.

Oh yeah, you're bristling right now, indignantly clutching that 6.75 - inch Commander Shepard action figure and preparing to unleash interstellar hell on that comments section, but the simple fact is that no matter how many times I admire the unlikely physics of Jack's belt - bra, my memories of immorally wresting Ferelden from the clutches of the darkspawn are that much fonder.

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.

It seemed like an anomaly at the time, and many experts predicted coal would wrest the crown back long term, but that's not how things have played out.

The air holes help keep your wrest drier during the sweatier times, and the eight color options are vibrant and fun.

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.