Sentences with phrase «wresting with»

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.

«Whether you are struggling with depression, suffering with anxiety or panic attacks, wresting with your marriage, coping with divorce, dealing with an illness or death, or living with a history of sexual abuse or assault, I can help you work on those issues.

Postmodernism is still wresting with Modernism, and contemporary art is still wrestling with both.

And if Kanye is wresting with the «strain, anxiety, and dread» of married life, monogamy and fatherhood, well, that isn't the only way to be married.

«I listened to Tulip Siddiq's interview earlier and I thought what a dignified interview it was, of someone who is having to wrest with the problem that she has and many of us have where there's a national decision made in a national referendum but her constituency very strongly voted against that.»

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.

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.

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Elliott owns 9 percent of the former state phone monopoly and is calling on other investors to help it wrest control away from French media group Vivendi, which effectively runs Telecom Italia as its top shareholder with a 24 percent stake.

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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.

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.

All in all, if the kid has a problem with wresting girls, then don't join the wrestling team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With only six matches to play, United will both need to improve their form and hope that City slip up in order to wrest the final UCL qualifying position away from their fierce rivals.

The Thunder's mercurial point guard has wrested the spotlight away from his MVP teammate through sheer force of will and with absurd amounts of intensity.

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.

The morning before, Roe had telephoned Benoit with the news that Grete Waitz of Norway, who had brought the women's record down more than nine minutes in the 1978,»79 and»80 New York Marathons and from whom Roe had wrested the mark by 13 seconds in the 1981 New York race, had that day tied the record in the London Marathon.

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.

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

Reaching over Thomas's right shoulder with his right hand, he wrested the ball from Thomas, thereby effecting the most remarkable full - gallop fumble recovery in memory.

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.

After a difficult penultimate race day, the British duo faced an uphill battle to try and wrest gold from the grip of the Austrian defending champions Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar, who started the final 10 - boat medal race with a near insurmountable 18 point lead.

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.

When Undersecretary of Agriculture Ellen Haas took on the job of upgrading the nation's school lunch program, nutritionists, educators and consumer advocates had high hopes she could wrest the 48 - year - old system from the grip of bureaucracy and bring it in line with contemporary scientific thinking.

By 4:30 a.m. EST today, even with many individual contests unknown, it was apparent the GOP had wrested away control of the Senate from the Democrats and gained even more control in the House.

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.

There's only one problem with this: While it's true that Spitzer pushed very hard to help the Democrats in their quest to wrest the Senate from GOP hands and poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into that effort, they didn't actually succeed until 2008 — and we all know how that turned out in the end.

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.

It was learnt that the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, is also pitching tent with the faction in what members described as a renewed effort to wrest the structure from the 2015 governorship candidate of the party, Olorogun O'tega Emerhor.

But Democrats say voter dissatisfaction with Washington Republicans and President Donald Trump could help them win more seats in November and wrest control from the GOP.

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

With a little over three months to go until Election Day, Democrat Domenic Recchia, hoping to wrest the congressional seat that covers Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Staten Island away from Republican Michael Grimm, focused his campaign on the Brooklyn end of the two - borough district on Saturday, organizing a group of volunteers to go door to door for him to talk to voters.

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.

Glen suspects the proposal has something to do with whatever new revenue the state is able to wrest from the city as part of its «New York Pennsylvania Station Area Redevelopment Project,» which would roughly span 30th to 34th streets, 6th to 8th avenues.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks to his repeated threats to vote with the Republicans, Espada wrested another huge asset from his Democratic colleagues — head of the Senate housing committee.

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.

Mr. Dinizo doesn't hide his displeasure with Mr. Hughes» efforts to wrest the Conservative line away from the incumbent.

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.

Red Horse Strategies, which played a big role in the 2008 cycle when the Democrats wrested control of the Senate from the GOP, is no longer contracted to work with the conference, although it is still working with individual lawmakers and also is repping independent LG hopeful Bill Samuels.

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.

The Independent Democratic Conference, a group of renegade Democrats who collaborated with the Republicans, formed shortly after Mr. Cuomo was inaugurated in 2011 and helped to wrest control from the mainline Democrats in the Senate for years.

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.

With such a slim majority — the third smallest in the country — the Conservatives require only a fractional swing to wrest Chester out of Labour's hands.

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.