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China has wrested markets from Brazilian manufacturers across Latin America.
Bernie Sanders, who'd recently wrested the status of frontrunner from Biden.
Never mind that he wrested the spotlight from the Parkland, Fla.
Tasks that once belonged to the W.H.O. have been wrested away.
The DPP wrested power from the KMT in a January presidential election.
Palmer, however, wrested back management control of the plant earlier this week.
China wrested control of the shoal, used by Filipino fishermen, in 2012.
Afghan government troops, backed by the United States, eventually wrested back control.
But wrested from its context, Mr. Sieferle's argument can sound thoroughly offensive.
It has already wrested the allegiance of a group started by Baghdadi.
Publishers got what they wanted: they wrested control over their ebooks from Amazon.
When Woodard wrested it away, Long, gun drawn, ordered him to drop it.
During the 1967 war, Israel wrested control of East Jerusalem and annexed it.
Ms. Stein has dug into the dirty trick by which Jack wrested Warner Bros.
We had 18 minutes like that — two snooze cycles — before I wrested myself away.
By 1984, Mr. Gutfreund had wrested control back from his erstwhile allies at Phibro.
He had wrested board control away from Pavel with an incredibly difficult-to-remove Malygos.
Can the GOP be wrested free from the grip of Fox News and its ilk?
Tesla Motors only took off after Elon Musk wrested control away from founder Martin Eberhard.
Finally, in 1972, he wrested the world title away from the powerful Russian Boris Spassky.
Hamas wrested control of Gaza from the Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas' forces in 2007.
Now basics like water, food and fuel - once wrested from the land - must be paid for.
Armed groups loyal to the regime wrested control of university campuses and towns back from dissidents.
It was a rare instance of a big Indian company being wrested from a founding shareholder.
Elliott wrested control of TIM's board last May after blaming Vivendi for serving its own interests.
Trump built his business empire on tax breaks and concessions the he wrested from local governments.
In Iowa, a state Mr. Trump won, Abby Finkenauer and Cindy Axne wrested seats from Republicans.
Since then however directors backed by activist U.S. fund Elliott have wrested control of the board.
The coalition recently wrested the parts of the city east of the Tigris River from ISIS control.
A struggle began and Guyger fired her Taser at Perez, who then wrested it away from her.
After Britain wrested control of Quebec from France in 1763 its new French-speaking subjects resisted assimilation.
But in 2013 she was ousted by the very same person she initially wrested power from -- Rudd.
From there Pacquiao wrested back control, highlighted by a right uppercut that dropped Bradley in the ninth.
Republicans also wrested control of the Iowa Senate and the Minnesota Senate from Democrats, according to NCSL.
The rift occurred when Hamas militants wrested control of the Gaza strip in fierce clashes with Fatah.
The Pakistani military wrested the region from the Taliban in 2009 and has maintained a heavy presence.
The temptation is to suggest that Neymar has wrested the mantle of the world's best from Messi.
But after a grueling campaign, the last speck of land was finally wrested from the Islamic State.
The government wrested PrivatBank from Kolomoisky in 2016 and then shored up the lender with billions of dollars.
It was the highest-grossing film of all time until 2010, when Cameron's Avatar wrested away the title.
The plan necessitated deception — and led to difficult conversations with parents whose children had been wrested from them.
What is now the party's largest bloc of voters — whites without college degrees — wrested power from the establishment.
Power was wrested from other mobsters, especially from Italian-American gangs, as any enterprises might outdo each other.
Ginsburg's win in that case wrested from the Supreme Court its first ruling against sex discrimination as unconstitutional.
Mahathir's opposition wrested control of key states Johor and Kedah, and reduced BN's grip in strongholds like Sarawak.
Downtown Johannesburg remains pockmarked with dangerous, dilapidated "hijacked" buildings, where armed gangs have wrested control from legitimate owners.
Should Democrats take back the House next year, his political destiny would be wrested out of Republican hands.
At home, I think the biggest impact has been that I've wrested control of the thermostat from Priscilla.
What that has meant, in practice, is that parents have been detained and families have been wrested apart.
Rouhani, in coalition with reformists and independent conservatives, wrested back control of parliament from hardliners in February's elections.
My patients represent just one sample of the multitudes of women whose autonomy has been wrested from them.
So refrigerators wrested from their usual environment inside private homes and filled with free food, are proliferating worldwide.
The president had wrested the "No Collusion" headline he dearly craved, and Thursday he would claim his laurels.
Passengers are menaced by an American Airlines flight attendant who has wrested a stroller from a sobbing mother.
As the S.D.F. wrested back control of towns and cities across northeastern Syria from ISIS, Kurdish power grew.
The FISA courts became rubber-stamp formalities and, after the September 11 attacks, intelligence agencies wrested back power.
With Mateen, therefore, IS can claim to have wrested him from sin and pulled him into the light.
But last year quite a lot of that territory, including some historically Christian towns, was wrested from IS control.
In May, Kurdish fighters in the SDF wrested the city of Tabqa and a strategic dam there from ISIS.
It's only lent to anyone, for a little while, from somebody else, and that power can be wrested away.
The administration has also wrested control over natural resources away from local leaders, giving it to provincial governors instead.
The shooting ended when customer James Shaw Jr. wrested the weapon away from the gunman, who fled on foot.
She wrested Kuniyoshi away from Charles Daniels and urged Alfred Stieglitz, the godfather of early American modernism, to share.
This month, Iraqi forces wrested power over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, controlled by Iraqi Kurds since 2014.
In others, as when Congress wrested discretion over Russian sanctions away from him, he has been layered over reluctantly.
At that point, the momentum should have been on the Americans' side, but somehow the Europeans wrested it away.
More could have died if a customer, James Shaw Jr., had not wrested away the gunman's AR-214 rifle.
More could have died if a customer, James Shaw Jr., had not wrested away the gunman's AR-15 rifle.
It was another governor who wrested control of the subways from the city: Nelson A. Rockefeller, in the 1960s.
Israel wrested the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including the Old City, in the Arab-Israeli war of 1967.
This week, adherents of two major religions celebrate pivotal holidays, both of which celebrate life wrested away from death's grasp.
The government wrested PrivatBank from Kolomoisky's control in 2016, saying billions of dollars were funneled out while he owned it.
It is precisely because Europeans have more to gain than Americans from BRI that they successfully wrested concessions from China.
On the second day they ploughed past more Kurdish trenches and wrested back some 20183,000 sq km (14,000 sq miles).
In the 1990s the Deutsche Terminbörse, Eurex's ancestor, wrested trade in ten-year German government-bond futures from London's grasp.
Gubitosi was appointed to the TIM board after a boardroom coup in May in which Elliott wrested control from Vivendi.
America long ago promised Turkey that Kurdish forces, who wrested the ethnically mixed town from IS in 2016, would withdraw.
The unusually cruel military commander—famously known as Vlad the Impaler—wrested the stronghold from the Ottoman Turks in 21461.
He wrested control of the sale of drugs, cellphones and sex, and taxed restaurants, stores and other prisoner-run businesses.
He wrested the lucrative right of exporting coal to China from the military and gave it to his administrative department.
At the time, several rebel groups, including a number of Islamist brigades, had already wrested the city from government control.
Abby Finkenauer, who wrested control of her seat from a Republican incumbent in 2018 with the help of Biden's endorsement.
But the military is largely unable to control territory beyond the cities and towns it has wrested back from Boko Haram.
Either way, Trump has wrested control of our eyeballs,  distracting us from talking about much more than whatever's on his mind.
That's when Curry took over, scoring eight points in a 94-second span as the Warriors wrested control of the game.
That talking heads have wrested control of the GOP from the traditional party powerbrokers benefits neither the party, nor the nation.
Watkins wrested control of 2channel from Nisihmura in 2014 in a disagreement that drew considerable attention and speculation among imageboard users.
A decade earlier NATO air strikes had wrested control of Kosovo away from Serbia to end a Serb counter-insurgency campaign.
In late April, Yemeni and Emirati soldiers wrested back Mukalla from AQAP, which put up little resistance before withdrawing its forces.
There are powerful magical spells and martial abilities beyond the knowledge of the human that must be wrested from the afterlife.
That's when Curry took over, scoring eight points in a 13-second span as the Warriors wrested control of the game.
At some point in the hazy past, an enterprising group of rule-followers wrested control of the shantytown from the administration.
Trixie, as the Fake Bitch, wrested a couple moments from Milk, who, as the Psycho Stalker, babbled and shrieked over her.
It wrested from China an agreement to increase its total purchases from $186 billion in 2017 to $309 billion in 2021.
The authorities said there would have been greater bloodshed had an unarmed man not wrested the rifle away from the gunman.
Three years later, she had wrested control of the party from Mr. Ramachandran's widow, and she maintained it until her death.
Counterextremism should be wrested back from ideologues who care more about their pet agendas than effectively stopping violence and preventing social upheaval.
They are concerned with their watn -- their nation -- which they say has been wrested away from the people by militias and gangs.
In military circles, the Mosul offensive draws comparisons to two other cities where Iraqi forces wrested control from ISIS: Ramadi and Falluja.
ISIS wrested full control of Raqqa in 2014 and declared it the capital of its envisaged caliphate, or so-called Islamic State.
Hamas, which advocates Israel's destruction, wrested control of the Gaza Strip from Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007.
In May, Kurdish militants wrested the strategic city of Tabqa from ISIS, further tightening the noose around Raqqa, ISIS's self-declared capital.
Nunes seems to be an immediate rematch between Tate and Holly Holm, the woman Tate wrested the title from on March 5.
The moderator, the St. Petersburg-based journalist Svetlana Gavrilina, interrupted speakers and wrested the microphone away from audience members who were commenting.
Even so, the president was in his element and visibly relieved to have wrested the spotlight from Democrats for one glorious evening.
Democrats successfully wrested control of two of Iowa's House districts, giving the party a 3 to 20123 majority of the congressional delegation.
Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully — and often counterproductively — savage his rivals.
We lust for the latest gadget, which hides away minerals wrested from beneath the Congo, among other places, deep in its innards.
He then wrested so much control over the brand that the brothers agreed to be bought out in 1961 for $2.7 million.
"Cynthia's CD Collection" makes one picture how a girl must have felt when her curated collection of music was wrested from her.
A Western small-footed bat being wrested from its torpor and collected for study in an abandoned mining cave near Ely, Nev.
The ruling is a major setback for the government, which wrested PrivatBank from Kolomoisky, a co-founder of the bank, in December 2016.
On Sunday, The New York Times reported that his advisors have "finally wrested away" the account from Trump in the campaign's final days.
And this year, EA has wrested UEFA licensing away from Konami, meaning the Champions League will feature in FIFA for the first time.
The militant organization, which has fought three wars with Israel in the past nine years, wrested control of Gaza from Abbas in 2007 .
Here's what it also shows: The Female Passenger: This is the woman holding the baby who supposedly had the stroller wrested from her.
In the war years, Louverture had not only wrested control from the colonial administrators but had also become the whole island's richest man.
Hezbollah also believes a cabinet post should be allocated to one of its Sunni allies who wrested seats away from Hariri's Future Movement.
In addition, the satellite radio company, SiriusXM, pays below-market royalties, thanks to a giveaway it first wrested from Congress 20 years ago.
Several Americans and Europeans traveled to Syria to join the Kurdish-led forces that wrested control of northeastern Syria from the Islamic State.
Still, if a competitor successfully wrested Time Warner away, the telecommunications company would receive a handsome $1.725 billion breakup fee for its trouble.
By the afternoon, after a standoff in Ankara, the capital, the government had wrested back an army headquarters building held by coup plotters.
This year, there are worries of riots or violence if Trump supporters believe the nomination is being unfairly wrested from their favored candidate.
An alliance of opposition parties and rebel lawmakers from the ruling Conservative party wrested control of the lower house of parliament on Wednesday.
Mr. Kihuen appears expendable, even though he had just wrested a seat from a Republican in the politically critical swing state of Nevada.
But on Monday, Afghan soldiers wrested control of the Deh Yak district in southeastern Ghazni Province from Taliban fighters after a concerted offensive.
But none of these experiences, which deepened his culinary acumen, put him in the limelight, or wrested him from his passion for Japan.
On Wednesday, Islamic State militants wrested control of Tora Bora, the mountain redoubt that was once Osama bin Laden's fortress, from the Taliban.
There is precious little evidence to suggest that fraudsters have wrested the presidency from Donald Trump, or any candidate, at any level, ever.
The ruling is a big setback for the government, which wrested PrivatBank from Kolomoisky, a co-founder of the bank, in December 2016.
Strip a horse of its saddle, bridle, stirrups, and other human-wrested accoutrements, and the animal stands tall and free in its natural splendor.
Mr. Shaw burst out from behind a swinging door where he had been hiding, wrested the weapon away and threw it over a countertop.
Vancouver nearly wrested the lead back on its own power play minutes later, after Jets defenseman Julian Melchiori went to the box for interference.
In a game that saw seven lead changes and nine ties, Fordham wrested control with a 10-0 run early in the second half.
There is a noticeable media-push behind Taylor, and one has to question how much is wrested in truth and how much in hype.
" Part of the problem, he argued, is the fact that modern day technology has allowed better map-drawing that has "wrested power from voters.
All that changed in 1987 when Mr. Redstone wrested control of Viacom in a hostile takeover, claiming his position as a global media titan.
In St. Cloud, Florida, in December 2495, Sherry Campbell was wrested from her sleep by what she thought was a stranger approaching her bed.
They sat in front of a large number of new Democratic lawmakers, part of the wave that wrested control away from the President's Republicans.
Only in recent days, as leaders of state and local governments have wrested control from Washington, have those hundred-year-old lessons been heeded.
The Kenyans, along with allied Somali militia members, wrested control of the territory from Shabaab jihadists after a number of kidnappings on Kenyan soil.
The Kenyans, along with allied Somali militia, wrested control of the territory from al Shabaab jihadists after a spate of kidnappings on Kenyan soil.
Sizzle reels were heavy with scenes from "The Office," the enduring sitcom that NBCUniversal wrested from Netflix in a $228.2 million deal last year.
"I'm getting closer and closer every day," said Murray, who wrested the reins from Fleury last season and backstopped Pittsburgh to the title. 1.
It was the deadliest attack against Iraq's Shiite-led Popular Mobilization Units since the country's forces wrested Hawija from the terror group in October.
Besides, their more moderate peers are the ones who wrested seats from Republicans in districts that, like America, aren't deep red or emphatically blue.
Like many other residents, he ventured back as Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army gradually wrested back control from Islamist militants and other rebel groups.
"Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully – and often counterproductively – savage his rivals," the story states.
Djokovic has 13 Grand Slam titles; Del Potro has just one, a U.S. Open championship he wrested from then-defending champion Roger Federer in 2009.
In recent months she has, mostly on her own, wrested into existence an exhibition space that will concentrate on works on paper, naming it Romeo.
The move would reverse decades of U.S. foreign policy regarding the piece of land, which Israel wrested from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.
In the summer of 1987, Sumner M. Redstone wrested control of Viacom in a hostile corporate takeover that left scorched relationships with the company's management.
He started at Viacom in 1980 and has been part of Mr. Redstone's inner circle since the mogul wrested control of the company in 1987.
Saudi Arabia has provided billions of dollars in economic aid to Egypt since Sisi wrested power in 2013 on the strength of the nation's military.
"Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully — and often counterproductively — savage his rivals," the Times reports.
A prosperous merchant point in the 16th century, its coffers bolstered by the slave trade, Cape Verde was finally wrested from Portuguese control in 1975.
This revolution continued until the Spanish-American War when the Americans wrested the island nation away, much to the chagrin (and surprise) of the Philippines.
The history of kare-kare is often traced to a 20-month interregnum in the 18th century when the British wrested Manila from the Spanish.
That led to a messy public spat and court hearing as the Trump administration wrested control over the financial watchdog from an Obama-era holdover.
But you also have to feel for Loris Karius, a 24-year-old German who wrested the starting job away from Simon Mignolet this season.
While the territory of the Islamic State's self-declared "caliphate" has been wrested from the group, the security situation in much of Syria remains tenuous.
With every breath that was wrested from him I could feel the struggle of his great spirit, wanting to free itself from its earthly shell.
James Shaw Jr. exuded modesty in the hours and days after he wrested an assault rifle from a gunman at a Nashville Waffle House restaurant.
Our investigation details how mega-landlords have pushed out tenants and wrested a civic commodity, affordable housing, out of regulation and into the free market.
The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pot containing the nectar of immortality from demons.
Mr. Russell tried to defend himself with a fireplace poker, but the man wrested it from his hand and beat him until he stopped moving.
The victory also wrested back the world number one ranking from Angelique Kerber who swiped it away during her winning run to the U.S. Open championship.
Preibus wrested order out of chaos when it came to the primary and caucus schedule, shrunk the number of debates and injected conservative voices into them.
For this brief period in the mid-2000s, the narratives of who the stars were and what they represented was wrested from the powers that be.
The Democratic Party wrested back control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, thus effectively ending Republican hopes of overturning former President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms.
Genish was appointed last year to run the underperforming former monopoly by Vivendi, but since then directors backed by Elliott have wrested control of the board.
The buzz around the augmented reality mobile game is so strong that it wrested control of the podcast away from our originally planned discussion topic, GoPro.
Based on this research, many journalists concluded that party bigwigs had so fully wrested control away from the public that true "outsider" candidates had no shot.
The Mets wrested the East division from Washington's grip last August and then earned the World Series trip that had been widely expected for the Nationals.
Not if you're one of the dwindling number of disaffected conservatives who believes that the Republican Party can be wrested back from the president's iron grip.
This campaign cycle, many of the Vermont independent's supporters are still deeply distrustful of a Democratic establishment that they believe wrested the nomination away from Sanders.
But that was in a climate in which print publications had a disproportionate amount of leverage, and the internet and TMZ hadn't wrested away narrative control.
"That's so cute," said Ms. Olsen, before learning that many old-school truffle hunters are missing fingers from having wrested the tubers away from the pigs.
He entered Monday night's game already owning the record for most career passing yards, which he wrested from Manning last season, also on a Monday night.
The economic collapse began in the ways Mr. Chávez wrested power, paid for loyalty with oil and purged his enemies, our Interpreter columnists wrote in 2017.
By the middle of the 19th century, through treaties and threats of force, the British had wrested control of the coastal city Lagos from its king.
American-led forces had already wrested more than 13,000 square miles of territory from the group by the time Mr. Trump was elected in November 2016.
A year later Yemeni recruits trained and backed by the United Arab Emirates and its special forces wrested control of the south and kicked out the jihadists.
The government wrested PrivatBank from Kolomoisky as part of a banking system clean-up backed by the IMF, which supports Ukraine with a $3.9 billion loan programme.
Following a civil war in 2007 in which Hamas wrested power from the Palestinian Authority, Israel and Egypt have enforced a blockade of varying degrees of severity.
They argue that if the junta, thought to answer to the widely reviled Gulenist sect, had wrested power from Mr Erdogan, it could have meant civil war.
Paris (CNN)Gendarmerie late Monday wrested control of a prison wing where inmates freed by one of their number set a fire and rioted, French officials said.
Or China might start building on the Scarborough Shoal, which it wrested from the Philippines in 2012 after a stand-off between the two countries' patrol boats.
On Tuesday, Iraqi forces took another Kurdish-held town -- Sinjar, near the Iraq-Syria border -- that the Kurds wrested from ISIS control in 2015, said Brig. Gen.
Other people are far from the city's center — and from help — in remote areas of Borno State that have only recently been wrested from Boko Haram control.
Nyquist zipped through the opening quarter in 22.78 seconds before American Freedom wrested a short lead from him in a half that went in a snappy 46.62.
As for Ms. Jusinski, the technology teacher in New Jersey, she has wrested back control of her retirement account, investing in the union's do-it-yourself option.
Technically, Stevenson is the linear champion having wrested the crown from former champion Chad Dawson three years ago, but he also hasn't really fought anyone meaningful since.
She has broken with Trump repeatedly, on Russia and other matters, but never so flamboyantly that she wrested the narrative from him or provoked his public wrath.
If U.S.A. Gymnastics is decertified, it would be only the fourth time in recent years that the U.S.O.C. has officially wrested control from a national governing body.
With Columbus clinging to a 4-3 lead in the third period, Tampa Bay had wrested the momentum from the Blue Jackets but still couldn't solve Bobrovsky.
Pena wrested herself from his grasp by pulling off her top and running shirtless to State Trooper Francisco Hernandez, who was fueling up at the gas station.
The government wrested PrivatBank from Kolomoisky as part of a banking system clean-up backed by the IMF, which supports Ukraine with a multi-billion dollar loan programme.
The government wrested PrivatBank from Kolomoisky as part of a banking system clean-up backed by the IMF, which supports Ukraine with a multi-billion dollar loan program.
Vivendi, which holds a stake of around 24 percent, has been battling with Elliott over Telecom Italia, where Elliott wrested control over the board from Vivendi in May.
This was an era when it looked increasingly obvious that Ottoman Macedonia, the lower swathe of the sultan's remaining European lands, would soon be wrested from Turkish control.
Washington's main allies on the ground have been a Kurdish force known as the YPG, which wrested control of much of the Turkish-Syrian border from Islamic State.
Some spanned multiple regimes: The Lontsky Street prison in western Ukraine was used by Polish police and Nazi Germany's Gestapo before the Soviets wrested back control in 1944.
In addition, as founders have increasingly wrested power away from VCs, they increasingly demand that the people on the other side of the table share their operational experience.
In the last state election here, back in 2017, Democrats wrested a whopping 15 seats from the GOP, but they fell just shy of taking over Richmond's Capitol.
He wrested the puck from defenseman Drew Doughty in the right circle, moved in, avoided a poke-check attempt by Quick and roofed the puck over the goalie.
The center was used by successive rulers, including military dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which wrested power from him in 1991.
Gabriel has back-to-back outings of at least 68 scrimmage yards and a touchdown and seems to have wrested the Falcons' third receiver gig from Justin Hardy.
In Syria, the group exploited the power vacuum created when rebels wrested large parts of the country's north and east from the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
But even as territory has been wrested from the Islamic State, the group has continued to spread its ideology online and encouraged supporters to carry out attacks worldwide.
And a customer in a Nashville Waffle House last year wrested an assault rifle from a shooter who had killed four people and threw it over a counter.
The Tennessean reported that the customer who wrested the gun away, James Shaw Jr., overheard Mr. Sanderlin say he was going to take a break before heading outside.
Starved, injured and traumatized, civilians in Mosul made their way to humanitarian camps as government forces wrested the last pockets of the Iraqi city from Islamic State militants.
The citadel was built by Salah al-Din, also known as Saladin, a Muslim warrior who wrested control of Jerusalem from the Crusaders in the late 12th century.
First elected president in 1999, he negotiated a truce to end the fighting and wrested power from the secretive military-based establishment known as "le pouvoir" (the power).
Seven decades later, the plight of Tatars was back in focus after Russia wrested control of Crimea and backed a pro-Russian separatist insurgency on the eastern mainland.
One that uses a name embedded in French patrimony but wrested into the 21st century by the designer Nicolas Ghesquière to communicate a mix of history and modernity.
The western half of the city of Mosul, most of the Syrian city of Raqqa and numerous others wrested from the militants along the way are in ruins.
On Monday, British lawmakers wrested control of the parliamentary agenda from the government for a day in a highly unusual bid to find a way through the Brexit impasse.
Elliott wrested control of TIM's board last May after accusing Vivendi of looking after its own interests and calling for a more radical shake-up of the telecoms group.
Game 5 is Saturday night in Tennessee, and the Predators have wrested home-ice advantage back in the matchup of the NHL's two best teams during the regular season.
Telecom Italia is currently caught up in a boardroom battle for control between Vivendi and activist fund Elliott which earlier this year wrested control from the French media giant.
But inside us, there lurks the suspicion that those warped and melted visions might just be who we really are, self-portraits wrested from the core of our unconscious.
The police in Almaty said the attacker wrested a rifle from a guard at a police station, wounded him and then used the weapon to kill three police officers.
The walls of my kitchen were still marked with the rough outlines of the cabinetry my ex had wrested off years earlier in his aborted attempt at an upgrade.
"Thank you," the older man whispered to Mr. Shaw, who a day earlier had wrested an assault rifle from a gunman at a Waffle House restaurant near downtown Nashville.
In the last few years, federal officials have wrested similar agreements on ending the placement of young inmates in solitary confinement at local jails in Baltimore; Jefferson County, Ala.
Instead, it coronated a new king as Ruiz Jr. wrested the WBA, WBO, and IBF world titles away from Joshua&aposs waist — honors he still owns to this day.
While Trump may take comfort in having wrested control of the GOP, elected Republicans labor under a miasma of dread as they stare ahead to midterm elections in November.
Syrian Democratic Forces officers, however, were emphatic in phone interviews and public statements that they had finally wrested control of the city from the militants after a monthslong campaign.
In late July, Iraqi security forces wrested back control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, three years after Islamic State had declared it the de facto capital of its "caliphate".
" It marked the second straight day of Trump, now back in control of a Twitter account aides had wrested away in the closing stages of the campaign, raging against "Hamilton.
TWO months after Turkish tanks flanked by Syrian insurgents wrested it from Islamic State (IS), the border town of Jarablus, in Syria's north, is slowly getting back on its feet.
With the help of airstrikes from the US-led coalition, Iraqi troops wrested control this month of a major city, Ramadi, from the group also known as IS or ISIS.
First elected president in 1999, he negotiated a truce to end the fighting and wrested power from the secretive military-based establishment known as "le pouvoir" (the powers-that-be).
It's been No. 213.77 among younger viewers for many of those years (though NBC won the crown in 22014-'215 and 250-'218, before CBS wrested it back this season).
The setbacks come after coalition forces backed by U.S. airstrikes and advisors took back Fallujah, Iraq, and wrested control of much of the IS stronghold in Mosul, also in Iraq.
A Zelenskiy victory would raise concerns about the fate of PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest lender, which the government wrested from Kolomoisky in 2016 and then shored up with billions of dollars.
Elliott, with a stake of just under 10 percent, last year wrested control of TIM's board from Vivendi, which has a holding of nearly 24 percent in the Italian company.
Since late 2015, government forces backed by U.S.-led coalition air power have wrested back large amounts of northern and western territory overrun by IS in a shock 2014 offensive.
Nothing ventures above $16, and for that you get humba, a whole pig's leg that looks as if it were wrested from a beast whose steps once shook the earth.
We beat back the foliage and poison ivy and wrested open the door, then waited for our night eyes and saw that we were in a large poplar-floored kitchen.
Although many Rohingya were considered citizens when Myanmar, also known as Burma, became independent in 1948, the military junta that wrested power in 1962 began stripping them of their rights.
As airstrikes rained down on Aleppo while the Syrian government wrested the city from rebel forces, Bana al-Abed and her mother, Fatemah, were tweeting daily about life under siege.
The European Union had hoped the scarred region had been wrested from the grasp of militant nationalism via funds for reconstruction and a prospect of European integration after democratic reforms.
Molinari, 36, was paired with Woods in the final round of last year's British Open and wrested the lead from him down the stretch to win his first major title.
In the 2014 general elections, the B.J.P. picked up more than 280 seats in the Lok Sabha and wrested a majority from a coalition led by the Indian National Congress.
They are the progeny of sixty-seven farmers who purchased property in the area from a local reverend after the British wrested control of the Cape Colony from the Dutch.
The authorities said there would have been greater bloodshed had a 29-year-old customer, James Shaw Jr., not wrested the rifle away from Mr. Reinking while he was reloading.
Race riots in 1969 brought Pas and UMNO together — only for Pas to pull out of Barisan Nasional in the late 1970s as UMNO wrested away its stronghold state, Kelantan.
Finkenauer, who wrested control of the northeastern Iowa seat from Republican Rod Blum in the 2018 midterms, will campaign with Biden during a five-day Iowa tour that begins Thursday.
In the car category, five times bike champion Cyril Despres of France took his first stage win and wrested the overall lead from compatriot and fellow Peugeot driver Sebastien Loeb.
Operated on an artisanal basis, much of its output was smuggled out of the country until the government and the official sector finally wrested legal control from the "garimpeiros" in 1992.
Although his government moves at a glacial pace, earning him the nickname "Baba Go Slow", he has wrested back control of the main towns in three states overrun by Boko Haram.
Democrats wrested control of the U.S. House of Representatives from Trump's Republicans in midterm elections seen as a referendum on his two-year-old presidency and closely watched around the world.
ET, SNF (Calgary), FSN Southwest (Dallas) ABOUT THE FLAMES (24-21-33): Chad Johnson has wrested starting duties away from Brian Elliott and is expected to be in net on Tuesday.
Taking up a senior governmental position in a country that had only just wrested freedom from a 30-year dictatorship was pretty much the antithesis of his vision for the future.
Meanwhile, Democrats wrested both chambers of Virginia's legislature from narrow Republican majorities, which would give the party complete control of the state government for the first time in a quarter-century.
It wrested seven governorships from Republicans, and while the wave wasn't big enough to lift Andrew Gillum in Florida or Beto O'Rourke in Texas, they demonstrated unexpected strength in their campaigns.
One source familiar with Trump's thinking told CNN that a week ago, the President was sanguine and in a decent mood, believing he had finally wrested control of the White House.
Asked when Britain's Parliament has last wrested control over policy from the government in this way, Mr. Goodwin said "crikey," and guessed that it dated back to the Second World War.
For the first time, Velazquez's longtime employer, Telemundo, one of the main Spanish-language broadcast networks in the United States, had wrested away World Cup broadcast rights from Univision, its archrival.
All that mattered to us was that the site was responsible for half of all book sales, which meant it had wrested control of the most important levers: pricing and distribution.
Elliott, which owns 9.4 percent of TIM, wrested control from Vivendi in May by appointing two thirds of the board after accusing the French investor of serving only its own interests.
Republicans also wrested control of the Iowa Senate from Democrats and appeared poised to maintain their majority in the Minnesota House of Representatives, which had been targeted by Democrats, according to NCSL.
Her announcement was followed by a series of "indicative votes" on alternative Brexit options — meant to gauge support for strategies other than her deal after the Commons wrested control from the government.
Majority-Albanian Kosovo declared independence in 2008, almost a decade after NATO air strikes wrested control of the territory away from Belgrade to end a counter-insurgency campaign by Serbian security forces.
A 5-year-old boy was in fair condition on Saturday after his mother wrested him from a mountain lion that had pounced on the child outside their home near Aspen, Colo.
And Prince Mohammed's kingdom is looking more like a "secular" than a "theocratic" state in which sovereignty has finally been wrested from clan and cleric to be claimed directly by the monarchy.
Since succeeding his father, Kadyrov has wrested power not just from the Russian generals and intelligence officers who once oversaw Chechnya but also from internal rivals hailing from other prominent Chechen clans.
Chawrasia, however, wrested back the advantage with a birdie on the eighth and finished with a four-day total of 15-under while South Korean Wang and Lahiri finished on 13-under.
In his depiction of Chandler, Lonergan challenges a bromide that is often invoked in the face of depression or sorrow: that personal growth can be wrested from even the most terrible suffering.
After the 76ers' Robert Covington prolonged the game by banking in a 3-pointer to tie the score, 107-107, with 7.4 seconds left in the first overtime, the Knicks finally wrested control.
In 1999, former Minas Governor Itamar Franco wrested control of Cemig from AES Corp and Southern Co in courts, saying the privatization process by which the firms took over the utility was questionable.
In Kentucky, Republican legislators who wrested control of the state House from Democrats after 95 years in the minority have used the first days of the new session to dramatically change state law.
And perhaps most alarming of all, the people of "inalienable" territories wrested from the motherland by predatory imperialists—Hong Kong and Taiwan—show no enthusiasm at all for a return to its bosom.
Last month, UAE-backed southern Yemeni forces wrested control of Aden from forces loyal to Hadi in several days of fighting that ended with a truce brokered by Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
But as I traveled the coast of the Philippines looking for a boat to take me, the chief worry was China, which wrested control of the reef from the Philippines four years ago.
From the moment she wrested the title from Rousey's waist, Holm made it clear that, if it was the fight the world wanted, she would happily jump up to featherweight to fight Cyborg.
Palmer, however, wrested back management control of the plant last week as the head of a new joint-venture, Queensland Nickel Sales Pty Ltd and announced his intention to keep the refinery open.
By running a campaign heavy on both policy and biographical details, she has wrested some high-profile liberal supporters away from Mr. Sanders, and in some polls, has shown signs of ticking upward.
Whitaker's elevation also wrested control of the Russia probe away from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has shielded Mueller, and is viewed in Washington as a nonpolitical career official acting with integrity.
That threat is ameliorating today, because of increased domestic oil production and a more efficient auto fleet, but are we really dumb enough to give back this leverage we finally wrested from OPEC?
While Mr. Kihuen was relatively unknown before the harassment allegations came to light, he is from the politically critical swing state of Nevada, where he had just wrested a seat from a Republican.
"Everyone has their self-respect, and no one will sell their body willingly," she said, as her 9-year-old boy sidled up and wrested her cellphone for a game of Candy Crush.
"Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully — and often counterproductively — savage his rivals," Maggie Haberman, Ashley Parker, Jeremy W. Peters, and Michael Barbaro write.
A new joint ministerial-level body between Iraq and Saudi Arabia convened its inaugural meeting earlier on Sunday to coordinate their fight against IS and on rebuilding Iraqi territory wrested from the group.
But two confidential informants claimed Morrissey told them she had gone to McNew's house to confront him, wrested a gun away from him and accidentally shot him with the weapon, according to the affidavit.
In seizing the enclave in Syria, Turkey wrested a piece of territory along its southern border from the Kurds, who had taken control of the area amid the chaos of the war in Syria.
As most fans already know, the "Gypsy King" wrested the championship via unanimous decision in an underwhelming fight late last year, ending an 11-year unbeaten streak for the former champ across the ring.
In 2014, when Republicans wrested control of the Senate away from the Democrats and expanded their House majority, Democrats received a paltry 38% of donations from individuals in competitive districts in the third quarter.
Palmer, however, wrested back management control of the plant earlier this week as the head of a new joint-venture, Queensland Nickel Sales Pty Ltd and announced his intention to keep the refinery open.
These artists have wrested the conventions of beauty from the hands of white artists and made them their own in order to tell new and complex stories about race, fashion, elegance, class, and sexuality.
ADEN, June 15 (Reuters) - Forces from an alliance of Arab states wrested control of the entrance to the airport in Yemen's Houthi-held main port city of Hodeidah on Friday, three sources told Reuters.
"This is a fundamental betrayal of the promises made a decade ago when the democratic parties wrested control from an authoritarian state, established a peace and promised new inclusive and just governance," he said.
Perhaps centuries from now, human beings will follow in the wake of New Horizons, searching for what resources could be wrested from the Kuiper Belt for a human civilization that has gone multi-planetary.
But one year before Fury wrested the heavyweight championship titles away from Klitschko's waist, his wife Paris Fury told the YouTube channel iFL TV that Fury is "one of them people … split personality, schizophrenic."
The founders of Steinbach came from Russia in the eighteen-seventies, at the invitation of the newly formed Canadian government, which offered them land that had been wrested from people of the First Nations.
He said the site would only accept accommodation from slums that had been wrested from the control of drug trafficking gangs pacified by police, such as the Vidigal neighborhood overlooking the sands of Ipanema.
Dwight managed to tug Matt's helmet all the way off before Matt remembered his powerful need to keep it on—he wasn't even quite sure why right then—and wrested it back from Dwight.
"No one runs to the Mall in Washington with a sign that says, 'Work Together,'" said Representative Josh Gottheimer, a first-term New Jersey Democrat who wrested his seat from a Republican in 2016.
The frequency and ferocity of the nighttime Taliban attacks are linked to attempts by Afghan forces, based in small checkpoints across the country, to hold territory that has been wrested away from the militants.
Houston (38-41) had surged to a 110-107 lead, but starting with two Devin Booker free throws with 3:10 left, Phoenix wrested control and did severe damage to the Rockets' playoff designs.
Through National Amusements, he wrested control of a vast $30 billion media empire that includes the CBS television network and Viacom, the entertainment company with properties like MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures.
Mr. Trump, 72, and Ms. Pelosi, 78, had fierce, public clashes since the 17-term representative returned as speaker in January, after the Democrats wrested back the House in bruising midterm elections last year.
PrivatBank was nationalized as part of a clean-up of the banking system backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and wrested the lender from Ukrainian tycoon and co-founder Ihor Kolomoisky in December 2016.
The Pakistani army wrested control of Swat back from the Taliban in 2009 and the area remains mostly peaceful, but the militants still occasionally launch attacks, including one on the military a few weeks ago.
And while the NRA is no stranger to pivots — gun-rights absolutists wrested control of the group from the more sports-shooting enthusiast wing in 1977 — the latest NRA ad is more of a rebrand.
Around a third of the country still remains out of government hands in the north and east, most of it held by U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces that wrested it from the Islamic State group.
Genish was appointed last year to run the underperforming former monopoly by TIM's then controlling shareholder, French media group Vivendi, but since then directors backed by activist fund Elliott have wrested control of the board.
In addition to the Banda Massacre, it wrested control of the Asian spice trade from the Spanish and Portuguese, went on to own virtually all of Indonesia, and monopolized trade with Japan for 200 years.
The Nigerian Army and coalition forces from Niger, Chad and Cameroon — with the help of foreign advisers, including Americans — have successfully wrested some territory from Boko Haram in Nigeria and cut off its supply routes.
Shaun Livingston hit two free throws with 46.9 seconds left to cut Golden State's deficit to 105-103, and Draymond Green wrested the ball from the Celtics' Amir Johnson moments later for his sixth steal.
Mr. Issa had the Benghazi investigation wrested away from him after nobody could substantiate his claim that as Americans were being attacked, the defense secretary, Leon Panetta, was told to "stand down" by Hillary Clinton.
PrivatBank was nationalised as part of a clean-up of the banking system backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and wrested the lender from Ukrainian tycoon and co-founder Ihor Kolomoisky in December 2016.
Florida held a convention as required, but delegates who represented the antebellum power structure and opposed Reconstruction wrested control from the radical Republicans (some of whom were black) who were trying to remake the South.
Struff continued to persevere, breaking his opponent three times in the third set, but Djokovic wrested back initiative early in the fourth and closed the match out with the third break of the German's serve.
The Edo period ended after Japan was humiliated by demands from a militarily superior West – the black ships of Commodore Perry wrested concessions from a country that had once confined Western traders to offshore islands.
He had almost wrested the Republican nomination from incumbent Gerald Ford in 1976, which had softened his image as a right-winger and made him more credible as a reasonable alternative to Carter's flawed policies.
And while government and military officials maintain that they have wrested control of territory from Boko Haram, a handful of people have been showing up in Maiduguri recently, saying their villages have been overtaken as well.
The bout of the tournament electrified viewers late Friday when Cheick Sallah Cisse, of the Ivory Coast, with a last-second spin kick wrested the gold medal in the under 80kg category from Briton Lutalo Muhammad.
Take a look at restaurant owner Kequi Wang's face: That's the surprised look of someone suddenly realizing that the gun she defiantly wrested off a robber -- because she thought it was a fake -- is very real.
Just 35 years old, the beaming and rather surprised nightclub owner learned that he had wrested the Sheffield Hallam seat off Nick Clegg, the august former deputy prime minister and ex-leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Jamal Murray scored 34 points and Nikola Jokic collected 21 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists as the visiting Denver Nuggets wrested back homecourt advantage with a 116-112 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers Sunday.
Lourenço, who took office in September when dos Santos stepped down after nearly four decades in power, has swiftly wrested control of key areas of the state by pushing aside powerful figures associated with his predecessor.
Chinese forces wrested control of Scarborough Shoal in the Spratlys from the Philippines after an extended standoff four years ago, a move that President Benigno S. Aquino III later compared to Nazi Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia.
Markets have been buoyed by hopes of a more stable political backdrop after Turkey's opposition wrested control of Istanbul, Turkey's biggest city, from President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party in a re-run mayoral election last month.
Leh is the largest town in the remote region of Ladakh, where locals have long wrested a living from herding goats and tending barley and wheat fields, ringed by 6,000-metre (19,0003-foot) snow-capped peaks.
The delay to Brexit will be yet another crushing blow to Johnson's time in charge of the U.K., which has seen him lose multiple votes in Parliament and have the future of Brexit wrested from his control.
Backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which last April wrested back control of the port in an assault by land and sea, he sees a new political map of Yemen emerging from two years of war.
Although the Canadiens won all three regular-season meetings, New York wrested home-ice advantage with a 20-2.013 victory Tuesday, continuing a pattern of success that saw the Rangers post an NHL-leading 22.01 road wins.
He was not even his great-uncle Thomas, "The McManus", who had founded the club in 1892, wrested control of Tammany Hall in 1905, and would greet Irish immigrants fresh off the boat with voter-registration forms.
The Koch Brothers were credited with financially aiding the rise of the Tea Party movement, which wrested control of the House for Republicans in the 2010 midterms at the tail end of President Barack Obama's first term.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said Manbij, a town which was wrested from Islamic State in August by U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces, is the next target for the "Euphrates Shield" operation after it seizes al-Bab.
She will preside over the most diverse House membership in history, including a record number of women and Latinos, with her party having wrested majority control from Trump's Republicans in the November elections in a landslide victory.
Congress, which promised jobs and "Love over Hate" in its own rallying cry on Twitter, wrested three key states from the BJP in state polls in December by promising to waive the outstanding loans of distressed farmers.
During a Red Wings line change on the power play, Marchand wrested the puck away from Mike Green near the boards to find an open Bergeron in the middle for the short-handed goal at 9:83.
As the Taliban has wrested much of it from the government's control, the American-led NATO mission, which has been drawn down to a small advisory and counterterrorism mission, has been forced to step up its involvement.
I say "legally shaky" because it was never clear just whose territory Israel supposedly occupied when it wrested the West Bank from Jordanian control in a defensive war: Jordan's claims to the area weren't internationally recognized, either.
She is in Istanbul for 8 weeks to study Turkish Strangely enough, this was my second coup in three years: I was living in Cairo in 2013, when the military under Sisi wrested power from Mohamed Morsi.
Elliott, which holds just under 10 percent of TIM, wrested board control from Vivendi in May by appointing 10 candidates - two-thirds of the total - to its board after accusing the French investor of serving its own interests.
It's an exploration of power, an indictment of "the game on top of the game" that has wrested control from the predominantly Black players and placed it into the hands of a small minority of white billionaire owners.
Elliott, which owns around 10 percent of TIM, wrested board control from Vivendi in May after accusing the French group of serving only its own interests and promising a massive shake up at the former state phone monopoly.
Crimea was part of Russia from 1783, when Russia wrested it from the Ottoman Empire, until 1954, when Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev, ina symbolic gesture, transferred Crimea from the Russian Republic to the Ukrainian Republic.
In particular, the relationship puts the spotlight on the fate of PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest lender, which the government wrested from Kolomoisky in 2016 in a clean-up of the banking system under an International Monetary Fund bailout program.
Instead of the play resulting in a faceoff, Namestnikov wrested possession away from Schneider, moved to above the right circle a few seconds later, took the feed from Mika Zibanejad and lifted a wrist shot into the net.
Ever since the French Revolution — and certainly since the French state wrested control of schools from the Roman Catholic Church in the early 20th century — education has been the government's main method of instilling certain values of citizenship.
In the eighteen-eighties, during the colonial scramble for Africa, Leopold II had acquired the country as private property and exploited it with such extraordinary brutality that, in 1908, it was wrested from him by Belgian civil authorities.
"It is horrible to say that you, who made me laugh so much that night, could be wrested from such a promising life," Martin Sas wrote on the university's Facebook page, which became a memorial to Mr. Hecht.
In particular, the relationship puts the spotlight on the fate of PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest lender, which the government wrested from Kolomoisky in 2016 in a clean-up of the banking system under an International Monetary Fund bailout programme.
LAS VEGAS — President Trump implored Nevada voters on Thursday to turn out for the midterms to elect Republicans, warning that Democrats would reverse the gains experienced since he won the White House if they wrested control of Congress.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson failed in his bid to call a snap general election on Wednesday, after lawmakers wrested control of Parliament this week and voted through a bill that aims to stop a no-deal Brexit.
On Pro Hockey The only shot that eluded Robin Lehner on Friday night, the shot that wrested home-ice advantage from his Islanders, struck his left skate as he slid across the crease and banked into the net.
With a title borrowed from "Hamlet" and a theme wrested from the headlines, Lauren Gunderson's new play, directed by May Adrales, stars Pascale Armand as a woman preparing for a tornado that may not be all it seems.
Democrats wrested control of governorships from Republicans in seven states on Tuesday including Wisconsin, where they ousted Scott Walker after eight tumultuous years as the state's chief executive, and Kansas, a surprise victory in a longtime Republican stronghold.
Greg McKegg wrested the puck away from Chris Tierney to begin a sequence that ended when Trouba's slap shot sailed under the stick of a screened Nilsson, who looked in both directions after the puck flew by him.
Total victory in New York would help Trump avoid the possibility that the nomination could be wrested from him at the party's July 18-21 convention in Cleveland if he arrives without a majority of at least 1,237 delegates.
He felt it must have been Franklin, who had died in June 1847: placed in a vault below a tall wooden structure which other Inuit had wrested from the ground for sleds, but which had probably been a cross.
But after activist fund Elliott wrested board control from Vivendi in May, some Elliott-appointed directors wanted Genish to focus more on a spinoff of its fixed-line networks and asset sales, sources familiar with the matter have said.
The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and blamed for spreading Wahhabism — the conservative ideology dominant in Saudi Arabia — in the 13 years since an American-led intervention wrested tiny Kosovo from Serbian oppression.
But some Republicans suggest that if Cruz could get close to Trump's number — and keep the businessman a significant margin short of 1,237 — there may be a chance of the nomination being wrested away from Trump at the convention.
The PLCAA wrested this power from both states and juries through a sweeping federal decree, blocking the firearm industry from virtually all civil liability (the law has a few narrow exceptions, but they have proved virtually impossible to litigate).
Officials, from detectives to trauma surgeons at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said there would have been greater bloodshed had a 29-year-old customer, James Shaw Jr., not wrested the rifle away from Mr. Reinking while he was reloading.
Some American officials believe China's efforts in the region echo the period before and during World War II, when Japan wrested control of island assets, which were won back in turn by American and Australian troops in bloody battles.
As the rebels wrested control of territory from the government, jihadist organizations like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State took advantage of the chaos, setting up operations and gradually displacing the rebel groups backed by Western and gulf countries.
LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers wrested control of the Brexit process from the government on Wednesday to try to find a majority for an alternative way forward that could break the parliamentary deadlock over Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed deal.
Washington (CNN)House Democrats wrested control of the national spotlight Wednesday, leading a sit-in on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, chanting over Speaker Paul Ryan, all for gun control -- one of the most intractable issue in Congress.
After the April 2018 election, in which Fidesz won less than 50 percent of the popular vote but two-thirds of seats in Parliament, it seemed that there was little optimism that the country could be wrested from his grasp.
To the Editor: Re "Person Who Wrested Rifle Says He Was 'Just Trying to Live' " (news article, April 24): "I'm not a hero," insisted a true hero, James Shaw Jr., after facing and disarming a murderous gunman brandishing an assault rifle.
People have long wrested a living from herding goats and tending wheat fields ringed by 228,215-m (2002,685-ft) snow-capped peaks, while Buddhist monasteries dotting the landscape are a reminder of the region's ties to its eastern neighbor, Tibet.
LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers wrested control of the parliamentary agenda from the government for a day in a highly unusual bid to find a way through the Brexit impasse after Prime Minister Theresa May's EU divorce deal was rejected again.
Germany's far-right party is gaining ground — we spoke to its leaders Germany's far-right party is gaining ground — we spoke to its leaders In Germany, a far-Right populist party has wrested itself from the political fringes into the mainstream.
If they are to worsen, more Iraqis will almost certainly join the tide of refugees leaving the Middle East and the government will have a harder time rebuilding areas that Iraqi security forces have wrested back from Islamic State control.
Buhari has repeatedly said the insurgents are on the verge of defeat since the army, helped by neighboring countries, wrested back most of the land in Nigeria's northeast, an area the size of Belgium, that the militants took in early 2015.
British lawmakers on Tuesday wrested control of the parliamentary agenda from the government for a day in a highly unusual bid to find a way through the Brexit impasse after Prime Minister Theresa May's EU divorce deal was rejected again.
The pound's fall came after lawmakers wrested control of the parliamentary agenda from the government for a day in hopes of breaking a deadlock over Brexit and parliament will now hold indicative votes on a range of Brexit options on Wednesday.
In a video posted on Facebook on Friday by a bystander aboard the American Airlines flight, the woman is seen in tears and holding a young child after a male flight attendant had apparently wrested a baby stroller from her.
The Gypsy fighter wrested the WBA, IBF, and WBO belts from the champ by scores of 123-112, 115-112 and 116-111, ending Klitschko's win streak of 11 years, nine of which he spent holding a major world title belt.
But the main opposition Congress party, which wrested three major farming states from the BJP in December by promising to waive the outstanding loans of distressed farmers, sought to corner the government on a lack of jobs and weak farm prices.
Gubitosi, a former head of telecoms group Wind and now state-appointed commissioner of struggling airline Alitalia, had been one of the independent directors which activist fund Elliott appointed to the TIM board when it wrested control from top shareholder Vivendi.
The father of corruption is greed, but the father of endemic corruption is cynicism, which prompts citizens to cede government to the venal, until the people get fed up, and power is wrested from the profiteers and given to the predators.
From Israel's perspective, these are "acts of terror", aimed at sabotaging the border fence and orchestrated by Hamas, the militant Islamist group that wrested control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 2007 after winning an election the year before.
But by drawing on the architectural approach of Balenciaga the man, as well as the visual language he created — the cocoon coat, the sac dress — and combining them with the wardrobe elements of today, Mr. Gvasalia wrested the brand into 2016.
The two men are not running against each other in any real sense—and even if Sanders somehow wrested the Democratic nomination from Clinton, it would be strange for general election candidates to debate before being officially crowned as the nominees.
Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, has invited a few of the negotiators from both parties, as well as a handful of other House members, this weekend to discuss bipartisanship now that Democrats have wrested control of that chamber from Republicans.
LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers wrested control of the Brexit process from the government on Wednesday in order to try to find a majority for an alternative way forward that could break the parliamentary deadlock over Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed deal.
It was also a potent reminder that even if Mosul were wrested from the Islamic State, the group's campaign of violence could live on for some time, particularly if it held on to its appeal among disenfranchised Sunni Arabs in Iraq.
When Democrats wrested control of the chamber three years later, they introduced compostable silverware and cups — a decision Republicans swiftly reversed when they came to power in 2011, arguing that the utensils were too flimsy to properly spear salad fixings.
But Herman's obsession wins out, which drives the disgraced Liza to suicide and Herman to the gambling table, where, having wrested the secret from the Countess, or so he deludes himself, he wins big, then loses everything, and shoots himself.
During his time in the City Council, Mr. Albanese got his law degree and was known as a reformer and political maverick, a liberal from a conservative district who wrested the seat from a Republican and held it for 15 years.
It was on one of these plainclothes assignments in 21990 when something went terribly wrong: Officer Lozada chased a suspect, got separated from her partner and was killed after the suspect wrested her service revolver from her and shot her twice.
MSF said its team found 0003,000 people, including 15,000 children, sheltering in the camp located on a hospital compound during a visit to Bama last month - its first trip to the city since it was wrested from Boko Haram's control in March 2015.
The future of TIM's fibre and copper network is a bone of contention between Vivendi and activist shareholder Elliott which last year wrested control of the board with a plan, backed by CDP, that could lead to loss of control of the network.
The future of TIM's fiber and copper network is a bone of contention between Vivendi and activist shareholder Elliott which last year wrested control of the board with a plan, backed by CDP, that could lead to loss of control of the network.
The Hungarian leader, whose power over the media and the courts, as well as a growing dominance of people loyal to him in many business sectors, gives him a choke hold that is seen unlikely to be wrested form him next year.
Neither Washington nor Beijing paid much attention when the Philippine foreign secretary, Albert del Rosario, began the case before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2013, not long after China wrested control of an atoll known as Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines.
LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers wrested control of the Brexit process for a second day on Monday in order to try to find a majority for an alternative way forward that could break the parliamentary deadlock over Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed deal.
The casualties, which the ministry said occurred during clashes with the YPG/PKK, took place in the area where Turkey carried out its Olive Branch Operation last year, when the Turkish army wrested the Afrin region from the hands of Syrian Kurdish forces.
They also established a new legislative power to intervene in litigation challenging state laws and wrested the right to decide on legal action against the Affordable Care Act from the attorney general's office, placing it with the heavily gerrymandered legislature's budget committee.
MSF said its team found 153,215 people, including 2000,22 children, sheltering in the camp located on a hospital compound during a visit to Bama last month — its first trip to the city since it was wrested from Boko Haram's control in March 2015.
MSF said its team found 0003,000 people, including 15,000 children, sheltering in the camp located on a hospital compound during a visit to Bama last month — its first trip to the city since it was wrested from Boko Haram's control in March 2015.
With a final offer that values Sky at about 29.7 billion pounds, or roughly $39 billion, the American cable giant wrested away control of Sky from Rupert Murdoch and the Walt Disney Company, which is buying most of Mr. Murdoch's company, Fox.
Like Walt Whitman and Billie Holiday, other great American artists who told stories rooted in their emotional history—stories broadened by craft, observation, and the ability to articulate the ineffable—O'Neill wrested his tale from his own heart, with cunning and fortitude.
He said there was a "mass psychosis by global media" making the current situation into another Aleppo - another Syrian city that had been pummeled by airstrikes and firepower as pro-Syrian forces wrested control from rebels, finally capturing it late last year.
Only 14 of the legislative seats were directly elected, a far lower proportion than in neighboring Hong Kong, also a China-ruled former colony, that has pushed much harder and wrested greater democratic freedoms than Macau, which returned from Portuguese to Chinese rule in 1999.
Samuels broke a 47-47 tie with a 22-pointer with 21:21 left in the game, highlighting a 217-215 Villanova run that wrested control from the Owls in a game that was as hard-fought as one would imagine from Philadelphia rivals.
Sterling was effectively flat at $1.3197 after spending the previous day confined to a narrow range when British MPs wrested control of the parliamentary agenda from the government for a day in a highly unusual bid to find a way through the Brexit impasse.
A Democratic wave washed over Old Dominion and wrested at least 15 House seats away from the GOP, throwing control of the chamber into question; several races are under recount, with Democrats just one seat away from a 50-50 split of the chamber.
"Ambersons," directed by Orson Welles, was completed but then mutilated by its studio, its original version lost; "Cobbler," a dream project the animator Richard Williams had been working on since the 1960s, was wrested from him by financiers in 1993, incomplete by about 15 minutes.
After suing Rensselaer County's district attorney, Mr. Schneiderman and his special investigations and prosecutions unit wrested control of the case involving the fatal shooting of Edson Thevenin, who was killed by the police after a chase in the upstate city of Troy in April.
Under a plan called "democratic security," each week he, and other officials, would travel to a different municipality, often ones that his security forces had just wrested control of, to listen to various complaints, in public meetings that would last hours and be televised.
HAMAM AL-ALIL, Iraq — The battle was over in Hamam al-Alil, Iraq, an old spa resort town that the country's security forces had wrested from the Islamic State a few days ago, but one Iraqi soldier was still on a very personal mission.
RIYADH, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and Iraq convened a new joint body to coordinate their fight against Islamic State and on rebuilding Iraqi territory wrested from the group, the Saudi King Salman and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in Riyadh on Sunday.
Here's what happened at the 11th hour: Tech's defensive back Douglas Coleman somehow wrested the ball from the Longhorns right before (or, arguably, right as) they broke the plane, and ran it back for a 100-yard touchdown, taking full advantage of the scattered Longhorns.
After remaining relatively quiet early in the year, Chinese Foreign Ministry officials have in recent weeks amplified conspiratorial stories as the coronavirus outbreak has spread globally while China has claimed to have wrested it under control in the city of Wuhan where it originated.
The two restored diplomatic ties last year and the UAE's vocal support will be welcome by Assad, who has wrested control of most of his country from rebels and jihadis and is seeking to shed his status as pariah to much of the outside world.
The fishing village came to prominence in 2011, when it rose up against land grabs by local officials and wrested concessions including a free vote to elect Lin and other village leaders from Hu's predecessor as Guangdong boss, Wang Yang, now a vice premier in Beijing.
Sterling was effectively flat at $1.3197 GBP=D3 after spending the previous day confined to a narrow range when British lawmakers wrested control of the parliamentary agenda from the government for a day in a highly unusual bid to find a way through the Brexit impasse.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Combining public bluster with behind-the-scenes diplomacy, China wrested a concession from the United States as the two presidents spoke for the first time this week, but Beijing may not be able to derive much comfort from the win on U.S. policy toward Taiwan.
Wall Street's main indexes rose more than 2 percent on Wednesday, led by the technology and healthcare sectors as the market breathed a sigh of relief after the U.S. midterm elections, in which Democrats wrested control of the House of Representatives and Republicans retained the Senate.
While those platforms were great for innovation, the two co-founders of Mediachain that I spoke with were conscious of the fact that creative control was often wrested from the hands of the creator in a way that didn't enable them to interact with their audience.
The clip, posted on Facebook on Friday by a bystander aboard the flight, shows a woman in tears with a young child in her arms, and a man emerging from his seat to confront a male flight attendant who apparently wrested the stroller from the woman.
On a day of scorching heat, France struck the early blow when Kristina Mladenovic thrashed Ajla Tomljanovic 383-1 6-1, but the terrier-like Barty wrested back the momentum with her 6-0 6-0 rout of Garcia, firing up a heaving crowd at Perth Arena.
Baghdadi had risen from obscurity to lead the ultra-hardline group and declare himself "caliph" of all Muslims, holding sway over huge areas of Iraq and Syria from 2014-2017 before Islamic State's control was wrested away by U.S.-led coalition forces including Iraqis and Syrian Kurds.
Back then, the countries of the Maghreb and the Middle East — born out of decolonization often violently wrested from occupying forces that had imposed on them war, poverty and misery — advocated for a vision of the future based on independence, egalitarianism, development, wealth creation, justice and coexistence.
But a lot has changed since Art Garfunkel first sang ominously about Central Park ("where they say you should not wander after dark"), thanks to the New York Police Department and the array of other forces that over the years have wrested order from urban chaos.
Representative Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, a first-term Democrat who wrested his closely divided district from a hard-line Republican in 2016, said his party should strongly back moderate candidates who have the potential to compete in areas that often prove politically grim for Democrats.
Trump is tweeting out criticisms of his own Justice Department, investigators are digging into first son-in-law Jared Kushner's contacts with Russia, and chief eldest child Ivanka Trump has wrested the cover of US Weekly for a profile focusing on her disagreements with her father.
On top of a reported five-year, $2000 billion deal struck last May that wrested the complete media rights package from Fox, ESPN paid an undisclosed fee to extend that deal through 226 and become the only purveyor of pay-per-view fights in the United States.
Mr Tillerson's clear words may give some heart to the people, including Christians and Yazidis, who were put to flight by the storming IS advances of 2014 and now have the possibility, at least in theory, of returning to towns and villages which have been wrested from IS control.
Cruz won the Republican caucuses in Utah on Tuesday but time is running out for him to defeat Trump before the Republican convention in July, and for Republican establishment figures to reassert control of a party that is being wrested away from it by rank-and-file voters.
With the help of a mild-mannered Bolshevik named Lev Kamenev, Stalin quickly wrested control of the Party mouthpiece, Pravda , from the younger, less experienced Vyacheslav Molotov, and proceeded to advance a moderate agenda: to remain in the war and even to seek rapprochement with the other socialist parties.
But exports stopped over a year ago and foreign companies have pulled out; the country's largest oil export terminal was only wrested back by the government from al Qaeda fighters in late April and its main natural gas port is still in territory under the sway of the militants.
Tricia Rose's 1994 book Black Noise and 1997's Norton Anthology of African American Literature both wrested rap from wax and mic to page, while you'd have already seen the genre taken seriously as an academic subject in African-American Studies departments in the US since the 90s.
LONDON — Opposition and rebel lawmakers wrested the legislative agenda from Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain on Tuesday, introducing a measure that would require the government to request an extension of the deadline for the country's withdrawal from the European Union if no agreement is reached with the bloc.
The City of Chicago agreed to pay a total of nearly $21990 million in 22001 to 21991 torture victims who, as a result of the testimony wrested from them by Mr. Burge and his "Midnight Crew" of South Side detectives, had served more than two decades behind bars.
Finally, if you ever feel like you read too much about terrorists, crooks and other bad actors, here's a name to remember: James Shaw Jr. Mr. Shaw, 29, was credited with saving several lives when he wrested an assault rifle from a gunman at a Waffle House restaurant near downtown Nashville.
Between 1943 and 1945, backed by the support of the common people and armed with weapons wrested from enemy hands, the Italian resistance undertook a guerrilla warfare campaign against the fascists and their Nazi allies, liberating cities, creating aid networks to help save POWs and Jews, and slaughtering the German invaders.
Nine candidates are running in a district that has changed significantly because of redistricting and population shifts since Mr. Rangel, a former chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, wrested it from Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Mr. Rangel is not the only departing congressman from New York creating an open seat.
Mr. Abadi's carefully calibrated statement came months after armed forces wrested back control over Iraq's major urban areas, notably its second-largest city, Mosul, and shifted focus to mopping up remnants of the militants who had escaped or gone underground in the vast desert border areas between Iraq and Syria.
But Kerber, at least very early in 2018, looks less like the downbeat, soul-searching player of last year and more like the fist-pumping, bring-it-on force of 383 — when she won the Australian Open and the United States Open and wrested the No. 1 ranking from Serena Williams.
And very likely the symbolic point Mr. Lauren intends to make Tuesday evening is that, following a tumultuous year in which he wrested back control of a company struggling to retain its relevance in a fast changing market, the man who created the Ralph Lauren juggernaut is back behind the wheel.
And she has endeavored to maintain an assertive grip on both the clock and the calendar in the years since she was wrested by the police, as an emaciated 9-year-old, from a reckless mother and separated from a baby sister who is still, in Ginny's mind, locked in infancy.
So without further ado, here is the complete history of the Kim Kardashian West and Taylor Swift Feud:2009 MTV Video Music AwardsEveryone remembers the interruption heard 'round the world, when Kanye West wrested the microphone from the hand of a young Taylor Swift, during her acceptance speech for Best Female Video.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S.-backed Syrian militia alliance that wrested control of Manbij from Islamic State in 2016 said it was unaware of any U.S.-Turkish deal over the town after Turkey's foreign minister was quoted as saying that Ankara and Washington would oversee the withdrawal of Kurdish YPG fighters from the city.
It is an untold chapter of the AIDS crisis, but in recent years some of the island's secrets have started to tumble out largely because of the work of a longtime activist whose legal pressure has wrested information from the city, giving relatives of people with AIDS answers they have long sought.
When the sixth season of GoT premieres this Sunday, April 25, it will be as its own creature, one that has finally outpaced the material covered in the five-book-so-far cycle and, in a Borgesian twist, wrested the most profitable and politically astute epic of our time from the grasp of its author.
Since the early 19th century, Hong Kong has been a political football in China's relations with the rest of the world, wrested out of China's sovereign control in a war waged over the right for the West to feed widespread opium addiction in China and establish terms of trade more favorable to Great Britain.
LONDON — Weakened by the loss of her parliamentary majority, Britain's prime minister, Theresa May, pressed ahead on Thursday with legislative plans to extract her country from the European Union, publishing a dense, technical bill that will ultimately test her fragile grip on the job she wrested from a pack of rivals a year ago.
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Sean MacFarland, the head of the U.S.-led coalition battling Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, said he is looking to retake Mosul as quickly as possible, but did not say whether he agreed with Iraqi estimates that it could be wrested from Islamic State control by the end of this year.
In exchange for a commitment to accept migrants sent back from Greece and seal off a smuggling route used by over a million people since the start of 2015, Turkey has wrested a string of concessions from the EU. One, a promise to inject some fuel into the country's stalled membership talks with the EU, is mere window dressing.
But as Trudeau's first administration wound down and Indigenous voters began to revisit the promises Trudeau and the Liberals made both on the 2015 campaign trail and over his last four years in office, many began coming to a disappointing but ultimately unsurprising conclusion: the Canadian government, even when wrested away from the Conservatives, still does not care enough about its Indigenous citizens.
"He is like the type of Democrat that won in ruby-red districts in 2006, who breaks the mold and is much more of a nontraditional, outside-the-mainstream, everyday American law enforcement type," said John Lapp, a Democratic strategist who was executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006, when the party wrested control of the House from Republicans.
" The NRA didn't create this shift, but it became the vehicle for it, as Osnos writes: "in 1977, at the N.R.A.'s annual meeting, conservative activists led by Harlon Carter, a former chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, wrested control from leaders who had been focussed on rifle-training and recreation rather than on politics, and created the modern gun-rights movement.
Inevitably, certain opinions are alien, even offensive to modern ears: Johnson's invoking the phrase "barbarous nations" to describe the victims of Britain's imperial wars; his dismissal of the American colonists' protest against taxation without representation; and, despite sympathizing with Native Americans whose lands were being wrested from them, his refusal to suggest that these lands should be returned to them.
"When you see the sheer level of retirements by very senior Republicans, you see them running scared, wanting to go out on their own terms and seeing the writing on the wall," said John Lapp, a Democratic consultant who was executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006 when his party wrested control of the House from Republicans.
The most dramatic upsets have come in New York, where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old activist and former bartender, defeated Representative Joseph Crowley, a Democratic boss in Queens and Washington, in a June primary; and Massachusetts, where Ayanna Pressley, a 44-year-old member of the Boston City Council, on Tuesday wrested the nomination away from Representative Michael Capuano, a 173-term progressive she branded as passive and conventional.
Yellowstone gives voice to this conflict — between the sort of Montanans who love to put "fourth generation" behind their names when running for office and the type of people whose Montana home is a secondary residence — while juxtaposing it with a much older one: the conflict between the Natives who think of Montana not as a state, but as their ancestral home, and the white men who wrested more of their claim to that land with each generation.
Zoom out: "This was the heart of the Islamic State group's foothold in Syria until the United States partnered with a Kurdish militia, creating a force of some 60,000 fighters ... that wrested it away from the militants," per AP. The U.S. presence there gave the Kurds cover against offensives either from Assad, who's seeking to restore his control of all of Syria, or Turkey, which "sees Kurdish autonomy on its border as an existential threat and has vowed to prevent" it, AP notes.
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If you are a gun-owner, I would think that you would at least want a choice so that if you wanted to purchase a firearm that could only be used by you, in part to avoid accidents in your home, in part to make sure that if it's stolen, it's not used by a criminal, in part if there's an intruder, you pull the gun, but you -- somehow it gets wrested away from you, that gun can't be turned on you and used on you, I would think there might be a market for that.

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