Word: wrest
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...that Straight Talk magic for their own crossover yearnings. "He needs to show he's got chits in the party," says Carney, if he wants to increase his leverage in the Senate - or run for the nomination again, Reagan-style, in 2004 as the one man who can wrest the country from a 12-year Clinton-Gore habit. A minor possible conflict of interest that'll explain a lot if these summits aren't completely, well, convincing...
Ideally, the hydrogen would be produced sustainably with renewable electricity from the sun or wind. But even under the most optimistic predictions for improvements in renewable technology, the electricity required to split H2O into H and O would be prohibitively expensive. So the first large-scale plants will probably wrest hydrogen from old-fashioned fossil fuels...
Sexist assertions by anti-gun activists tell women to fear guns. Arguments that an attacker (presumably male) would wrest a gun from a woman's control or that a woman with a gun would be more likely to hurt a family member than a criminal are clear sexist fallacies that attempt to rob women of agency, suggesting that they have no control over their own actions. Both are insults to the intelligence and independence of women...
...central administration is not to view these proposals as a sinister attempt by the faculties to wrest control of University expenditures, but as a reasonable effort to understand what has become an incomprehensible spending system. Rudenstine has said he would "consider" the requests of the FAS committee. For the good of the University, he must do much more...
That task fell to Coelho, the wiry, intense former Congressman and backroom operator who had joined Gore's team in June. Coelho had been working to wrest Gore free from the office he inhabited. That was harder than it may sound. The Vice President's staff had such a tight grip on the candidate that top campaign officials sometimes couldn't get Gore's schedule. Coelho banished nearly all the White House aides from Air Force Two and froze out Gore's small army of ad hoc advisers--a dozen former aides who currently work as lobbyists, and showed...