Opposition parties are hoping to seize on Musharraf's rising unpopularity to wrest control of the parliament.
Rival Sikh groups are sensing an opportunity to dislodge the Shiromani Akali Dal and wrest control of the powerful SGPC.
Merck saw that as a chance either to make a windfall or to wrest control of Schering, and started buying shares.
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Kenyan troops are part of an African force trying to wrest control of Somalia from militants for the new United Nations-backed president.
The discord dates back to the 1800s, when an expanding Russian empire managed to wrest control of most of what is modern-day Azerbaijan from Iran.
Several relatives of those who died on United Flight 93, whose passengers tried to wrest control of the plane before it crashed in Shanksville, Pa.
On March 25th Mr Rajoy's centre-right People's Party (PP) confounded the opinion polls by failing to wrest control of Andalusia, Spain's biggest region, from the Socialists.
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He is suing Lutz, accusing his former partner of orchestrating a plan to wrest control of the company away from him--with help from General Motors and others.
It has asked a court to severely sanction Toberoff for wrongdoing and accuses Toberoff of trying to wrest control of the copyright for his own personal profits.
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In 1995, the mayor struck a deal with the Republican-controlled state legislature to wrest control of the schools away from the city's semi-independent school board and its impenetrable bureaucracy.
In the other town, the small coastal resort of Herceg Novi, a group of parties committed to preserving ties with Yugoslavia managed to wrest control of the local assembly from the ruling coalition.
And the Christian Democrats no longer seem so confident of continuing their string of electoral successes next spring, when they had been hoping to wrest control of both Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from the Social Democrats.
He is suing Lutz, accusing his former partner of orchestrating a plan to wrest control of the company away from him--with help from General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) and others.
One last thing: Over the long run the only way to tame health care costs in the U.S. is to wrest control of medical dollars from third-party insurers such as employers and government--and hand it to individuals.
Then in the space of two days the cathedral abandoned legal action, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams attempted to wrest back control of the protest agenda.
With a goal cushion, Bolton's advances became fewer and it took time for Everton to wrest more control of the game, with Arteta's shot the only tangible effort before half-time.
The market right now is devoid of leadership, with the tech sector going AWOL. In particular, stocks like Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) have succumbed to heavy selling pressure, making it harder for bulls to wrest back control of the proceedings.
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The Democrats only need a net gain of six seats to wrest control back from the Republicans for the first time since 1994.
The savage nature of the land makes it hard for any single tribe to wrest complete control.
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