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In Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Gazette reported that editorials in hardline newspapers on Tuesday "signaled that the conservative camp was digging in its heels in its attempt to wrest control over the Majlis - and therefore the government -- held for the past four years by reformers." Watching the long-running factional struggle at the highest levels within the government of Iran is, for most outsiders, a little like watching several small children wrestle under a blanket: it's hard to know exactly what's going on, and harder to know precisely why.

But the student actors at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory bring its four characters sharply to life to wrestle with the play's questions about love, self-image and the responsibilities of artists.

The secretary of defense, la Rumsfeld, is a Midwesterner with glasses who wrestled for an Ivy League college.

Specifically, an eye-catching “Congressional Update” from our Congressman Todd Platts seemed to almost wrestle its way to the top of the pile and demand attention.

And so I've had to wrestle with and be comfortable with the notion .

"I've got to wrestle with my personal view on the one hand, and with my oath on the other," he said.

Ott should consider these factors carefully as he wrestles with his ruling, but in the end he's still up against the orphan defense.

The last time they visited the Bradley Center, the University of Cincinnati Bearcats watched joyous Marquette fans erupt after the Golden Eagles wrested the Conference USA championship away from UC for the first time in eight years.

Dean promises to wrest American government from the ideologues and refocus it on sublunary matters like hospitals, and schools, and the affordability of war.

In fact, his first two years in high school, he'd been on the wrestling team and had kept the muscular build and quickness that let him dominate in two weight classes until he was kicked out for a string of dirty plays.

Lovers cuddled and danced, friends got drunk and arm wrestled, advertising majors argued politics.

So are wrestling, boxing, and fencing matches.

Probably no one gave voice to this sense more succinctly than Gandhi, wrestling as he was with Western civilization and the new order of violence.

It was ultimately Napoléon who, in 1797, quickstepped in to wrest the territory from Venice, then trade it to the detested Austrians, thus earning for himself an enduring role as a buffoon in Udinese street theater.

In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason.


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