Sentence examples for gavel away from inspiring English sources

Though Republicans need an exceptional gain of 40 seats to take the majority's gavel away from Ms. Pelosi, "the House is in play," Mr. Rothenberg said.

That points to a Republican breakthrough that would snatch the speaker's gavel away from Representative Nancy Pelosi -- if 2010 follows historical patterns.

It is easy to see why: the Italian industrial company's alliance with Chrysler is a bankruptcy judge's gavel away from fruition.

"The speaker, at the last second, grabbed the gavel away from me and told me in his own inimitable way, as only Shelly can" — here Mr. Paterson dropped his voice to sound like Mr. Silver — "I would not allow you to turn the State of the State into a Jewish wedding".

Watch as the moderates on their team, who are aware of the ticking clocks, aware of the crews who are suffering, and the cost to their industry, try to slowly wrestle the gavel away from the hard-liners.

When Nancy Pelosi first became speaker, she joked, "After giving away the gavel in the last two Congresses, I'm glad someone else had the honour today".

Ryan, after hammering the gavel a few more times, walked away.

"Nobody can get out of the Senate," said the stunned Senate president, Juan Ponce Enrile, slamming his gavel as Chief Justice Corona walked away.

Far away, the auctioneer banged his gavel.

Loud gavel, general assembly proceedings are off.

When the gavel fell, the room broke out in applause.