Sentence examples for snatch control from inspiring English sources

Even if Hagan and Landrieu both win, the G.O.P. could snatch control by taking Alaska, Arkansas, or Iowa*.

So there's only a weak hurrah as the Tories snatch control of Southampton and Wyre Forrest and Elmbridge from everyone's non-enemy, No Overall Control.

The blogosphere has been raging over supposed plans led by Russia to snatch control of the Internet and hand it to the U.N. agency.

Some Western officials fear the maneuvering reflects attempts by political rivals to snatch control of the Mining Ministry, a coveted post that oversees millions of dollars in contracts.

Nevertheless, here we all are, speculating as to whether the Chinese might build weaknesses into the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant's computer systems, just in case they might at some point decide to snatch control of the facility.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was friends with Mazhar and visited him in Lahore to warn him that the military dictatorship of General Ayub Khan was poised to snatch control of the newspaper he edited, The Pakistan Times.

Bellow snatched control, with piratical confidence and a throbbing id, of American literature's hive mind.

The Kennedy name (his father is Senator Edward M. Kennedy) didn't hurt -- and in the end, the Democrats almost snatched control of the House.

This is not the first time that encyclopedia-makers have snatched control from an élite, or cast a harsh light on certitude.

When Isis snatched control of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, the man who had devoted his life to protecting its treasures refused to leave.

During the course of his detention the Islamist group Hamas, which had been sharing power with the secularists of Fatah, snatched control of Gaza.