Posing for media opportunities next to country club golf courses while accepting last-minute endorsements from Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, he embodies a concerted attempt by older, wealthier Republican leaders to wrest back power from the grassroots activists who have caused so much havoc in Congress.
With military operations inside Ukraine's borders an unappealing prospect for many of the country's professional soldiers, irregular units are springing up as Kiev struggles to wrest back control of Donetsk and Luhansk regions from the grip of pro-Russia fighters.
This is what the revolution is about: Ukrainians trying to wrest control of their country from the oligarchs of Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and elsewhere who – with help from east and west – have robbed them for 23 years.
If NSW are to wrest the State of Origin trophy away from Queensland they will have to win at least one of the series' two games (either Origin 1 or 3) at Lang Park, a hate-filled, spittle-flecked, XXXX-soaked madhouse whose Maroon-hued occupants will never tire of their team's hegemony.
At stake, as many reports have explained in recent weeks (here's the Guardian's Nicholas Watt and some names provided by James Forsyth of the Spectator) is the attempt by a group of younger Tory MPs to wrest control from the old guard, some of them seen (rightly) as embittered old Thatcherites who have lost the plot.
With a backdrop of Monmouth's rebellion – the failed attempt in 1685 to wrest the British throne from the Catholic James II – it's another sign that political divisions are the ideal dramatic setting for romantic ones.
When Joe Gray and Rob Buchanan are fit again they may find it difficult to wrest the No2 shirt from Ward's grasp.
All that said, it's much smaller than Facebook (so far) and it isn't clear that it can wrest enough advertising from Google and Facebook while it invests for growth.
These techniques maximise the transactive capacity of the urban fabric, wrest the very last increment of value from the energy invested in the production of manufactured goods, and allow millions to eke a living, however precarious, from the most unpromising of circumstances.
On 14 April, a US senate bill is due to be voted on in committee and go to the floor that would wrest the right to approve or reject a nuclear deal out of Barack Obama's hands.
That may sound like just another cannonade from Rudy Giuliani in the mayor's bitter new battle to wrest control of New York's schools from Rudy Crew, the schools chancellor.
