Altamirano's arch and flowery language ("Yes, Readers of the Jury.... Oh, the tricks a poor narrator must resort to") mocks this tradition but fails to wrest itself free of it.
In recent years, the company has lost focus, losing to nimbler competitors like Kohl's and Target, and has struggled to wrest itself from an insular and plodding culture that left too much power in the hands of store managers.
At the same time, the spokesman said, the loss of the jobs at the shipyard would be a "big blow" to a province economy that has sought to wrest itself from the doldrums as the politicians have moved toward peace.
The attack before dawn on the eastern city, Deir al-Zour, came exactly a week after Syrian forces attacked Hama, a city in central Syria that had largely wrested itself from government control this summer.
They suggested the military had retaken control of a city that had briefly wrested itself from four decades of authoritarian rule by the Assad family and enjoyed an unprecedented measure of freedom.
The universe passed through its unimaginable first moment, first year, first billion years, wresting itself from whatever state of nonexistence, inflating, contorting, resolving into space and matter, bursting into light.
To complement Yahoo's own ups and downs in its business and executives, there's been a lot of drama and tension around Alibaba trying to wrest control of itself away from Yahoo.
At times, Clearwire has seemed a part of Dish's bigger plans to buy control of Sprint itself, wresting it from an existing suitor, SoftBank of Japan.
Indeed, much of Dish's attention in recent weeks appeared focused on its $25.5 billion bid for Sprint itself, hoping to wrest the bigger network company away from SoftBank.
The leaders of the Third Republic, in the 1880's, saw that for the republic to establish itself, it had to wrest control of the schools from the church.
On one hand, the allies, led by the United States, were quick to recognize the independence of former Soviet republics, including Georgia itself, the better to wrest these countries away from Russia's orbit and into the arms of the West.
