Sentence examples for ability to wrest from inspiring English sources

She thinks of this ability to wrest public penance from strangers as "apology wrangling", "her vocation, her accidental speciality".

Stripped of their ability to wrest information from companies, hedge funds used those expert network firms to help give them an investing edge.

Not many directors, Elvis Mitchell wrote in The New York Times, "make such effective use of a Dickensian landscape and have Mr. Park's ability to wrest laughs from situations that lean toward the tragic".

There aren't many directors of animation who make such effective use of a Dickensian landscape and have Mr. Park's ability to wrest laughs from situations that lean toward the tragic.

Mr. Morales's efforts to enfranchise the long-neglected Aymara and Quechua Indians who populate the highlands depend on his ability to wrest control of petroleum royalties from the lowlands.

THE success of the government's bid to create new "free schools"—funded by the state, but able to set conditions for staff, pick and choose from the national curriculum, and so on rests on its ability to wrest power from local authorities and give it to community groups.

I like watching him use his varied abilities to wrest control of the bout, although watching him take over and dominate can bore some people.

It lay in the ability of centralized authority to wrest considerable portions of the population away from their traditional occupations and to use their labour energies in ways that expressed the wishes of a ruling personage or small elite.

Part of that success – a basis of its 200-year global hegemony – was the ability of its working classes to wrest rising wages and/or standards of living.

The reform also fulfils his broader aim to wrest power from the central government in Tokyo.

It was an attempt to wrest power away from something known as the legislative caucus, which was itself an attempt to wrest power away from the Electoral College.