The phrase "able to wrest a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the ability to forcibly take or obtain something, often against resistance.
Example: "She was finally able to wrest a promise from him after much persuasion."
Alternatives: "capable of seizing a" or "able to extract a".
True, the writers guild was able to wrest a major concession from management — winning a piece of digital revenues — the kind of victory that has largely eluded organized labor in the past few years.
The centerpiece of Mr. Obama's foreign policy platform when he ran for president — and indeed, the reason many political experts say he was able to wrest a primary victory from Hillary Rodham Clinton — was his opposition to the Iraq war from the start.
She was the type of woman who, when she dedicated herself to something, really fought for what she believed in". Although Trager lost the battle to restore the district's independence, she was able to wrest a concession that established the district as a subsidiary of the city.
Only then would the government in Athens be able to wrest any serious concessions from its creditors, such as an agreement to back off on demands for a cut in pensions and a commitment to write down some of Greece's vast debts.
Mrs. Plavsic, with much Western assistance, has been able to wrest power from an extremely hard-line political party founded by Radovan Karadzic, the war crimes suspect and wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs.
Smart phones have been hacked before, but Kurtz said this was the first public demonstration of an end-to-end system able to wrest control of one remotely with just a single click on a Web link.
It's a testament to Thompson's writing that she's able to wrest so much variety and entertainment from a rather scourged patch of literary landscape.
West Ham were missing injured striker Andy Carroll, whose season has been ended by a knee injury, and they were never able to wrest the initiative back once West Brom took an early lead.
Christie's was able to wrest the collection from Sotheby's by offering the estate a guarantee, an undisclosed sum promised to the sellers regardless of the outcome of the sale.
The report says Cruz and Beltran then "got into a physical altercation" in which both wound up on the floor and Cruz was able to wrest control of the stun gun, technically called a "conducive electronic weapon".
We are its architects, as a few of us have been able to wrest culturally influential posts away from baby boomers.
