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Despite tough talk and dramatic shots, no other team has been able to wrest the championship trophy from the Comets.

We are its architects, as a few of us have been able to wrest culturally influential posts away from baby boomers.

In both cases the drivers had been able to wrest back control of their vehicles and, Russell said, the fault had not led to any injuries.

Despite Yahoo!'s and Microsoft's best efforts, neither has been able to wrest eyeballs away from Google's massive slice of search market share.

The Obama inner circle hasn't yet been able to wrest control of the agency from all those career scientists, who apparently are in hock to industry.

Mr. Schneiderman's lawsuits may be able to wrest better behavior from the banks in the short run, especially if other state prosecutors follow his lead.

While the military was able to wrest the region from the control of the Taliban, most of the insurgent leadership managed to escape and sporadic violence has continued.

In many ways, if the union strikes and is able to wrest more money over the next three years, that is money that the Bloomberg administration itself will lose.

Intel may not be able to wrest such chip sales from the market leader Texas Instruments, some investors said, even as Motorola and Flextronics International, two handset makers, report surging demand.

But somehow, amid the morass, the Nets were able to wrest enough style points from the Milwaukee Bucks in the fourth quarter.

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.