Sentence examples for cannot wrest from inspiring English sources

According to the legalities of the YankeeNets merger, Steinbrenner cannot wrest power from the Nets because three of the five spots on the Nets' board of directors are slotted for members of the franchise.

Between Favre and Alosi's battalion, the Giants cannot even wrest attention from inactive players, let alone the very active Michael Vick, who caused ripples last week by announcing that he wanted a new dog.

Individual departments do not have the "power to appoint and promote faculty," and therefore cannot have that power "wrested away" from them.

Raphael Sperry San Francisco, Feb. 5, 2010 To the Editor: If the Democrats and President Obama cannot do what the president himself dubbed a "no-brainer" and wrest taxpayer-financed student loans from the clutches of the banksters, they can't do anything.

The idea behind "demapping" is to wrest the property from a city that, the homeowners believe, cannot maintain or police it, said John Fratta, the plan's author and the district manager of Community Board 11.

At some point his slow start will be an undertow he cannot escape, and his lightning wrists and thunderous bat will be wrested into retirement.

However, it cannot be denied that Isis is at least leading the majority of moves into new territory to wrest control from government forces.

Mr. Koizumi has threatened to call early elections if his bills are rejected, saying, "We cannot turn back on reforms".] The next step would be for Mr. Koizumi to try to wrest control of the savings and insurance plans from the party doyens.

Neither team could wrest control.

When Hagen attempts to wrest it from them, he drowns.

But there are, maybe, ways to wrest back some initiative.