Sentence examples for failure to wrest from inspiring English sources

Its main disappointment: the failure to wrest coordination of the health care plan from Ira Magaziner.

In an independent report last year for the Digital Britain team, John Myers, former Guardian Media Radio managing director, reviewed decades of misguided policies, stop go expansion, the failure to wrest more frequencies from the dominant BBC, and the creation of far too many licences fishing the same ad markets.

From a preventionist's perspective, the lesser shame is our failure, to date, to wrest much new knowledge of practical value from our genome.

A report on the $182 billion bailout of the American International Group, for example, was especially illuminating in describing the failure by the Federal Reserve Board to wrest concessions from the giant insurer's trading partners on what they were owed by the company.

Karzai, top Afghan officials and the US commander of Nato troops all expressed concerns over the failure of British troops to wrest control of parts of Helmand and connect with local people.

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

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

Johnson, however, hoped to wrest the nomination from Kennedy.

Her book tracks her attempts to wrest free from it.

Onlookers managed to wrest the young man from the lawyers.

The church is mulling a possible lawsuit to wrest control.