Sentence examples for it was wrested from inspiring English sources

Technically, the channel does not have to take orders from the Kremlin, but in the past 10 years (since it was wrested away from its founder) it just has.

Effective control remained in the hands of the governors until it was wrested away by the city aristocracy after 1740.

On Henry's death she assumed the regency for her son until it was wrested from her by Archbishop Anno of Cologne in 1062.

In 1999 it was the last to be given up when it was wrested away from Portuguese administration after 450 years of foreign rule.

Subsequently it was wrested from the Shihāb emirs by the Ottomans, and it soon shrank into a village of about 6,000.

Gingrich supposedly had it coming out of South Carolina, long billed as the best bellwether of all the early states, but it was wrested by Santorum after Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota.

Nothing you've read about the fabled Bugatti Type 37 can prepare you for the noise it makes when it's wrested to life.

Most dramatically, on April 17th the coastguard announced that it is wresting control of Deepwater from the contractors, while the contract itself is being investigated by the Justice Department.

It's as if responsibility for Beetles was wrested from the designers and handed over to the engineers.

Later it was sold to the Wickham family, but was wrested from their control after the American Revolution because they had sided with the Tories.

Then, after control of the cult was wrested from me, I quit the cult myself and didn't even write about it.