Sentence examples for likely to wrest from inspiring English sources

A Republican governor, Mr. Foreman said, is far more likely to wrest liberal measures from a reluctant Senate than a Democratic governor would be.

Nigel Dodds, the able party secretary, is also likely to wrest North Belfast from the UUP.Paradoxically, these losses may prove less painful to Mr Trimble than one might expect.

In short, such barbs from Bush have the potential to wrest the "plainspoken" mantle from Trump.

It looks increasingly likely that Russia and others will attempt to use an ITU conference in December 2012 to wrest as much control as possible from the US.

Instead, though, the move seemed likely to inflame the already dangerous standoff involving a protest movement that has been unable to wrest freedoms from a government that opposition activists say is methodically blocking all avenues for dissent.

In their odd-couple odyssey -- slick car salesman and the institutionalized brother he kidnaps, hoping to wrest his inheritance from him -- it is Mr. Cruise's Charlie Babbitt who seems more likely to go over the edge.

The label could want to wrest control of the digital download market from Apple and cooperate with a company, Amazon, that is more likely to play nice.

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.