Sentence examples for order to wrest from inspiring English sources

In order to wrest back the WHO's agenda, potential donors are now approached with a list of programmes that need funding.

Or make a big call, accepting that once you begin to fail at the top of the order to wrest control back is doubly hard.

The economics of poetry were stark from the beginning — Hermes had to steal Apollo's cattle in order to wrest from him the gift of the lyre.

From October 1932 to January 1933 he headed a second government and in 1937 formed an electoral alliance with the fascist Iron Guard in order to wrest political control from the king.

In order to wrest Matisse's "Blue Nude" and "Pink Nude" (1935) from the Baltimore Museum of Art, Mr. Elderfield said, the Tate agreed to have its Turner watercolor show make the Baltimore museum one of its stops.

These shouldn't be a big deal, Democrats say, and they have accused the White House of throwing a grenade into negotiations in order to wrest some sort of political victory in the first hundred days.

Those guys are running the world, but they're also just doing their jobs, which consist of trying to wrest some temporary order out of the chaos of life.

If then you are elected President, it is the obstructionist Republicans in Congress whose power you will have to wrest away in order to get much of anything accomplished.

Stepping back and taking a longer, more philosophical view inspired a renewed commitment not to democracy per se which has never truly existed but to what we might call the "democratic project," the ongoing and admittedly always imperfect attempt of the many to wrest power from the few in order to create a society that is more free and equal than the status quo.

They said the plot had been devised by the Chechen rebel Doku Umarov, the head of Caucasus Emirate, a rebel group that seeks to wrest the Caucasus region from Russia in order to set up an Islamist state.

What is to be done, then, to wrest back the initiative from the law and order pessimists?