Sentence examples for pry away from inspiring English sources

Administration officials added that their goal is to pry away labor votes as they head into the November elections.

They smoked hashish and sunned on the beach, while Cleaver and his cronies — hardly ideologues — tried to pry away their ransom money.

Even after regulators forced it to yield some of the matches a few years ago, rivals were able to pry away only a small share of the games.

Her highly controversial approach has been to pry away every bit of paint not clearly Leonardo's, with the result that a pale but evocative ghost remains.

Along with potentially trading for a pick, the Nets may look to Europe to pry away Bojan Bogdanovic, whom they drafted last year with a second-round pick they acquired from the Timberwolves, from Fenerbahçe of the Turkish league.

Mr. Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, signed a ban on assault weapons and quadrupled the fee for gun licenses — positions used to attack him in the primary race and pry away support by the Republican base.

Many evidently had been roughly pried away from temple walls and were missing limbs or heads.

After taking the job, he started prying away members of his old Warner Brothers team.

During last year's election, he pried away formerly diehard L.D.P. supporters like doctors and farmers with promises of generous handouts.

Kosovo has remained under United Nations control since it was pried away from the Yugoslav security forces in June 1999.

But there's only one America's Cup, and the winner gets to keep it, until it is pried away.