Sentence examples for retake from the from inspiring English sources

Mr. Conroy, who was working for London's Sunday Times, and Ms. Bouvier, who writes for Le Figaro, were both wounded last Wednesday in a rocket attack on a media center in Baba Amr, a section of Homs the Syrian military is fighting to retake from the rebel force of defectors known as the Free Syrian Army.

The first scene of battle was the city of Gloucester, which Edward managed to retake from the enemy.

He was later captured but released, and he returned to Constantinople when it was retaken from the Crusaders (1261).

In the 15th century, Angkor was retaken from the Thai, and a few buildings were restored by the ancestors of the modern (now abdicated) Cambodian kings.

Army and militia fighters raised the national flag above a military hospital in the section of Qadisiya they had retaken from the militants, security officials said.

The strategy for liberating Mosul, much like the anti-Isis campaign more generally, is to clear areas of Isis fighters, maintain control over territory retaken from the group and rebuild the destroyed towns and cities.

Crusading became a manifestation of lay piety, of Christian love, as the territory sanctified by Christ's terrestrial presence – Christ's very patrimony – was retaken from the infidel and defended in his name.

The Hunan Army was gradually disbanded after Nanjing had been retaken from the Taiping, but the Huai Army, after its success against the Muslims, served as a strong basis for the political maneuvers of its leader, Li Hongzhang, until its defeat and collapse in the Sino-Japanese War in 1894 95.

The United States sent its chief Middle East negotiator back to the region to try to restart peace talks.The Sudan People's Liberation Army claimed to have seized Kajo-Kegi, a garrison town near the Ugandan border which the army retook from the rebels in 1994.

The village was retaken from the Germans, but the plan to press on and also capture Aubers was abandoned.

Wessex expanded further north into Mercia and the Danelaw, and by the 950s and the reigns of Eadred and Edgar, York was finally permanently retaken from the Danes.