Sentence examples for seeks to wrest from inspiring English sources

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.

Cambara, with years of martial-arts training behind her and an inner rage that has taken a "murderous turn" after the drowning death of her son in the back-yard swimming pool of her husband's lover, seeks to wrest her family's property from a middle-ranking warlord.

He also sought to wrest back the mantle of "one nation" seized by Ed Miliband at the Labour conference.

In July, Mrs. Jackson sought to wrest control of the estate from the executors, but was denied by a judge.

Nokia introduced its new combined cellphone and game console yesterday, seeking to wrest control of the market from Nintendo.

So it's only natural that Southwest would seek to wrest "control" from its customers (and third parties whom they've deputized to gather and sort said information).

Isis is fighting on all fronts, although it has been known to temporarily work with Islamist rivals in large-scale advances before seeking to wrest control.

Mr. Chan in turn issued an unusual letter to shareholders, declaring himself the victim of intimidation by Western investors seeking to wrest the company away from him.

Violence flared again in 2007 in Niger, where Tuareg rebels seeking to wrest control of the country's rich uranium deposits mounted a rebellion.

Pakistan has for years provided support to militants seeking to wrest Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state, from Indian control.

A conservative Democrat, Travis W. Childers, was seeking to wrest the open seat in the First Congressional District in northern Mississippi from Republicans who have held it since 1994.