Sentence examples for to prise from from inspiring English sources

It stepped up its drive to prise from the army the job of curbing terrorism and other roles that are normally police work.

This in practice means the sale of strategic assets, which Kremlin-backed firms are trying to prise from the Belarusian state.

He lives in the San Diego mansion that he managed to prise from Cohen after Cohen tried to push it through a fake bankruptcy in September 2001.

Levy has considered other candidates, including Ajax's Frank De Boer and Southampton's Mauricio Pochettino, but either one would be difficult to prise from their employer.

How would you like to be disturbed by a total stranger on your doorstep trying to prise from you your voting intentions in an election you are barely aware of, have hardly considered, and would rather ignore?

Reports suggest he would cost £17.7m to prise from Rennes, who have lost their last two Ligue 1 games to end any hope they had of qualifying for next season's Champions League.

Otherwise, how did he manage not only to prise Figo from Barcelona, Zidane from Juventus and Ronaldo from Internazionale, but to turn each of these expensive purchases into almost instant profit?

There's scarcely a torture technique that Jack Bauer hasn't employed to prise information from a suspect, apart from making them watch season six.

Headhunters from California and Ireland sought to prise him from Bangor, but it was not until 1965, when he became the first professor of Irish at Aberystwyth, that Caerwyn severed his cherished links with his alma mater.

"Apparently his coronation had to be delayed to allow Bishop Dunstan to prise Eadwig from his bed, and from between the arms of his 'strumpet' and the strumpet's mother – he was only 16 at the time," said Roberts.

And the more skilful journalists and scholarly researchers will find ways of using the Freedom of Information Act to prise material from the Cabinet Office and the Defence Intelligence Staff, which are not exempt from the statute's reach.New methods of recruitment and training may matter a great deal.