Sentence examples for to wrest more from inspiring English sources

Before that happens, however, US Airways is trying to wrest more wage and benefit concessions from its unions.

She and some other state leaders want to wrest more powers from the centre, notably by scuppering a planned national counter-terrorism body.

As a result, they will try to wrest more production from Andy Pettitte, who turns 41 in June, and Hiroki Kuroda, who turns 38 in February.

The push for a dedicated tax was also stalled by a parallel — and surprisingly successful — effort to wrest more money for Metro from the federal government.

Two of Italy's richest regions are holding referendums on greater autonomy on Sunday, in the latest push by European regions to wrest more power from the centre.

Mr. Sillen's critics say that he has an authoritarian streak that has led him to wrest more control than he was given in his appointment by the court.

And there the matter is likely to rest unless the European Parliament inquiry can wrest more detail.Is all of this any more than a storm in a Brussels fish pond?

Bahaa al-Aaraji, a leader of the Sadr legislators, said the organization had two conditions for rejoining the government: That Mr. Maliki wrest more control of the Iraqi security forces from the Americans and increase their number, and that the government provide more electricity, gas and other basic services to the people.

But the plan for the new, improved garden -- with new plants growing in fertile, trucked-in dirt -- will founder unless we can wrest more sunlight away from the two gargantuan locust trees that border my yard on the east and west.

But the House leaders know that in a crisis environment, with the clock ticking on every long-term unemployed person's weekly check, they might wrest more concessions from the Senate.

The Union, for its part, could be doing more to wrest Eastern Europe more quickly from Russia's energy grip.