Sentence examples for trying to prise from inspiring English sources

I drew, with all the dexterity of a drunken man trying to prise open a Bullworker.

If would be like England trying to prise Danny Brough from Scotland's grasp.

He is talking of trying to prise away smaller parties in the alliance, but will find that extremely hard.

Rather than trying to prise open North American markets, Brazil could close the door to its own.

"But football is still very much a closed system, so you're trying to prise open the doors of opportunity".

I have sometimes found myself on middle-of-the-night raids with knives trying to prise it open.

Broad returned to try to prise out De Villiers, holding a rigid line outside off-stump.

The response of liberals such as Ruth Calderon, a member of the Knesset for the centrist Yesh Atid party, is to try to prise apart synagogue and state.

Insiders say Mr Osborne and Mr Cameron are bound by a pact of loyalty and friendship that no sensible minister would try to prise apart.

Starting in 1976 it governed the province for long periods and twice tried to prise it away from the rest of Canada through referendums (in 1980 and 1995).

Even after Saudi Arabia went a goal down he kept his head up and continued to try to prise open the sluggish Cameroon defence.