Sentence examples for wrest at from inspiring English sources

But Somali politicians are confident they can wrest at least one frontier from the grip of outside forces: the skies.

It was the artistic equivalent of a sit-in, an attempt to wrest, at least for a moment, control of the mass media from the establishment.

The plan also makes clear that the Bloomberg administration, after losing its bid in Albany for a congestion-pricing plan that would have fought traffic by charging drivers to enter the area of Manhattan below 59th Street, intends to push ahead with smaller-scale initiatives to wrest at least part of the street from cars and trucks.

The manuscript has the aspect of a battlefield on which each inch of forward momentum has been wrested at exorbitant human cost from an implacable enemy.

If this year's Rendez-Vous series evokes a sexual balance in which women rule, that power has obviously been wrested at a price.

Mr. Correll also promised that, by the third year of the merger, he would have wrested at least $500 million in annual costs out of the combined companies.

A gathering sense of momentum is also keeping several options alive for Mr. Romney, even though his aides acknowledge that his best chance for reaching 270 electoral votes is wresting at least one of those three Midwestern states from Mr. Obama, along with winning Florida, North Carolina and Virginia.

Battle for Falluja Continues As Insurgents Fall Back The American-led assault on Falluja wrested at least a third of the city, capturing the mayor's office, two mosques, a commercial center and other major objectives and advancing past the main highway through the city.

Threading, not to be confused with sewing, entails twisting taut cotton threads together and rolling them along the skin to wrest hairs at the roots.

At 4-1 in the second set the Serb employed his peerless defensive voodoo to wrest back at full stretch a thrusting Nadal overhead, drawing not so much a wave of throat-flushing ardour as purring approval at the nerveless supremacy of this balletically twisting, leaping Serb.

Dave King's continued bid to wrest control at Rangers may be scuppered by a fresh investigation into his tax affairs in South Africa.