Sentence examples for wrest away from inspiring English sources

A year later, Pakistan tried to wrest away the territory by sending in a tribal guerrilla force, a gambit that ended in a military stalemate.

For no particular reason, the protagonist joins the scrum and manages with considerable effort to wrest away a substantial piece of the guitar.

The company claims government officials are trying to wrest away its rights to the Stolichnaya name for their own dark motives.

Many believe the 2003 American-led invasion was carried out to wrest away Iraq's enormous oil reserves, the third largest in the world after Saudi Arabia's and Iran's.

Over the longer term, however, they could undermine Web content owners by letting service providers wrest away control of ad sales.

The Bush campaign has sought to wrest away states like Wisconsin, Minnesota and West Virginia, all of which went Democratic in the last three national elections.

It was eventually wrested away by Hamptons magazine.

By halftime, Orlando had wrested away the lead, 44-43.

Why is she so insistent on wresting away the cushion that Joel sits on?

But one PLA-watcher estimates 5,000 companies have been wrested away.

(Only this year did an opposition figure, Vicente Fox Quesada, succeed in wresting away the Mexican presidency).