Sentence examples similar to wrest complete authority from from inspiring English sources

The EPA, for its part, sometimes is disinclined to wrest policing authority from the states.

You don't expect complete authority (especially in American schools) without support from your teachers.

The savage nature of the land makes it hard for any single tribe to wrest complete control.

By the middle of the 11th century, the Seljuq Turks had wrested political authority from the ʿAbbāsid caliphs of Baghdad.

Mr. Morsi's directive represented his first use of legislative powers he had claimed for himself this month, wresting broad authority from a council of military leaders who had ruled Egypt since the fall of Mr. Mubarak.

It embodies an idealized historical personality -- in the opera, Cola Rienzi wrests authority from a corrupt Roman oligarchy -- whose patriotic mission inspired not only Wagner but also Hitler: the "Rienzi" Overture was the musical theme for Hitler's Nazi Party rallies.

He said that news organizations have "wrested complete control over how and when the primary debates are conducted.

Legislative efforts by some in the party to wrest trade authority back from Trump and rewrite the nation's immigration laws in ways he has opposed both fell in defeat.

The city has been unable to wrest an agreement from the authority to take over operation of seven private bus lines that cost the city as much as $150 million a year to subsidize.

But a print of "The Winds of the Milky Way" won the New York prize, and his 1976 history of Estonia, "Silverwhite," gave Mr. Meri the leverage to wrest visas from the authorities to travel overseas.

THE success of the government's bid to create new "free schools"—funded by the state, but able to set conditions for staff, pick and choose from the national curriculum, and so on rests on its ability to wrest power from local authorities and give it to community groups.