Sentence examples for wrest control over from inspiring English sources

In the following weeks, ISIS tried to wrest control over the border crossing from the moderate Northern Storm Brigade.

American military intelligence also indicates that two senior Taliban commanders, Mullah Berader and Mullah Dadullah, both operating out of Pakistan, may be trying to wrest control over the remaining Taliban forces from Mullah Muhammad Omar, Pentagon officials said.

The embargo "set in motion geopolitical circumstances that eventually allowed [OPEC] to wrest control over global oil production and pricing from the giant international oil companies — ushering in an era of significantly higher oil prices," as Amy Myers Jaffe and Ed Morse noted in an article in Foreign Policy magazine that was published last year at the 40th anniversary.

The country's brutal civil war has given them the opportunity to wrest control over some of the territory they claim from the regime in Damascus.

At stake was the ability of management to freely restructure operations and to wrest control over production in an industry with a long history of craft unionism and worker control over the labour process and hiring.

The state, also, has been vying to wrest control over Jackson's valuable airport another blow to self-rule for the black-majority city.

The Genoese wrested control over Kaffa from the Golden Horde in 1266.

Many French politicians have favoured it in the hope of wresting control over Europe's economies from the Bundesbank.

He played a blues progression that became a volcanic montuno, and within a minute or so he had wrested control over rhythm and dynamics.

In it he wrested control over the curriculum away from the local authorities, and even more from the schools and the teachers.

These gangs collect rent money directly from tenants and withold it from absentee landlords, gradually wresting control over the properties on the premise of redevelopment.