Nevertheless, as Miller pointed out in his memoir, A Whole Different Ballgame (1991), the pattern of owners claiming poverty while the game thrived, and trying to wrest from players compensation for their own internal battles over how revenue should be shared, would continue.
Phil Twyford, advocacy director of Oxfam, which helped mount the global campaign against farm subsidies, said that with the United States now the sole superpower, his group believed that multilateral institutions were a proper forum for wresting change for the world's poorest nations.
The equally secretive Institute of the Brain studied the shape, size and every bend and fold of Lenin's brain for years to wrest from it the secret of the genius that Soviet ideology attributed to Lenin.
THE ECONOMIST: And as a small party having to wrest ownership for those things, some of them clearly Lib Dem ideas, how difficult is that?
And yet 141 "shadow" GP consortiums, covering 28 million people have already stepped forward to voluntarily wrest responsibility for local health services away from primary care trusts.
Until that story, I'd always taken the liberal view of plaintiffs' lawyers as avenging angels, righting wrongs and helping wrest compensation for people who had been harmed by greedy corporations.
Legislators in more than a dozen states are now attempting to wrest responsibility for investigating deadly police incidents from local DAs and hand it to state-level or other special prosecutors.
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.
Yet very few were willing to criticize Mr. Rivera's leadership, saying he had successfully wrested money for raises from the administration last year.
The Liberal Democrat leader will be disappointed to hear that millionaire environmentalist Zac Goldsmith has wrested Richmond Park for the Conservatives from the Lib Dems' Susan Kramer by polling 29,461 votes to her 25,370.
Rehearsals ground to a halt, and Mr. Manilow and Mr. Sussman eventually had to fight to wrest back rights for the show.
