Instead, though, the move seemed likely to inflame the already dangerous standoff involving a protest movement that has been unable to wrest freedoms from a government that opposition activists say is methodically blocking all avenues for dissent.
This sort-of prequel to Mr. Emmerich's "Independence Day" stars Mr. Gibson as a gentle farmer who leads the Colonies in wresting freedom from the Brits, using counterintuitive methods alarmingly similar to those of terrorism.
This sort-of prequel to Mr. Emmerich's "Independence Day" stars Mr. Gibson as a gentle farmer who leads the Colonies in wresting freedom from the Brits, using counterintuitive methods alarmingly similar to terrorism.
Not many of us actively hunt down open source laptops, but it's nice to know that when we want to wrest our freedom back from the corporate computing giants we have some real options.
True, India, the jewel in the imperial crown, had wrested its freedom from Britain a decade earlier.
The East Asians had decades of dictators, but, unlike those in the Arab world, most of them were modernizers, who focused on building infrastructure, education, entrepreneurship and export-led economies that eventually produced middle classes so broad and educated that they relatively peacefully wrested their freedom from the generals.
It was in the 1960s that women obtained the freedom that has never since been wrested away.
Hamas will say it has wrested from the Israelis concessions on trade and freedom of movement, that it has broken the siege of Gaza and that Israel's technical military superiority has been negated by the bravery of the Hamas fighters.
In a 2010 Department of Homeland Security report, wrested from the bowels of the secrecy/surveillance state (thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation), the Customs and Border Protection agency suggests arming their small fleet of surveillance drones.
He was a precociously conservative teenager — a member of Young Americans for Freedom in high school in 1976 — when Ronald Reagan was trying to wrest the Republican nomination from President Gerald Ford.
