The phrase "wrest land" is correct and usable in written English.
It means to forcibly take ownership or control of a piece of land. Example: The king sent his army to wrest land from neighboring kingdoms, expanding his territory and power.
It calls on "national and state leaders and representatives to exert their utmost power and influence" to wrest land away from federal protection.
Bundy said the militia intends to wrest land – such as the refuge, a "mecca for birdwatchers" protected by Republican president Teddy Roosevelt in 1908 – away from the government.
Since the 1970s, Naxalite (Maoist) groups have been trying to wrest land and decent wages from upper-caste landlords in the area, punctuating their campaign with atrocities of their own.
He was a young man who, near the turn of the century, formed a multi-racial teenaged gang in Indian Territories to wrest the land back from encroaching whites.
The demarcation process has been crippled by an unrelenting barrage of legislative proposals from Congressmen representing large agribusiness, mining corporations and the dam industry, designed to wrest the land from the indigenous tribes and open it to development.
Inspired by the deaths of a small band of fighters at the Alamo in 1836, Texans wrested their land from Mexican rule.
Bankrupt, it had tried to hasten investment by creating special economic zones (as the rest of India was doing), peremptorily wresting agricultural land from farmers – land it had once "redistributed".
The next minute you feel, 'Is there any hope for us?' " Officials close to Mr. Mugabe said he was focused on his legacy, determined to go down in history as the liberation hero, as the man who wrested the land from the whites, who make up less than 2percentt of the population, and returned it to the blacks.
On the one hand, they characterize their collective actions as an intifada -- as an effort to wrest power and land (which they see as rightfully theirs) through force and violence.
We sit in on vomit-strewn ocean crossings, shady business deals in Dutch coffee houses and fatal feuds between rival logging crews razing land wrested from the native population.
"We fear the weather spirit of earth, which we must fight against to wrest our food from land and sea.
