Sentence examples for wrest their from inspiring English sources

Plants are the ethical autotrophs here, the ones that wrest their meals from the sun.

The media's inability to wrest their collective gaze from him is one of the major reasons he gained the presidency.

Many prefer to work with men; and some are willing to put in the long hours it takes to wrest their way up the chain of command.

As recordings transform from vended widgets into broadcast data, music biz will wrest their cut from artist's merchandise and touring haul.

These people are driven by the pain of loss and a terrifying loss of control to wrest their destiny from fate.

You may also have to learn how to stand in front of a room of sneering children and wrest their scowls into smiles.

In several cases, demonstrators wrested their weapons away from them.

RIGA, Latvia — When Latvians wrested their country from the Soviet Union two decades ago, their first thought, it seemed, was escape.

Inspired by the deaths of a small band of fighters at the Alamo in 1836, Texans wrested their land from Mexican rule.

As the federal Parliament burned and tear gas wafted through chaotic streets, vast throngs of Serbs wrested their capital and key levers of power away from Slobodan Milosevic today, bringing his 13-year reign to the edge of collapse.

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.