Sentence examples for wrest them from inspiring English sources

NATO has said it will only collect weapons handed in, not wrest them from the rebels by force.

He paid between £500,000 and a million to wrest them from Hit Entertainment, the consortium that owns Bob the Builder.

Republican strategists had hoped the measure, backed by the N.R.A., would put pro-gun Democrats in a ticklish position and wrest them from their coalition.

The race's novices inevitably grow impatient with the slow pace and "gun their engines with a happy racket, and let their machines wrest them from the still dust of their companions".

Political commentators stressed the tension and historic importance of the event as Brown, the apparently unknown contender prepared to take on Congress, to wrest them from protectionism and to defeat the economic crisis for the world.

Would that Andante.com had wrested them from the Bell vaults.

Through the thirties and the war years, Toscanini repeatedly performed the nine symphonies as a way of wresting them away from Hitler's cultural machinery.

There were other opportunities for Xabi Alonso, Liverpool's metronome with Steven Gerrard initially on the bench suffering from a stomach bug, before Peter Crouch eventually wrested them two goals clear on aggregate early in the second half.

Just as Shiites believe that Sunnis usurped the rightful inheritance of Ali, the Prophet Mohammed's son-in-law and the Shiites' first imam, so now the hard-liners may come to believe that their enemies on Earth have wrested from them the Islamic state that, according to the militants, was the millennarian promise vouchsafed them by the Prophet.

What does that mean, other than London has been wrested from them?

The novel dovetails these two different agonies and wrests from them a dreadful sense of breakdown, of life being torn apart in front of our eyes.