Sentence examples for wrested control from from inspiring English sources

Followers of Islam may seem easier to exoticize: assumed not to have been part of the original waves of occupation of the North American territory that wrested control from Native Americans, and suspect for following a religion outside a claimed Judeo-Christian core of values.

came in and wrested control from the other groups.

That contrasts sharply with the blunt measures that have wrested control from foreign companies producing oil.

In 1959, during Belgian administration, the majority Hutu wrested control from the long-dominant Tutsi.

Gradually, Iraq wrested control from foreign companies, culminating in the nationalization of foreign holdings in the early 1970's.

Cooper has undergone a metamorphosis since 1988, when two investor groups wrested control from its founder, Parker G. Montgomery.

Mr Rudd had earlier wrested control of the party from Julia Gillard, Australia's first female prime minister.

Having wrested control of the occupation from the State Department, Rumsfeld bears responsibility for the pre- "surge" fiasco, including the shame of Abu Ghraib.

Christopher S. Wren (NYT) PHILIPPINES: PRESIDENTIAL POWER -- President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo consolidated her hold on power when a coalition of parties that back her wrested control of the House of Representatives from supporters of the deposed leader Joseph Estrada.

William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who lives in Roxbury, not only eats there typically twice a week, but he also testified on Mr. O'Shea's behalf in 1994 during a court battle that wrested control of the restaurant from a former partner.

These grotesque efforts at whitewashing history mirror Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to reconfigure Japan's past, including removing from textbooks references to the forced suicides of Okinawans ahead of the Allied surge that wrested control of the island from the Japanese.