Sentence examples similar to wrested the throne from inspiring English sources

There are also fine views of tiny Piel Island, accessible with care at low tide and sporting a mediaeval castle, a few primitive 18th-century houses, and a pub whose every landlord is crowned The King of Piel – a tradition harking back to the time when Lambert Simnel landed there with an army on his doomed quest to wrest the throne from Henry VII.

He spent the next 15 years attempting to wrest the Danish throne from Sweyn (Svein) II.

With a backdrop of Monmouth's rebellion – the failed attempt in 1685 to wrest the British throne from the Catholic James II – it's another sign that political divisions are the ideal dramatic setting for romantic ones.

At the next attempt Kasparov wrested the title from him.

Investors had wrested the film from Shipman and reedited it badly.

Then the guards came in, wrested the weapon from Constantine, and removed him.

In the latter half of the 11th century, the emperor Shirakawa abdicated the throne in favour of his son and then introduced a new political system called insei, by which the former emperor, who was now freed from the ceremonial requirements of the Imperial office (but could count on the loyalty of his son, the real emperor), was finally able to wrest the power of the throne away from the Fujiwara.

Johnson, however, hoped to wrest the nomination from Kennedy.

Onlookers managed to wrest the young man from the lawyers.

His plan was to wrest the party leadership from Eugene Dennis.

Their survival will depend on Tyrion's ability to wrest power away from Cersei and Joffrey -- and his and Tywin's ability to parry the thrusts of the other three claimants to the throne.