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Most worrying were the Seljuk Turks, who came out of the east in the 11th century to wrest large parts of Asia Minor from Constantinople’s control.
But as Peter Stevenson notes in the New York Observer , the point "feels a bit tired by now," and Sontag's preface fails in its attempt to "wrest Ms.
Analysts agreed that NATO is increasingly provoking the Serbs by helping Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic wrest power from her predecessor, Radovan Karadzic, who remains the Serbs' de facto leader.
Even David Halberstam, who wrote a book about Jordan's exploits during his last season, couldn't wrest an interview from him.
In 1866 the islanders rose up once again to wrest control of their land from the Turks.