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Example sentences for: wrest

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Venetian forces attempted to wrest the city from Ottoman control twice.
Would a crazed Russian dictator in 2020 really believe that he could roll tanks into Germany with impunity because NATO had failed to wrest a Yugoslavian province from Belgrade's domination in 1999?
Among other things, the Justice Department accused the company of stifling competition by requiring business partners to sign exclusionary contracts, colluding with Netscape to divide the browser market, and eventually bundling Internet Explorer with Windows to wrest control of that market.
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.