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Example sentences for: wrest

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Congress cannot wrest the law from the Constitution which is its source. "
Republicans are right that campaign finance reform is "class warfare": It would wrest from the hands of the moneyed elite the disproportionate political power it now wields.
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.
Kubrick, was, the papers note, obsessed with control and detail (in a career spanning almost 50 years, he made only 13 features) and was one of the first commercial directors to wrest artistic control of his pictures away from the studios.
In 1866 the islanders rose up once again to wrest control of their land from the Turks.