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Venetian forces attempted to wrest the city from Ottoman control twice.
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.
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.
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?
Pedro IV, previously emperor of Brazil (which had asserted its independence from Portugal), fought to wrest the crown from Miguel I, his absolutist brother.