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Example sentences for: wrest

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Kazimierz, a pragmatist, did not try to wrest control of Silesia, in the hands of Bohemia, or the territory seized by the independent state of the Teutonic Knights.
Congress cannot wrest the law from the Constitution which is its source. "
In conversations, Eurocrats are frank about their maneuvering for more money and empire: to wrest "competence," or jurisdiction, away from national governments and vest it in Brussels is the open objective.
In 1866 the islanders rose up once again to wrest control of their land from the Turks.
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.