How to Use "wrest" with Example Sentences

1. Such measures will make it much harder for the opposition to wrest control from fidesz .

2. In the late 1980s , landless and increasingly desperate arabs began banding together to wrest their owndarfrom the black farmers .

3. Barack obama has opined on it , as have the republicans hoping to wrest the presidency from him in november .

4. The military and intelligence service , already embarrassed by the commando raid by u.s. soldiers which killed osama bin laden on pakistani soil without their knowledge , will seek to wrest power away from the civilian government .

5. General david petraeus , head of us central command , has warned that " horrific actions " by the taliban will meet the attempt by american , afghan and canadian forces to wrest control of the province .