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The doorway is at knee height, and one narrow foothold of space is often all one can wrest from other passengers.

It was an attempt to use tools usually reserved for corporations in developed economies to wrest profit from their distributors.

One of the hostages was foolhardy enough to try to wrest the gun from the hijackers hand.

I tried to wrest the gun from his hands .

Wrest all weakly defended cities from the enemy. Wait until conditions mature and then capture powerfully defended cities.

She seemed a thorough master of her mood -- thoroughly confident and determined to wrest all control from him.

In theory, having elected politicians wrest power from the bureaucratic shadows ought to be a good thing.

However, as the only inherited Reiko origin he has made an important decision: to wrest the monster Reiko their names one by one to return.

In May, Microsoft announced Bing, its latest attempt to wrest search share away from Google.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has poured thousands of armed police and troops into the area to wrest control from the powerful gangs.

On top of this, a Chinese bid to wrest control of a sixth of Nigeria's proven crude reserves risks bringing matters to a head.

The president's newest initiative to wrest environment, wage and benefit concessions from private companies is the latest example.

It has pledged to redistribute income, spend more on households, cut waste and wrest control of policy from bureaucrats.

Bassanio begged the learned young counselor to wrest the law a little, to save Antonio's life.

some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; this is called trade.

Mexican President Ciudad Juarez has poured thousands of armed police and troops into the area to wrest control from the powerful gangs.

The officer managed to wrest the gun from his grasp.

Private equity has piles of unallocated capital, although it has become much more difficult to wrest undrawn funds from investors.

An alliance of liberal parties failed to wrest control of the 300-seat National Assembly from the conservatives.

fears that, with the demographic changes now taking place, Latinoswill wrest control away from those accustomed to wielding political power.

This is because he had indeed forded the river at Tianjin while on a campaign to wrest the throne from his nephew.

Nomura is also planning to wrest U. S. market share from Swiss bank UBS AG losing clients in the wake of a U. S. tax probe.

organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another.

Mr Huang's plight has even stirred nationalist sentiment among people who see a foreign plot to wrest Gome from Chinese control.

The report wrest the fact out of their true meaning.

The rebels tried to wrest control of the town from government forces.

These numbers have drawn the interest of the world's largest companies, battling to wrest market share from domestic leaders.

some men wrest a living from nature and with their hands; this is called work.

Until now, many peasants have to work hard to wrest a living from the soil.

Fortunately, new lab facilities dedicated to the study of clouds will soon wrest that field from poets, the geophysicists argue.

You were very brave to wrest the knife from the murderer.

Yet efforts by top athletes to wrest control away from the sports system have generally failed.

Sceptics have also questioned his ability to wrest power from the mandarins who have dictated Japan's postwar economic policy.

These servers wrest control from the users even more inexorably than does proprietary software.

The farmers here have always had a struggle to wrest a living from the soil.

This snail's pace is leading some to try to wrest back existing leases.

He barely tasted the small piece he managed to wrest away for himself.

A popular view in Washington is that the Treasury could call China a manipulator to wrest control of the issue from hot heads in Congress.

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

In 1915, salt tax was also the main source of military expenditure to wrest power from YUAN Shi-kai.

To wriggle is to wrest about like a worm.

That suggests publishers see in the iPad a chance to wrest back control of digital prices from the e-tailer.

It doesn't always work: China's tortured attempts to wrest discounts from iron-ore suppliers have yielded little thus far.

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In the late 1980s, landless and increasingly desperate Arabs began banding together to wrest their own dar from the black farmers.

Other smaller businesses create their own challenges in their quest to wrest market share from their competitors.

He puts his grief away; it is time to wrest from the sea the triumph the boy must have.

We have to fight to wrest power from our rulers.

So how do we wrest back control and start being civil to each other again?

The people had to fight to wrest power from their rulers.

a conspiracy of business-men who were trying to wrest control of a large company from its legal owners

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