Wrested

An alert reader has wrested from the City of Portland a budget and a description (with some drawings) of the construction plans for the proposed remodeling of PGE Park to dedicate it exclusively to "major league" (by U.S. standards) soccer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although the Detroit producers made free use of 'hydrofluoric acid', the metallic ping-pong tone wrested from the Rolf Harris Stylophone, they also often based tracks on funky basslines; acid techno, in contrast was predicated entirely on the Stylophone. ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)

That they have not long since been wrested from the hands of the barbarous and decadent peoples who possess them is due, not to the military prowess of such peoples, but to the jealous vigilance of the industrial nations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not the same as the value of what you have already wrested from the state (ie, from your fellow citizens). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Holland, and later England, pragmatically allowed "New Christians" (who had wealth, international trade connections and a hatred of Spain) to settle in the colonies they wrested from the Spanish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the secrets can be wrested from the statistics by reading them against the historical record of autopsy reports. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Our own short time on earth is in any case "only a fragment wrested from the storm", because life must not be shadowed by man's masochistic "memento mori" that meets the reader, such as in baroque poetry. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Woods coaxed five birdies out of a seven-hole stretch for a 67, piling one more masterful round on top of the two he'd already wrested from the Old Course. ❋ Unknown (2000)

His purpose in going to the north had been twofold -- to receive homage as Count of Holland and Zealand, and to use his new dignity to obtain large sums of money for which he saw immediate need if he were to hold Louis to the terms wrested from him. ❋ Ruth Putnam (N/A)

The island having been wrested from the French, the British authorities set about the reform of the civil administration. ❋ Thomas H. Reid (N/A)

However they might have fared in other parts of the battlefield, the town itself had not been wrested from the Germans. ❋ Homer Randall (N/A)

Alsace and Lorraine had not yet been wrested from the German Empire. ❋ Henry Martyn Baird (N/A)

The advance of the Americans and the Allies was sufficiently strong to hold the prison position wrested from the Germans. ❋ Charles Amory Beach (N/A)

But in passing, may I say that the most outstanding battles which the Canadians fought and won after the successful operations in Sicily, were first, Ortona, which wrested from the enemy a key point in his winter line. ❋ Unknown (1946)

(Hear, hear) The Magna Charta was wrested from the unwilling hands of King John by the barons at Runnymede; but 328,000,000 of India have freely, though cautiously, been placed in the path of democracy and responsible government by the people of Great Britain. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Meanwhile command of the lower Mississippi had also been wrested from the Confederates by General Benjamin F. Butler in command of the army, and Commander David Glasgow Farragut in command of the fleet. ❋ Henrietta Elizabeth (1917)

France decided at once not to accept anything as a recompense, not even Canada, if that were wrested from the English, in spite of Canada’s having been French from the first, and having but recently ceased to be such. ❋ Unknown (1916)

On the fertile, volcanic soil he had wrested from the jungle and jungle beasts were growing five hundred cocoanut trees, five hundred papaia trees, three hundred mango trees, many breadfruit trees and alligator-pear trees, to say nothing of vines, bushes, and vegetables. ❋ Unknown (1913)

On 14 September, 629, the True Cross, restored by the Persians, was again set up in Jerusalem, and in 629 Egypt likewise was wrested from the Persians. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

[Mack] Boss: Why did you break my arm? Joe [Wrestler]: You broke [the rules]. ❋ Deti (2009)