Wresting

Will other candidates use footage of Linda in wresting skits in negative ads against her? ❋ Unknown (2009)

And in wresting the home-court advantage from San Antonio, the Nets also believe they've proved the East's best teams can contend, compete and even thrive against the powerful Western Conference. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Coach Isiah Thomas reminded everyone that Indiana had succeeded in wresting away home-court advantage. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Finally, we succeeded in wresting the knife from her. ❋ Unknown (1912)

“Essay on Dramatic Poetry,” he calls wresting and torturing one word into another, a catachresis, or Clevelandism, and charges Wild with being in poetry what the French call un mauvais buffon. ❋ Scott, Walter, Sir (1882)

While the English armies, under the direction of Pitt, were wresting from the French nearly all their possessions in America, Clive was adding a new empire to the vast dominions of Great Britain. ❋ John Lord (1852)

They were not, however, content, but aimed at wresting from the Portuguese almost the only trade which remained to them; viz. their trade with China. ❋ William Stevenson (1784)

The ambition of the Persian, to whom his enemies ascribe the virtues of a soldier and a statesman, was animated by the desire of revenging the disgrace of his fathers, and of wresting from the hands of the Romans the five provinces beyond the Tigris. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Another consideration, however, led the minds of reflecting united Irishmen to look towards a repul lie and separation from England; this was the war with France; they clearly perceived, that their strength was not Ukely to become speedily equal to wresting from the English and the borough interest in Ireland even a reform; foreign assistance would, there£Dre pen - haps become necessary; but foreign assistance could only be hoped for in proportion as the object, to which it would be applied was important to the party giving. it. ❋ Unknown (1812)

10Colonial farmers succeeded in wresting control of this land and its resources from hunting and herding Khoisan. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But secretly, the idea of wresting the house from James and his son had begun to take hold of him. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We may well suppose that the idea of wresting from the syllabary its secret of consonants and vowels, and giving to each consonantal sound a distinct sign, seemed a most cumbersome and embarrassing complication to the ancient scholars -- that is to say, after the time arrived when any one gave such an idea expression. ❋ Unknown (1904)

He delighted in the idea of wresting power from the hands of his country's magnates and placing it in a custody which was at any rate nearer to his own reach. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

But here, again, it would be a manifest "wresting" of the words to make them apply to a case which we have no proof that the Apostle had in contemplation when he uttered them. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

He delighted in the idea of wresting power from the hands of his country’s magnates and placing it in a custody which was at any rate nearer to his own reach. ❋ Unknown (2004)

There is a kind of wresting of a single word from his owne right signification, to another not so naturall, but yet of some affinitie or conueniencie with it, as to say, I cannot digest your unkinde words, for I cannot take them in good part: or as the man of law said, I feele you not, for I vnderstand not your case, because he had not his fee in his hand. ❋ Unknown (1569)

Horner next attempt can also be seen as also as "wresting" Scripture, (2Pt. 3: 16) as he asserts that the word bôsheth in 1Sam. 20: 30 and translated "confusion" (or most usually "shame") "is associated in the mainstream of Israelite society patriarchal society with sex, as illustrated in the Garden of Eden story (Gn. 3) and numerous other passages." ❋ Unknown (2009)

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