Voorbeelden van wrested

• At university campuses, communists stepped up their criticism of capitalist development and wrested control of student and faculty unions.

• First, formal politics expanded as the state assumed new f unctions and wrested control of tasks from institutions that were previously independent of the state.

• Workers wrested a lot of power from owners and won real concessions in the workplace.

• Their prominence in working groups enabled police representatives to frustrate agreement and important concessions were wrested from government.

• In very difficult personal circumstances, disabled people have wrested control from professionals, at least in limited ways.

• In 1912, the department wrested control of parcel post delivery from the nation's express companies, rendering them obsolete in the parcel market in under a decade.

• In addition, agricultural cooperatives and ministry bureaucrats wrested control over the regulation of key farm inputs such as petroleum and fertilizers away from business interests and their allies in government.

• The great transforming force in modern human history has been a voracious capitalism, which, for example, has invaded the family and wrested from it its traditional socializing functions.

• That privilege will only be taken from us when it is forcibly wrested.

• It was not a concession wrested from unwilling clerics.

• From our capacity in these days to create wealth surely can be wrested some standards of supplementary pensions of the aged?

• This is a great opportunity to harness all that has now been wrested in the name of science and is now available to us.

• They preferred a settlement necessarily unstable because it could only be wrested by force.

• Once the scientists have wrested secrets from nature, the secrets cannot be returned to nature.

• It does not help if large amounts of money are wrested from education — no matter how many lovely nouns such as "articulateness" are used.