Voorbeelden van wresting

• His domination over the folk-arts had moreover been consolidated by wresting control of the folk-dance movement as well.

• The instrument acts like a generic vocal mechanism trying out gradually more complex exercises, wresting organized sound out of a bare and lifeless resonance.

• Correspondingly, outgoing parties created political and patronage opportunities in decentralised offices, but did not succeed in wresting power over political and fiscal decisionmaking from their erstwhile allies in the state.

• The new operators have not proved very successful in wresting routes away from the original operator.

• There is bound to be great delay in wresting land from its owners by means of compulsory purchase orders.

• That was the coal face—a typical situation where, hundreds of feet below the surface, lonely miners worked at wresting the coal from the mine.

• The wresting of coal from the bowels of the earth was a gross interference with nature, yet it led to great benefits for mankind.

• The latter see the proletariat as the chief agents of change and the chief beneficiaries of change—indeed, the chief instruments for wresting power from the owners of property.

• The committee concluded that, at its worst, labour-only sub-contracting produced faulty work by irresponsible men concerned only with wresting the greatest possible gain from the industry.

• If we were to begin to do the necessary work now, at speed, we should stand a chance of wresting human understanding and development from the black jaws of habit.

• The skill and courage they have shown in tackling the immense problems in wresting oil and gas from one of the most hostile territories in the world demand universal praise.

• By the 1990s women proved eager to enter formerly all-mail sports such as ice hockey, rugby, and wresting.

• The two men try to fight it out, but end up futilely wresting on the floor.

• This also refers directly to a wresting competition on muddy ground.

• In magnetic gait, each step is initiated in a wresting motion carrying feet upward and forward.