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When the loyalist reinforcements rolled into the capital aboard tanks and armored vehicles and began to wrest the initiative, the rebels began to break.
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The two quarrelled, and each then planned to wrest control of the venture from the other.
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Protesters launched a pre-emptive strike on the building, in order to wrest control of the position.
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It was in union, he reminded his audience, that we wrested our liberties from the grasp of oppression.
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The nabobs, in some cases, even managed to wrest control of boroughs from the nobility and the gentry.
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But circumstances now allowed him to wrest free from political control.
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He wrests the finger away and gives the man the other finger in return.
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The state bureaucracy wrested control from its architect and the architect's intentions for the interiors of the building were never realised.
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While neutral territories are conquered by simply entering them, enemy territories must be wrested from the other player by defeating them in a skirmish.
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This meant political participation was wrested from the great ruling families.
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