7 sentences with 'wrest'
Example sentences and phrases with the word wrest and other words derived from it.
• « From there, Emperor Justinian sent General Belisarius and his force into Italy to wrest it from the Ostrogoths. »
• « In turn, capitalism depends on governments enforcing legal systems that protect property and, historically, on wars that sought to wrest larger chunks of the world market from its rivals. »
• « In 1651, both in an attempt to wrest trade from the Dutch and to defend itself against Britain's traditional enemies, France and Spain, parliament passed the English Navigation Acts, which reserved trade with the English colonies to English ships. »
• « Even smaller nations like Italy, which had fought unsuccessfully to wrest territory from Austria, lost more than 450,000 men. »
• « Efforts to wrest western territories from native peoples and to expand the republic by warring with Mexico were more successful than expected. Few nations have expanded so rapidly. »
• « The Americans also feared that the British, who had interests in the sugar island, would make the first move and wrest Cuba from the United States. Since Britain had banned slavery in its colonies in 1833, blacks on the island of Cuba would then be free. »
• « Thousands came out to cheer his small force as they set out to wrest Cuba from the Spanish. Unfortunately for López and his supporters, however, the effort to take Cuba did not produce the expected spontaneous uprising of the Cuban people. »