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Will other candidates use footage of Linda in wresting skits in negative ads against her?

A cage match in Connecticut 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.

USATODAY.com - Nets head home with confidence, momentum 2003

Coach Isiah Thomas reminded everyone that Indiana had succeeded in wresting away home-court advantage.

USATODAY.com - Nets refind playoff drive 2002

Finally, we succeeded in wresting the knife from her.

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard 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.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden 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.

A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges 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.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson 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.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 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.

The History of Ireland: From Its Invasion Under Henry II. to Its Union with Great Britain 1812

10Colonial farmers succeeded in wresting control of this land and its resources from hunting and herding Khoisan.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008