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An alert reader has wrested from the City of Portland a budget and a description (with some drawings) of the construction plans for the proposed remodeling of PGE Park to dedicate it exclusively to "major league" (by U.S. standards) soccer.

Liars' budget and drawings on Paulson stadium deal (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Not the same as the value of what you have already wrested from the state (ie, from your fellow citizens).

Prosecute Rent-Seekers?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Although the Detroit producers made free use of 'hydrofluoric acid', the metallic ping-pong tone wrested from the Rolf Harris Stylophone, they also often based tracks on funky basslines; acid techno, in contrast was predicated entirely on the Stylophone.

Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

An alert reader has wrested from the City of Portland a budget and a description (with some drawings) of the construction plans for the proposed remodeling of PGE Park to dedicate it exclusively to "major league" (by U.S. standards) soccer.

Jack Bog's Blog: July 2009 Archives 2009

That they have not long since been wrested from the hands of the barbarous and decadent peoples who possess them is due, not to the military prowess of such peoples, but to the jealous vigilance of the industrial nations.

THE QUESTION OF THE MAXIMUM 2010

Holland, and later England, pragmatically allowed "New Christians" (who had wealth, international trade connections and a hatred of Spain) to settle in the colonies they wrested from the Spanish.

Alison Stein Wellner: Jewish Barbados? Tracking Down The Tribe in the Caribbean 2009

But the secrets can be wrested from the statistics by reading them against the historical record of autopsy reports.

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

Our own short time on earth is in any case "only a fragment wrested from the storm", because life must not be shadowed by man's masochistic "memento mori" that meets the reader, such as in baroque poetry.

A Domestication of Death: The Poetic Universe of Wislawa Szymborska 2004

Woods coaxed five birdies out of a seven-hole stretch for a 67, piling one more masterful round on top of the two he'd already wrested from the Old Course.

Tiger dominates the talk at British Open 2000

His purpose in going to the north had been twofold -- to receive homage as Count of Holland and Zealand, and to use his new dignity to obtain large sums of money for which he saw immediate need if he were to hold Louis to the terms wrested from him.

Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam