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Source: Webster's dictionaryAlthough the band began as a prefabricated, fictional rock group concocted to sell records and TV advertising time, the band later wrested creative control from their creators. Source: Internet
Antioch had been wrested back into Byzantine control by 1045, but the resurgent power of the Roman successors in the West claimed a right and a duty for the lost seats in Asia and Africa. Source: Internet
BJP had stunned the Trinamool Congress in 2019 Lok Sabha polls as it wrested 18 parliamentary constituencies, coming up with its best-ever performance in the state. Source: Internet
Cardinal Becciu was as the height of his power as the sostituto, the pontiff’s Chief of Staff, having wrested control of the Vatican’s financial reform away from Cardinal Pell and centralizing it largely in his own hands. Source: Internet
If legislators are convinced that the presidency has been wrested out of Republican hands through chicanery or corruption, they could set the matter right by exercising their constitutional prerogative. Source: Internet
By 1907, the French had wrested over half of modern-day Cambodia, including the north and northwest where Thai had been the prestige language, from back Thai control and reintegrated it into the country. Source: Internet