Sentences with phrase «wrested independence»

These had been used when Judas Maccabaeus, the cleanser of the Temple and the Jewish hero who had wrested independence for his people from the Seleucid empire, was welcomed as a conqueror into his city (I Maccabees 13:51).

Like Mr. Cohen, one of the Republican town board candidates, Mr. Larsen, mounted an unsuccessful primary challenge, trying to wrest an Independence Party ballot spot from either Mr. Bragman or Ms. Burke - Gonzalez, the Democrats who had been cross-endorsed.

Ben Walsh, who is not enrolled in a party, is waging a write - in campaign trying to wrest the Independence Party nomination from Republican candidate Laura Lavine.