Sentences with phrase «wresting victory»

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Turkey has threatened to march on Manbij and wrest it from Kurdish hands after its forces won a resounding victory over Kurdish fighters earlier this month and took control of Afrin, a town 60 miles (100 kilometers) to the west.

Proffering suggestions for the party's victory in the next election, Mr. Rawlings indicated that, the opposition NDC could wrest power from the NPP in the next polls if it identifies its strengths and deals with its weaknesses.

The Eternal Flame of Freedom is near the National Republican Victory Monument, which commemorates the 1994 «Republican Revolution,» when the GOP wrested control of Congress out of Democratic hands.

Molly isn't reduced, simplified or sentimentalized by her reckonings with the past, and the victory she wrests from the closing scenes is nothing if not fully earned.

Still, despite being so close to victory, the wrongly - convicted Kable is fixated on wrested back control of his own mind in order to vindicate his name, settle a score with Castle and ultimately reunite with his wife Angie (Amber Valletta) and their young daughter Delia (Brighid Fleming).