How To Use Wrest In A Sentence
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When big recording stars like the B-52's, Rosanne Cash and Salt-N-Pepa come together to make a benefit album, major labels wrestle for the chance to issue it, right?
When Politics Doesn't Play
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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. Socrates
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More than one modern historian has enjoyed wrestling with the question: was Charles the Bald really bald?
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His father was a hairdresser and beautician, his mother an astrologer and former dancer who also acted as a promoter for women's wrestling.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is wrestling with college kids at Fresno State, where he was an All-American junior heavyweight.
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It is common to see the book of Job as wrestling with the problem of innocent suffering.
READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally.
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We worked really hard to come up with money by doing everything from sumo wrestling competitions to washing cars.
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Women's wrestling is a totally new discipline, while women's sabre is included in fencing.
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It contests every inch of space with man, and, aided by incessant heat and moisture, constantly wrests from him his conquests and buries them in a fury of viridescence.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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His commitment to the police force is mirrored by his dedication to wrestling, a sport which he has served as both a manager and a competitor.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then Hay wrestled a nylon bag crammed with playthings from the cargo space behind the third passenger seat.
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We struggled with their wrestling style of tackling and didn't adapt quickly enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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They still hug me, even, though most of those end with a "noogie" or a wrestling move.
Marshall Democrat-News Headlines
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More homegrown products to enjoy include the legendary heroes of Lucha Libre: those uniquely Mexican wrestling creations who shifted their considerable weight from the lucha ring to the silver screen, and the accompanying lobby cards for their unabashedly shlocky movies are quite often classics.
The lurid artistry of the Mexican lobby card
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Lessard leads a double life as a wrestler in the Ontario wrestling circuit and a UW grad student in CS; certainly a feat to behold.
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RUDIN: No, and that's one that the Democrats should have run away with, and that's the one with Richard Blumenthal, the state attorney general, against Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive, who seems to have a hammerlock on him going into November 2nd.
Political Attack Ads Work, But Are They True?
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Aside from the showmanship, Ebersole will look to keep the fight moving as Hallman has a wrestling background and is known as a grappler.
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In "Austerlitz," W.G. Sebald performs a small but significant miracle: he wrests the Holocaust out of the clutches of stale cliche.
Blending Fact With Fiction
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Was he frustrated at having to wrestle with the "twiddled" data that Jones & Co. had given him?
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At one stage she was wrestling with Jenna when Barbara leaped from atop the ropes to deliver a smackdown of epic proportions.
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Those two pilots physically wrestled the plane down with all four legs straining at the brakes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Five women and their partners wrestle with the demands of impending parenthood, and discover that it's not as easy as the books make it out to be.
The Sun
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Armed guards wrestled with the intruder.
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Diff'rent Strokes actor and cast member of Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling Todd Bridges is releasing an autography next month titled "Killing Willis: From Diff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted" There's no word yet as to whether Bridges, who grew up a lifelong professional wrestling fan, will mention CCW or his affinity for the business in the book yet.
PWInsider Latest Articles
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Another friend, a champion wrestler, kept a poster on the wall of the basement where he worked out with weights.
Christianity Today
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And for still others there is the proof that sumo wrestlers cheat.
Times, Sunday Times
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But ultimately, after wrestling with his conscience, he decided not to publish a story.
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At the very least you know that GRRM will be there and if you ply him with drinks and plunk his magic twanger, you just might be able to wrestle some info out of him.
Day 3: Filming at Doune Castle
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Ratmini, like other professional women has often wrestled with this hot gender issue, the difficult choice between career and home.
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The wrestler threw his opponent.
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It was decided that Paul would be slid down the talus slope in a stokes litter, and we all pitched in to wrestle him down.
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The decision to use a crib or a bassinet is one that many parents often wrestle with.
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Bal gives a personal, nuanced account of her own wrestling with the incongruence of a black minstrel tradition amidst The Netherlands' sea of whiteness.
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Then we had a snowball fight, wrestled around on the ground, and carried on with play fights for a short while until we were all quite exhausted.
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Wrestling now with conflicting emotions, she settled for anger.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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Baruto becomes first Estonian 'ozeki' sumo wrestler
Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News
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Cardinal, accused him of prevarication and weakness, and threw himself at her Majesty's feet, conjuring her in the name of the King her son, not to authorise, by an example which he called fatal, the insolence of a subject who was for wresting favours from his sovereign, sword in hand.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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There was a reason wrestling fans were chanting "Ro-cky-Sucks!" through the duration of his last few matches in the WWE... greggorybasore
LOL: Tooth Fairy Poster Warns “The Tooth Hurts” | /Film
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The youthful energy and innovation have gone, and his choice of sport is problematic because wrestling is already a theatrical pantomime.
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Especially in his final years, Evans often went on scavenging hunts, wresting all kinds of street signs from their rightful places.
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But it is not permitted to use serious tricks when the wrestling bout is between friends.
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No one can blame Scots for wanting to wrest some control over their lives back from London.
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
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I wrestled in Gethsemane, I cried and I was slain,
Catholic Tales and Christian Songs
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Children with enlarged spleens should avoid contact sports (even wrestling with friends or siblings at home).
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Why would the these companies feel the need wrest control of the governing bodies, ignore conflicts of interest and insist on being able to hand-pick the researchers in areas of research as controversial and potentially as expensive and lucrative as climate change?
RP Siegel: What Price Impartiality? Top Universities Sell Their Reputations to Big Oil
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Many eyed Fred hopefully; for the word had gone around that upon him Riverport must depend to wrest victory from the grasp of that tall runner, Boggs, who was said to be a tremendous "stayer," and as speedy almost as Colon himself.
Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School
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He went from wrestling in tights and a feather boa to stumping across the state in jeans and a leather jacket discussing policy with legislators in suits and ties.
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Family physicians should feel free to provide specific advice to patients and families wrestling with these difficult decisions.
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At first, you could see that the wrestlers were playing along with the crowd, deliberately leaving pauses during their speeches.
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The two men on the floor wrestled with Caprice, and Eoin lunged.
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Suddenly a guy pushed Ron to the floor and wrestled him.
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Wrestlers wash their faces, mouths and armpits before entering the dohyo (ring), on whose sacred sand neither shoes nor women may tread.
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This change of course is a last-ditch bid to wrest that influence back.
Times, Sunday Times
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They wrestled against the back cupboard, knocking a keg of ale to the floor.
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I've spent the past three days at the conference, among folks who are wrestling not only with the genome, but also with the proteome, the transcriptome, the reactome, and the metabolome.
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Based on this film, what a professional wrestler is forced to go through reminds me of what women are forced to go through in the porno industry.
WATCHING: The Wrestler
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The shareholders are planning to wrest control of the company from the current directors.
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By and by, when in her turn, back in the festally decorated house, she came to give the newly married pair her felicitations, she was well pleased to see Stuart quite himself again, smiling at her with the proud look of the bridegroom from whom no human being can wrest the prize he has just secured.
Under the Country Sky
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The try-outs are part of a concerted effort by World Wrestling Entertainment to reward their fans in the north west, who have been among the most fervent supporters of the company in the UK.
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I have been wrestling with the difficult examination paper the whole night.
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The officer was built like a wrestler, with thinning sand coloured hair and a neatly groomed beard.
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By the time I wrestled it in, my arm was trembling with lactic exhaustion.
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The assailant was reportedly wrestled to the ground by a passing motorist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only the children run and shriek and throw stones and wrestle like children everywhere, making balls out of rags.
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The mackerel hit the lure like an express train, winning a foot or two of line against the drag, wrestling the rod tip toward the water.
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We had to physically wrestle the child from the man's arms.
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It's like sitting on a sumo wrestler.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example, everyone is familiar with kittens playing together, or has seen film of fox or wolf cubs wrestling and fighting at the mouth of the den.
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This blows by super-fast, but if you watch Hardison fight, he gets punched early, and after that he's mainly tying the guy up with his longer reach, kind of wrestle-grappling.
LEVERAGE: The Second David Job
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He represented his alma mater in wrestling as well as the traditional Punjabi sport of kabaddi.
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I was just starting to wrestle out of my oversized shirt, shivering slightly in the cold bathroom, when a heard a faint knocking on the main door.
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The legendary professional wrestler is inducted into the Man Show Hall of Fame.
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His Marlowe is always pushing buttons, probing people for weakness, wresting control of the situation.
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When I got to the car the wind grabbed hold of the door, trying to wrest it out of my hands and off of its hinges.
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He wrestled the lion to the ground with his bare hands.
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He struggles with God, much as the patriarch Jacob wrestled with the angel.
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Toxicology tests revealed steroids and prescription drugs were found in the body of pro - wrestler Chris Benoit.
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Jumping, running, swimming, wrestling, and other sports activities are recreation for boys and young adults.
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For most people, the appeal of pro wrestling is a mystery or is written off as something for kids, rural folks not smart enough to realize wrestling is fake, and guys dealing with the fact that they enjoy watching oiled up musclemen in tights grabbing each other.
Jonathan Kim: Why I Still Love Pro Wrestling and Will Miss "Macho Man" Randy Savage
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Employees would rent sumo body suits and post pictures of themselves wrestling on company grounds.
The Sun
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The Dudley are crude, ignorant, violent and much-loved by wrestling fans across the world.
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They had wrested the lead from Melrose by a one-point margin, and were facing an opposition that looked rattled, weary and vulnerable, with just five minutes to go.
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He said WWE can improve its chances for success by making cultural adjustments, such as headhunting stars who appeal to Japanese tastes - perhaps a sumo wrestling champion.
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In the 16th Century, Raja Wadiyar defeated the viceroy of the Vijayanagar empire, wrested the famed golden throne from him and established the sovereignty of the Mysore kings with Srirangapatna as the capital.
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One of those names that comes to mind is a man whose name is synonymous with wrestling.
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She was the lone female wrestler of the evening but she was not your average demure lady.
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The Chaplain is plainly uncertain, as he wrestles with the clerical guillotine of washable xylonite, and stammers something about unwarrantable liberty and a lady's reputation!
The Dop Doctor
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Since the neighbor's property is a bit overgrown with low bamboo it was a quite a tussle doing all that and then wrestling the tree lengths back onto my property.
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They possess the most diverse array of something, but it's not wrestling.
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William rushed over as fast as he could, broke down the door, and wrestled Anthony off of me.
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Like beating your dad in an arm-wrestle, this has been an oddly deflating victory.
Sky generation is beginning to miss Richard Keys and Andy Gray | Barney Ronay
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I would sort through the animals and grab an untagged lamb and wrestle it to the ground.
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The wrestling could have been a washout as the rain reached comical proportions and just kept going, with the occasional long brattle of thunder thrown in, but a dense crowd gathered under brollies to watch competitions of the highest quality and intensity.
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The shareholders are planning to wrest control of the company from the current directors.
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This malconformation below did not, however, affect his strength -- it rather added to it; and there were but few men in the ship who would venture a wrestle with the boatswain, who was very appropriately distinguished by the cognomen of Jemmy Ducks.
Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend
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The rebels tried to wrest control of the town from government forces.
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If neither contestant withdraws during a contest, males engage in discrete wrestling bouts, in which they attempt to clasp and submerge their opponent.
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Lock may leap at the chance to wrestle an alligator, but not all comedians want to embrace their inner Neanderthal.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a teenager he was really into wrestling (an embarrassing confession!) and a friend at work has lent him a wrestling game for the week.
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It looked less like a demo, more like one of those wrestling smackdowns on television.
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England about the abolition of the Briton's old favourite sports, it was conceded by all but a few, that from the custom of boxing, singlestick and backsword playing, wrestling, &c. arose the good temper which distinguishes that people -- Englishmen being less subject to violent fits of anger than the people of any other nation in the world.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
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What followed was more wrestling match than test of footballing ability.
Times, Sunday Times
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Australia found twined round its boughs, the misletoe, with its many home associations -- the elegant cedar -- the close-growing mangrove -- and strange parasitical plants, pushing through huge fungi, and clasping with the remorseless strength of the wrestler, and with the round crunching folds of the boa, the trees they were gradually to supplant and destroy.
A Love Story
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For the past year he has been trying to wrest control from the central government.
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A quick and wordless wrestle ensued, both men exerting themselves physically to pry away the files.
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The Democrats will require a swing of five seats to wrest back control.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few weeks ago, in an effort to cut my 2.5-mile treadmill run to under 30 minutes, I popped in "Vision Quest," the 1985 film about a high-school wrestler who comes of age while pursuing a single-minded obsession to get on the mat with the state's chiseled-from-stone champion grappler.
Don't You Forget About Them
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Their jhuggi, just next to the Malibu Towers, is built on a plot of land owned by a Jat -- a member of the predominant, land-owning caste in Haryana, the state of which Gurgaon is a part -- whom they call Pehelvan ( "wrestler") and pay 600 Rupees a month for the right to live there illegally.
Parvez Sharma: Delhi's Servant Crisis and the Commonweath Games
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He also gave him some hints in wrestling, and taught him the throw called the cross-buttock.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys
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Robert was succeeded by his sons Roger and William, to whose dominion not only was Naples added, but all the places interjacent as far as Rome, and afterward Sicily, of which Roger became sovereign; but, upon William going to Constantinople, to marry the daughter of the emperor, his dominions were wrested from him by his brother Roger.
The History of Florence
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The pilot was wrestling with the controls.
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Don't referees constantly do spots where they're distracted by a tag wrestler trying to enter illegally?
PWTorch.com
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And for still others there is the proof that sumo wrestlers cheat.
Times, Sunday Times
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While you're wrestling with the interrogative particles of Mandarin you could, for example, reflect on the fact that Scotland is on its way to becoming the greatest small country in the world.
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BRITAIN'S only female sumo wrestler is on the hunt for love - after slimming down to 28 stone.
The Sun
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It used to be that retiring Japanese sumo wrestling champions stayed in the sport after peaking in the ring.
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Out in the street, as I paused to wipe my brow and catch my breath after wrestling the bins over the curb and up onto the grass, I looked up the block toward my neighbors the Trash Pigs.
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Not only a commanding physical presence, the former WWE wrestling champion brings a gratifying level of depth and humanity to the role first seen on the screen in 1973.
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It says it can "sympathize" with the attempt to "decimate" Hamas and "wrest Gaza from its grip," despite much expert commentary that this would do more harm than good in the long run (especially since Hamas did win a democratic election).
Greg Mitchell: NY Times Responds Weakly Today to Israel's 'Incursion' -- As Shells Kill Dozens at U.N. School
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The call upset the U.S. coaches — the aggressive wrestler is supposed to be rewarded in such situations — but Gardner wasn't worried.
USATODAY.com - Rulon Gardner wins first two Olympic matches
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But even the most foolish swaggerer of them could not call milksop a man who could outride, outleap, outfence, outhunt him; who could drive the four horses of his coach to London and back at such a pace and in such a manner as made purple-faced old stage-coach drivers shake their heads with glee, and who, in a wrestling-match, could break a man's back at a throw if he chose to be unmerciful.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
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We watched in disbelief as the nation was craftily wrested from our grip in these three short years.
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Moreover, while many adolescents wrestle with these feelings, the auxiliary parents' struggles would invariably involve their charge.
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After finishing 11th overall in the World Cup last year, Baxter had had a difficult season as he wrestled with equipment problems, racing with five different pairs of skis in six races.
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This is followed by two hours of conditioning work and then two hours of wrestling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kisor certainly isn't preachy or moralizing, but his characters do wrestle with complex social issues.
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What of the rabbi who eats more than a sumo wrestler?
Times, Sunday Times
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She was wrestling or slapping a young man and he was saying, ‘Listen, lady, I'm hurt, too.’
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Ms Whelan was patient with me, though, and helped me navigate my way through formulae while Jason and Jason and Todd wrestled over stolen magazine porn and pencilled the word poontang along the pages edge of their textbooks.
Schmutzie.com
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Great Harwood took a different angle and staged a boxing, wrestling and weight-lifting contest on the cricket field.
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The young-at-heart are sure to enjoy the bouncy castle in Brindleyplace plus the face painting, inflatable sumo wrestling and balloon modelling.
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As grapple fans the world over know, this only ever works in the arena of World Wrestling Entertainment.
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The most active theorists wrestling with this demon offer something far less robust: spurious theories of ancient matriarchies, for one.
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Yawn, I want a picture where the wrestler is grappling with …. .the truth.
CAGE OUT, ROURKE IN ARONOFSKY PICTURE
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At the moment I'm wrestling with huge combinations of ISBN numbers and country codes.
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Drinking in the sozzled aftermath of the intoxicating wrestle with Ghana, there were reasons to savour the morning after.
England's Andy Carroll is not the first with a thirst for success | Barney Ronay
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I was wearing this skimpy little thing called a singlet — it's that old-fashioned-looking, one-piece-bathing-suit thing that wrestlers and weight lifters wear.
The Hotel New Hampshire
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So while her husband wrestled with the man, who threatened to pull a knife on the pair, Mrs Harfield clobbered him with the handle.
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One of the differences is when you wrestle in the States, you're gone every weekend.
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Embarrassed, she paid by cash and wrestled with her conscience all the way home.
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For months she had wrestled with the idea of coming back, searching for a definitive reason to say yes or no.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wrestler twisted his shoulder
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Your father could have retired to Miami, passed his remaining days in Little Havana arm wrestling, sipping curaçao and chatting with exiled Cubans in their pork pie hats and Hawaiian shirts.
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In his review of Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, Hari Kunzru maintains that what separates this novel from the postmodern novels Lethem clearly admires is that "it’s too good-humored to attain real satiric bite and is often content to drop a name instead of wrestling with the slippery ideas that might make Lethem’s heroes worthy of a true fan’s regard.
The Reading Experience
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One extreme example is the Japanese sumo wrestler who despite his massive size still might have the cardiovascular health of a slimmer athlete.
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In court she has to wrestle with the relative merits of justice and compassion.
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Another important during the Torch Festival is a wrestling match.
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Cosmetics are the means by which I would wrest back control, only today all control is abandoned.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mixed martial arts enables fighters to draw on a range of combat disciplines, including jiujitsu, Muay Thai, wrestling, boxing and kickboxing.
Living a Dangerous Dream
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I remember one place in Florida where we wrestled in a country and western bar with a ring set up on the dancefloor.
Times, Sunday Times
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Japan's venerable old sport of sumo wrestling is a pretty macho endeavor.
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In the days before the conference, attendees and faculty wrestled with the difficult decision of whether to follow us to Florida.
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A local police officer has been awarded a commendation for bravery after wrestling a gun from a man in a casino last April.
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Indeed, sometimes even a layoff can carry within it the seeds of future success, and you can wrest something positive from the jaws of rejection.
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Not being wrestled into a spendy bouclé onesie and snood.
Times, Sunday Times
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We're generally suspicious of boxing and we exempt wrestling from all expectations of fair play.
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Far from battling to wrest back the initiative, they panic and make their position worse.
Times, Sunday Times
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One wrestler went too far off script and stomped to death a fellow athletic thespian.
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Obama's stop in Bridgeport seems a bit odd since state Attorney General Dick Blumenthal (D) appears to be in solid position to defeat former World Wrestling CEO Linda McMahon (R) in the race to replace retiring Sen. Chris Dodd (D).
Where President Obama is headed (and what it means)
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In my years at the center, I believe I was the only nonwrestler allowed by the wrestlers into their sauna, which is right off their practice floor.
Zero Regrets
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Personally I regret that it has done so to the detriment of the more manly pedestrian exercises, wrestling, and the clever game of knur and spell.
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Another employee got whiplash while taking part in a fight while wearing a sumo wrestler suit.
The Sun
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His much more youthful servants had to wrestle him to the ground to restrain him.
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They are fighting to wrest control of the party from the old leaders.
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But many annona systems became fiendishly complex as the different political factions within the city wrestled over the power to distribute food: there were depots and distribution centers, inspectorates and tribunals; there were grain quotas and regulations on the precise size of a loaf of bread; in some places, storing corn in the countryside was banned.
Delizia!
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‘I wanted to get people's attention and fill up the coliseum,’ said Juan Mamani, 46, the president of the Titans and a wrestler himself.
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Sometimes it was a bit like watching a small man trying to wrestle a grand piano up a spiral staircase while playing the 1812 Overture.
Times, Sunday Times
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It also has an Olympic-size swimming pool and indoor gyms with wrestling and judo mats, fencing strips and a boxing ring.
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Josh Herbert, a US high school wrestler and football player, wrestles with his pet Buddy, a 204kg, 8-year-old North American black bear.
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So that wrestling is characteristic of my religious or agnostic poetry, but not necessarily everything else I do.
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I twisted around and got to my knees before he was upon me again, wrestling me down.
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Meat was abundant, for those who could catch it or wrest it from the competition, i.e. leopards and lions, not to mention hyenas, jackals, and vultures.
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They were trying to wrest control of the issue through this draconian measure, but reopening implicitly recognises that the grounds for closure were spurious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coke in the Tenderloin
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For months she had wrestled with the idea of coming back, searching for a definitive reason to say yes or no.
Times, Sunday Times
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The children wrestled in the garden
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In a perfect world, then, would tickling and wrestling be more incorporated into society, teaching us more ways to make physical contact that are nonsexual?
Archive 2009-04-01
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Wind and rain stung against him as he found his footing on the poop deck, the raised platform at the rear of the ship where two more crewmen had joined the steersmen in wrestling the whipstaff.
Escape From Roksamur
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January 15th, 2010 at 12: 03 pm calavzma says: here are just a few people who have parlayed celebrity into political careers off the top of my head al franken (as mentioned above) good old arnold the governator jesse ventura was a professional wrestler kevin johnson is a former nba player now mayor of sacramento … california’s state capitol those guys all got where they are through television somehow
Think Progress » New York Post claims Lou Dobbs will not run for political office.
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They fall to the ground and begin to wrestle around.
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He could have taken on the best all-in wrestler and broken his adversary's neck with ease any time.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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Saracens can flex their muscles and, once they have you caught in an arm wrestle, they have you where they want you.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a kind of hothouse testing ground for talent, where you might find writers taking a turn at singing, wrestlers reading poetry, or comedians playing jazz guitar.
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Should be a major tussle between him and Carragher today, neither the fleetest of foot, but lots of wrestling and jostling guaranteed.
Birmingham v Liverpool - as it happened
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The shareholders are planning to wrest control of the company from the current directors.
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Michael Cole stood center-ring with the Raw roser of wrestlers.
PWTorch.com
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This is not the world of wrestling with the forces of darkness so much as having the wisdom and the insight to change.
Times, Sunday Times
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A nice idea, but it came off a bit gimmicky and mildly overacted, though the six seconds or so in which Bincohe puts on lipstick in front of the mirror and wrestles with earrings (in another example of how a film still takes on a different meaning after one has screened the film) were very good.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
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No one can blame Scots for wanting to wrest some control over their lives back from London.
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
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Besides strength, a wrestler also requires speed, agility, flexibility and coordination.
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Even if you managed to meet these requirements, there were still only a limited number of sports to compete in; foot races, discus, javelin, long jump, wrestling, boxing, the pentathlon and equestrian events.
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In the sunlit river valley the new farms, wrested from the wilderness, and the grid of their fields, flourish in a benign, fertile, mappable landscape.
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The prime minister also told the emperor that sumo has become a craze in his country, and the Japanese sumo wrestlers are well known, the palace officials said.
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They discovered an echo, and began to call to it; sang songs, hallooed, wrestled, broke up dry twigs, decked their hats with fern, and even danced.
The Torrents of Spring
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They were trying to wrest control of the issue through this draconian measure, but reopening implicitly recognises that the grounds for closure were spurious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another featured guest was Jim Scherr, the CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee and a 1988 Olympian in freestyle wrestling.
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The attack comes a day after a 13-year-old girl wrestled with a great white shark.
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So, sir stranger, thou art not ill-favoured from a woman's point of view, which was thy real object in coming to Thebes; thy hair is long because thou hast never been a wrestler, flowing right down thy cheeks most wantonly; thy skin is white to help thee gain thy end, not tanned by ray of sun, but kept within the shade, as thou goest in quest of love with beauty's bait.
The Bacchantes
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A breaker has to wrestle with each hen to insert a tube, whereupon the inseminator releases a blast of compressed air, blowing the semen into the hen's oviduct.
Kerry Trueman: Time To Mothball The Butterball!
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It may be, as has been suggested, that what they are actually seeing is a bout of traditional Celtic wrestling.
