Wrest
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This is one reason why, under Corbyn, the hard left struck back and finally managed to
wrest
power from the compromisers.
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He takes no notice of her, he takes no notice of anyone until several plots to
wrest
his company away from him all hit at the same time.
The pilot, Jim Norton (John Bromfield), goes to work for Valerie Craig (Kathleen Hughes) who soon coerces him into helping her
wrest
control of the estate from her troubled sister, Lorna (Sara Shane) and the family lawyer (Jess Barker).
By now he is a successful and famous novelist and impulsively decides to
wrest
back the woman he had deserted.
I know nothing of the director Charles Frank apart from "Uncle Silas" but the hands of a talented craftsman are clearly at the helm of this atmospheric adaptation of the Victorian Gothic melodrama about a dastardly uncle's attempt to
wrest
an inheritance from his trusting young niece.
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