1.   Mr Hikmatyar is trying to wrest control of the capital from the defence minister, Ahmad Shah Masood.

2.   Overall, it took a good many years for the primaries to wrest control from the bosses.

3.   The Democrats failed in wresting control of Congress from the Republicans.

4.   They are fighting to wrest control of the party from the old leaders.

5.   ...another catastrophic attempt to wrest control from a rival Christian militia.

6.   For the past year he has been trying to wrest control from the central government.

7.   He tried to wrest control of the company from his uncle.

8.   Mr Venables also held a news conference yesterday at which he vowed again that he would continue his fight to wrest control of the club from Mr Sugar.

9.   Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, has vowed to wrest control of the restructuring of the energy industry from the state commission.

10.   At the government radio station, the fear has meant only a skeleton staff to run things since American troops wrested control from the military.