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исторга́ть обеща́ние у кого́-л

wrest a promise from sb

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When the loyalist reinforcements rolled into the capital aboard tanks and armored vehicles and began to wrest the initiative, the rebels began to break. en.wikipedia.org

After her death, the family attempted to wrest control of the estate from the school. en.wikipedia.org

Protesters launched a pre-emptive strike on the building, in order to wrest control of the position. en.wikipedia.org

The two men try to fight it out, but end up futilely wresting on the floor. en.wikipedia.org

In the beginning the popes were able repeatedly to wrest from their hands all that they had gained. en.wikipedia.org

The war was thus an effort to wrest these social, economic and political advantages back. en.wikipedia.org

While neutral territories are conquered by simply entering them, enemy territories must be wrested from the other player by defeating them in a skirmish. en.wikipedia.org

It was in union, he reminded his audience, that we wrested our liberties from the grasp of oppression. en.wikipedia.org

How these gems were wrested from the stellar dragons remains unsaid. en.wikipedia.org

But circumstances now allowed him to wrest free from political control. en.wikipedia.org

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