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   Leviathan (band)

   Regarding his writing, Wrest says that "...lyrics are important and also very hard for me... at times, the way things come out in words sounds like nonsense.
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   A Few Words on Non-Intervention

   But the evil is, that if they have not sufficient love of liberty to be able to wrest it from merely domestic oppressors, the liberty which is bestowed on them by other hands than their own, will have nothing real, nothing permanent. ... John Stuart Mill (1859) A Few Words on Non-Intervention at the Online Library of Liberty
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   Ten Commandments

   Forbids all unchaste thoughts, words, and actions. ... Forbids discontent or envy, prohibits any grief over the betterment of our neighbor's estate, and all inordinate desires to obtain for ourselves, or scheming to wrest for our benefit, anything that is his.
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   List of English words of Persian origin

   Many words of Persian origin have made their way into the English language through different, often circuitous, routes. ... Brahmanical text Harivamsa and numerous Puranas also attest that the Kambojas, Yavanas, Sakas, Pahlavas etc were originally high-class Kshatriyas, but it was Vedic king Sagara, the ruler of Kosala, who had forbidden these invaders from performing "Svadhyayas" and "Vasatkaras" (Vedic rituals) and thereby, divested them off their noble Kshatriya status, because these Kshatriyas had wrested Kosala kingdom from his father, king Bahu. Harivamsa rather, describes these Kshatriya invaders as Kshatriya pungavas i, e foremost among the Kshatriyas.
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   Silsoe

   The village name is derived from the Danish word ‘hoh’, in "Sifels hoh", meaning "Sifel’s hill". ... ↑ "Wrest Park at the English Heritage website".
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   Bartolomeo Cristofori

   Our own word for the piano, however, is the result of a gradual truncation over time of the words shown in boldface above. ... Thus, the tuning hammer is used on the top side of the wrest plank, but the strings are wrapped around the pins on the bottom side.
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   Glossary of terms in Hinduism

   Mahāvishnu (महाविष्‍णु): Lord of the Universe who took human birth in order to wrest his kingdom from Emperor Bali for the salvation of the world. ... Mantra (मंत्र): An incantation with words of power.
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   Sauron

   Sauron "finally induces Arpharazôn, frightened by the approach of old age, to make the greatest of all armadas, and go up with war against the Blessed Realm itself, and wrest it and its 'immortality' into his own hands". ... In other words, Sauron was introspective.
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   Treaty of Old Crossing

   In the aftermath of the Uprising, United States troops and Minnesota militia chased the Dakota out of the Red River Valley for good and the fur traders and steamship operators renewed efforts to have the politicians wrest the territory from the Ojibwe. ... In the words of Governor Ramsey,
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    Berenice Abbott

    Like Mumford, Abbott was hopeful that, through urban planning efforts (aided by her photographs), Americans would be able to wrest control their cities from paleotechnic forces, and bring about what Mumford described as a more humane and human-scaled, "neotechnic era." ... McCausland was an ardent supporter of Abbott, writing several articles for the Springfield Daily Republican, as well as for Trend and New Masses (the latter under the pseudonym Elizabeth Noble).

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Leviathan (band),
• A Few Words on Non-Intervention,
• Ten Commandments,
• List of English words of Persian origin,
• Silsoe,
• Bartolomeo Cristofori,
• Glossary of terms in Hinduism,
• Sauron,
• Treaty of Old Crossing,
• Berenice Abbott