arracher

Déjà, au début de mars, au moment de la campagne pour la journée de huit heures, les ouvriers avaient arraché une concession au capital, bien qu'ils fussent sous la pesée des mencheviks et des socialistes-révolutionnaires.
Already in the beginning of March, during the campaign for the eight-hour day, the workers wrested this concession from capital in spite of the efforts of Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries to hold them back.
Les témoins présents ont dit que les attaquants avaient arraché le foetus du ventre d'une mère et avaient électrocuté toute une famille en inondant sa maison.
Eyewitnesses had stated that assailants had ripped the foetus from the stomach of a woman and electrocuted an entire family after flooding their house.
Des vandales avaient arraché les tuyaux en cuivre pour les vendre.
Vandals had ripped out the copper pipes to sell.
Les Communistes avaient arraché au Pape Jean XXIII la promesse que lui et ses successeurs ne dénonceraient pas les erreurs du Communisme.
The Communists extracted the promise from Pope John XXIII and his successors, to not denounce the errors of Communism.
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