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Repulsed

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Past of repulse

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But LifeNews, a Russian website known for its access to the Kremlin's security services, reported on Sunday that Kiev's forces were shelling airport building and said rebels had repulsed four "mass attacks" by Ukrainian foot soldiers and 15 tanks in the morning.

These Shakespearean lines are from The Tempest, and a tempest was what Sutton's brave amateurs from the GM Vauxhall Conference had to endure once their brief, enthusiastic opening flurry had been repulsed on a damp, raw Norfolk afternoon.

Then there's the DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr, who declared that he was "pretty repulsed by gay and lesbianism.

Even so, suicide campaigns are often designed to madden their victims into inflicting collective punishment, thus further radicalising the terrorists' actual or potential supporters, who might otherwise be repulsed by the carnage that such extreme violence causes.But there are subtler methods.

The South African army invaded to stop this happening, and came within a few miles of taking the capital, but was repulsed at the last moment by a few planeloads of Cubans.It might seem odd that so poor a nation as Cuba could project power so far.

He liked Washington for its spring blossom, and for its debate, but as a congregationalist and abolitionist, he was repulsed by its slave markets.

WHAT is more taboo than a woman who is repulsed by her own child?

Americans are repulsed by Europeans' crooked, cream-coloured teeth and Europeans find phosphorescent, fake-looking American smiles equally off-putting.Cleanliness symbolises purity.

See articleForces loyal to Chad's president, Idriss Déby, repulsed an attack by rebels on the country's capital, Ndjamena.

The army repulsed the attack with the help of helicopter gunships and warplanes.

Mr Assad's surprise attack on Israel in 1973 was initially successful; and although repulsed when Israel rallied, it helped to offset his failure as defence minister in 1967, when Syria lost its strategic borderlands known as the Golan Heights.Nonetheless, opposition to Mr Assad's autocratic rule grew, and so did his repressive habits.

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