To repulse an attack, five infantry battalions were positioned at the main ports and airbases, such as The Hague airfield of Ypenburg and the Rotterdam airfield of Waalhaven.
And most things, by all accounts, seemed to repulse him anyway".
Although woefully outnumbered, the Union infantry managed to repulse several assaults, nearly foiling Magruder's plans.
At home she's trying so hard to get pregnant that she's starting to repulse her husband.
When the gruesome reality of what human sacrifice entailed is revealed, these finely crafted objects have the power to repulse.
McBride takes up these same irreverent tools and likewise innovates, though he comes not to repulse but to exalt.
Today, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned his 70 million people to be ready to repulse attack.
His vice-president, Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, this week called for a "general mobilisation across the country" to repulse southern "aggression".
The Panzers remain idle and more than half a million German soldiers wait in the Calais area to repulse what Hitler believes will be the real invasion.
No wonder "and to repulse" was left out: Obama, a cautious politician and sensitive to the nuances of words, stopped short of calling the Bush administration repellent.
Also, inserting tubes into my arm-port was embarrassing and I tried to do it privately, so as not to repulse my family.
