Sentence examples for be driven back by from inspiring English sources

North Vietnamese would pop out of bunkers, only to be driven back by machine-gun fire.

A year before he had got within a whisker of the summit, only to be driven back by exhaustion and bad weather.

This story requires a thousand and eighty-five pages to get told, or roughly the number of pages it took for Napoleon to invade Russia and be driven back by General Kutuzov.

On the other hand, those that believe the Ukip tide can only be driven back by anti-immigration bashing are themselves stubbornly arguing with reality – and should listen carefully to the likes of Lakoff.

The initial money, Mr. Bush said in a statement, would be used to feed and shelter tens of thousands of Georgians displaced during the fighting that began on the night of Aug. 7 when Georgia tried to establish control over a breakaway region, South Ossetia, only to be driven back by Russian forces.

Neighbors who raised the alarm and rushed out into the garish firelight told of police officers and volunteer firefighters who crawled into the burning home through doors and first- and second-story windows in desperate efforts to find the victims, only to be driven back by leaping flames and blinding smoke.

The Pakistan Taliban are being driven back by army offensives.

But they were driven back by blinding smoke.

(Subsequently she was driven back by the Thai authorities into Cambodia, & almost certain death).

Several neighbors tried to enter the home but were driven back by intense flames and heat.

The sultan's forces intervened but were driven back by the southerners and their Makian allies.