Sentence examples for be repelled with from inspiring English sources

Finally, at Cold Harbor, just northeast of Richmond, Grant launched several heavy attacks, including a frontal, nearly suicidal one on June 3, only to be repelled with grievous total losses of 12,737.

Actually, similar scenarios can be repelled with a significant extra overhead.

Soldiers assaulting the upscale neighborhood where protesters had been gathered were repelled with grenades.

The Federals were repelled with staggering losses: Burnside lost 12,653 men, compared with Lee's 5,309.

A landing of troops from India was repelled with ignominy by the Germans in November 1914.

"Weekend," "internet," "football" make their regular incursions against the proud tongue of the Gauls, and are repelled, with mixed results.

The migrants were repelled with tear gas and water cannons and police used batons to drive back those trying to enter Hungary.

The UN, which has given sanctuary to 17,000 civilians in its base in Bor, said armed men had approached the camp but had been repelled with warning shots by peacekeepers.

The Taliban launched their spring offensive earlier this year with a major assault on Kunduz that also took government forces unawares and was repelled with the aid of reinforcements after days of heavy fighting.

Mahrez and Marc Albrighton launched several raids in the first half but were repelled with relative ease, although Leicester fans protested that their team should have been given a penalty, when Mahrez went down under a challenge from Jan Vertonghen in the 42nd minute.

Omar Robert Hamilton, an activist filmmaker, pointed to graphic footage from the local media collective Mosireen that appeared to show shots being fired on Sunday from inside the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, where an attack by protesters was repelled with deadly force.