Sentence examples for beat back by from inspiring English sources

Oh, and she became the most visible state legislator in the country last night after surviving a redistricting challenge in 2011 that was only beat back by her use of a suit under the Voting Rights Act.

In recent days, the government has hardened its stance after an attempt by protesters last week to besiege the government headquarters was quickly beat back by police in riot gear.

In 2009, when FDA tried to declare it an adulterant (which allows the agency to take action to remove it from the market), they were beat back by the shellfish industry, who intensively lobbied their elected officials to ban FDA's action.

Beat, backed by auto giant Daimler, plans to dominate the ride-hail market in every major Latin American city within three years.

It hasn't aged a day — the producer teases the pop singer's voice into a sensuous beat backed by sizzling synth lines and a vivacious drum pad groove.

He beat back attempts by the last two governors to use the fund to balance the budget.

In a series of votes, mostly along party lines, Republicans beat back efforts by Democrats to alter the bill.

This is a problem that was well known during the mortgage mania when the comptroller's office beat back efforts by state authorities to curtail predatory lending.

Public school teachers across America have learned this year that they can beat back attacks by Republicans and center-left Democrats through withholding their labor.

Because of its role as chair, Britain, usually America's closest ally on internet issues, had to stay neutral and could not beat back calls by Denmark, France, Spain and the Netherlands for greater government influence over the internet.

Officials of a police union that called for a strike on Tuesday charged that Mr. Morsi and his Islamist allies had used the police as tools to beat back demonstrations by his political opponents.