Sentence examples for being driven back by from inspiring English sources

The Pakistan Taliban are being driven back by army offensives.

AQIM and its allies held vast tracts of Mali in 2013, before being driven back by French soldiers.

For a few days recently, it cut the last government-held road into Aleppo before being driven back by the Syrian army supported by Russian air strikes.

The officers got only a few feet into the house before before being driven back by the intense heat and smoke, the police said.

In this print, not included in the British Museum's collection, a skeleton representing death is entering through a cottage window and being driven back by the doctor's syringe (an enima?).

On Friday, al-Qaida militants killed 20 soldiers during a brief occupation of al-Houta, the capital of Lahj province, which is only 20 miles from Aden, before being driven back by the army.

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.

Crews brought in to cut down trees along the road were driven back by the heat.