Sentence examples for by revulsion from inspiring English sources

He's fascinated by revulsion — his own and other people's.

If the bottom of a bear market is capitulation ('sell everything') followed by revulsion ('never touch another share certificate'), surely we cannot be far from the bottom.

The rescue offered Kosovo was late and hedged; it was triggered by revulsion against the Serbs, but the troops came in subdued and wary of the Albanians.

He would then try to win a majority on the back of a wave of anti-Kurdish and anti-terrorist nationalism, fuelled by revulsion against attacks by the PKK and Isis.

The defense lawyers presented a series of misfortunes that they said Mr. Komisarjevsky had suffered in his life as they worked to change perceptions of him that had been forged by revulsion at the killing of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11.

Only 27% of this group believe that the deeply religious senator from Illinois shares their values a figure shaped partly by revulsion for his preacher, Jeremiah Wright, partly by the mistaken belief that Mr Obama is a Muslim, but mostly by his uncompromising support of abortion choice.Mr McCain's biggest problem among evangelicals has been one of intensity rather than broad preference.

Mr Crocker added that Muqtada al-Sadr, perhaps the most powerful anti-American Iraqi Shia leader, has now told his men to stop attacking Iraqis or Americans, prompted perhaps by widespread revulsion at attacks by his militia, the Mahdi Army, on fellow-Shia worshippers in the holy city of Karbala.The most striking parts of the general's testimony were his recommendations for what to do next.

Even the individual stories are not always clearly plotted: I was never sure whether a Danish soldier's self-willed slaughter was dictated by his revulsion at the war, or his victimisation by a sadistic superior.

The move was implemented by the party's chief whip, Nick Brown, and fuelled by backbench revulsion at claims that the trio had been using their ministerial experience to seek profitable lobbying consultancies.

As for the reversal on the Middle East, the national security team says there was none, just an opportunity that Mr. Bush alertly leaped on, created by the revulsion over the escalation of violence and the hope created by Saudi Arabia's declaration that peace could lead to normalization of Israel's relations with its neighbors.

And his treatment of each is falsified by this revulsion.