Sentence examples for failed to repel from inspiring English sources

When that failed to repel the odors, members of Parliament simply abandoned the place.

If McClellan failed to repel Lee's invasion, the administration might be repudiated by voters in the coming mid-term elections.

At nearly half of the plants tested, though, guards failed to repel the assailants before they had destroyed at least one so-called "target set".

But maybe, just maybe, they won't, for they represent real forces and articulate real passions that Labour and the Conservatives, and now the Lib Dems, have so far utterly failed to repel.

And the agency has decided not to take enforcement action against weak security at nuclear plants: guards at half the nation's nuclear power plants have failed to repel mock attackers in N.R.C.-supervised exercises that test the protection of reactor safety systems against sabotage.

Voivode Nicholas Csáki failed to repel an Ottoman invasion of Transylvania in 1420.

Pcdhg-deficient SACs exhibit a dramatic loss of self-avoidance but maintain overlap with neighboring SACs, as if they mistake their own dendrites for those of their neighbors and fail to repel them.

These data suggest that dia 5 mutant hemocytes fail to actively repel each other.

Marred by an uninteresting trailer that misleadingly sold the movie as a generic creature-feature, the film failed to attract moviegoers and repelled the few that bothered to show up (the picture earned a 'D' from Cinema Score).

Kris Commons, however, failed to convert the ensuing penalty, Enckelman diving to his right to repel the effort.

The group has tried and failed to take oil fields in the region, having been repelled by local fighters.