Sentence examples for failed to repulse from inspiring English sources
After ponderous apologies for traditional faith failed to repulse the onslaught of deism and atheism, traditionalists of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as Burke and Coleridge, abandoned unwieldy dogmatic demonstrations in favour of the short, provocative essay.
He failed to plan for new sorts of war of the high-tech or guerrilla varieties and instead ran impressive exercises designed to repulse massive invasions from east and west.It was during just such an exercise last month, in Russia's remote Far East, that a band of rebels sneaked past the heavy troop presence in Chechnya to attack several targets in neighbouring Ingushetia.
Led by John March, 1,600 men failed to take the fort by siege; a follow-up expedition in August was also repulsed.
They have, however, been handed over to the provisional government – the interim council – which has failed to pass them on to Misrata, which has been under a brutal siege for the past seven weeks and where revolutionaries have resolutely repulsed repeated attacks by regime forces.
Estonia failed to qualify.
Girls failed to materialize.
The defence system successfully repulsed a Viking attack at the mouth of the Seine in 820 (after Charlemagne's death), but failed to hold against renewed attacks of Danish Vikings in Frisia and Dorestad in 834.
So it's clear that, at the very least, many men fail to be adequately repulsed by his actions.
