Sentence examples for had been repelled from inspiring English sources

Australia had been repelled in the first Test and themselves humbled in the second.

Local media later reported that the Isis attack had been repelled.

She had been repelled by other churches she had attended, she said, after encountering what seemed to her to be money-hungry pastors.

Early on Saturday morning Erdoğan's plane landed in Istanbul, with the president clearly determined to assert that the coup had been repelled and he remained in charge.

There are now clear signs of a rapid deterioration in Afghanistan, only five months after a previous Taliban onslaught on Kunduz had been repelled.

Nonetheless, about fifteen minutes after the attack had been repelled, a missile launched from a coalition jet obliterated the house, killing everyone inside except a sole survivor.

Two bids have been repelled.

It could have been repelled firmly, but without the loss of multiple lives.

"In 1991 girls would have been repelled; now they're throwing themselves at him".

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

Such a partial move should hardly satisfy former donors who have been repelled by the Scouts' discriminatory ways.