Sentence examples for managed to beat back from inspiring English sources

Even Tagg, with his my-way-or-the-highway philosophy, has managed to beat back his occasional crankiness.

The Senate's Democratic leadership managed to beat back an extraordinarily mischievous amendment to a spending bill offered by Senator Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican.

But Republicans managed to beat back other aggressive challenges they faced, preserving most of the gains that the party made in 2010, fueled by Tea Party activists and energy.

While the combined armies of the Ming and the Koreans managed to beat back the Japanese invasion, the war devastated the peninsula.Nor did Korea fare much better against the Ming's hated rival, the Qing empire of Manchuria.

Ten days ago the polls were predicting an SNP rout; Brown, who threw himself into the Scottish campaign, somehow managed to beat back that nationalist tide to a virtual dead heat.

The Democrats' most impressive saves were in Utah, where Representative Jim Matheson managed to beat back a well-financed and high profile challenger in Mia Love by fewer than 3,000 votes, remaining that state delegation's only Democrat, and in Georgia, where Representative John Barrow, the last white Democrat in the Deep South, prevailed.

If they manage to beat back Assad's air force, and I believe that they now have the means to do this, then this scenario is very possible.

Here, antiretrovirals came in right away and the epidemic flirted with crossing into the general population, but we managed to beat it back, and the fear of AIDS has kind of receded.

Over eight years he managed to beat the rebels back into the impenetrable southern jungles or up into the Andes.

Then a week later I discover that someone else has managed to beat this dead horse back to life again.

"We needed a left back in the squad, and we managed to beat a number of clubs to his signature".