"After all, a fortress was designed to repel people, not attract them".
The country's air defense, which was designed to repel Israeli attacks, is one of the densest in the world, replete with radar and surface-to-air missiles.
The Yugoslav People's Army was designed to repel invasion, and, as part of its strategy, it used the geographically central republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a storehouse for armaments and as the site of most military production.
Loo Chan, whose father was a geomancer, says that a good building must be designed to repel & confound evil spirits.
The light fabric is designed to repel odor-causing bacteria and is made with merino wool from free-range New Zealand sheep.
Could a supertall building be designed to repel a direct strike by a large, fuel-laden jetliner flying at high speed and remain unscathed?
Last weekend, for instance, while the U.F.C. put on one of the most entertaining mixed-martial-arts cards of all time, boxing fans were stuck with matchups that seemed to have been designed to repel intrepid viewers.
Though it is now married to a proposal requiring shareholder approval of similar corporate expenditures, it is designed to repel Democrats from the coalition supporting reform in the Senate.
These so-called Bt crops are designed to repel insects that try to eat them.
The program was designed to minimize losses to taxpayers.
