Sentence examples for rebuff an attack from inspiring English sources

The Interfax news agency quoted a spokesman for Russia's Western Military District, Colonel Oleg Kochetkov, as saying that Russian forces stationed in Transdniestria had "conducted an anti-terrorism drill and practiced operations to rebuff an attack on their military base".

On September 6, 1608, the city rebuffed a naval attack by the Order of Saint Stephen from the Republic of Venice.

France, which helped Mr Deby rebuff a rebel attempt to grab power in April, warned that the capital could be attacked "within 24 hours".

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In Zawiyah, a city with important oil resources just 30 miles from the capital, residents said they rebuffed a series of attacks on Monday, suffering no casualties but killing about 10 soldiers and capturing about a dozen others.

Shire said it had rebuffed a £27bn approach from Chicago-based AbbVie.

Not to rebuff that attack decisively would cast a shadow of illegitimacy over much of the indispensable and wholly lawful work of this court and of state and federal courts throughout the nation.... Section 5 Is Not a Mandate As its plain language reveals, 3 U.S.C.

The bloody, four-day hostage siege at the In Amenas facility in eastern Algeria prompted at least one worker who escaped to question whether more could have been done to rebuff the attack.

Last month Mr Saleh met Robert Mueller, head of America's FBI, and is said to have rebuffed an appeal to hand over al-Qaeda members accused of involvement in an attack in 2000 on an American warship, the USS Cole, that killed 17 American sailors.

Late last summer, Nkunda rebuffed a series of government attacks and went on the offensive, sweeping down from his stronghold in the highlands, routing the national Army with ease, and seizing new territory.

The NSA has a mandate to deter and rebuff cyber attacks against US computer systems but Snowden's "insider attack" was relatively unsophisticated and should have been detected, investigators said, especially since it came three years after Chelsea Manning used a similar technique to access State Department and military data which was then passed to Wikileaks.