Sentence examples for repel assault from inspiring English sources

To manage it, Switzerland had to repel assault after assault and accept the uncomfortable truth that the Spaniards would control the ball for most of the game with their passing and trapping prowess.

On Monday night, tanks took up positions around the town as helicopters buzzed overhead, and local Palestinian leaders used a mosque's loudspeakers to urge residents to prepare to repel an assault.

Their troops helped repel an assault on Freetown by Mr. Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front, known as the R.U.F., when it became clear that the United Nations force was unable to do that by itself.

Surprisingly, the few surviving Spanish managed to repel the assault.

To repel sexual assaults, she also has inserted a potato in her vagina, the discovery of which by a doctor causes less shock than you might expect, on screen at least.

Several peshmerga soldiers died repelling the assault.

The Americans are still successfully repelling the assault".

The Americans pressed the attack in the third period, but Canada repelled each assault.

After the Americans repelled the assault and five others, the Chinese added another battalion.

State television also reported that regime forces had repelled an assault in the town.

The Gbagbo loyalists repelled an assault by Ouattara's fighters on Wednesday.