Sentence examples for repel attack from inspiring English sources

For now, the soldiers of Apache Troop absorb and repel attack after attack.

The defeat, the first shock wave of the competition, required Switzerland to repel attack after attack and to accept the uncomfortable truth that the Spaniards would control the ball with their passing and trapping prowess for most of the game.

The tests show that it is possible to harden a PC to repel attack.

Thus the Spanish conqueror Cortez, when landing in Mexico with a small force who had good reason to fear their capacity to repel attack from the far more numerous Aztecs, removed the risk that his troops might think their way into a retreat by burning the ships on which they had landed.

The maneuvers themselves had demonstrated the Bundeswehr's incapacity to repel attack, and the article exposed the sorry state of Bundeswehr preparedness.

According to archaeologist Leslie Alcock, warfare was perhaps the "principal social activity in Early Historic northern Britain", playing a major part in "contemporary prose and poetry", and for this reason hill forts of this period have been commonly thought of as defensive structures designed to repel attack.

He came roaring in with the 2nd Platoon and set up a perimeter to repel attacks.

And the Pentagon and military contractors regularly repel attacks on their computer networks — many coming from China and Russia.

Protesters used rocks and molotov cocktails to repel attacks by armed riot police and built barricades to defend Tahrir.

"In 1964, Congress gave President Lyndon Johnson the power to 'take all necessary measures' to repel attacks and prevent further aggression.

The role of the police forces has been mainly to repel attacks and avoid confrontation, with unprecedented levels of tolerance.