Sentence examples for repulse attacks from inspiring English sources

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The police fired tear gas to repulse attacks in Khartoum, where about 5,000 demonstrators had massed, news reports said, before they moved on to the United States Embassy on the outskirts of the capital.

"Their slogan is one: 'Destroy Islam and its people,'" Muhajer intoned before urging the group's soldiers in Iraq and Syria to repulse attacks on Tall Afar, Iraq, and the Syrian cities of Raqqa and Al Bab.

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Today, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned his 70 million people to be ready to repulse attack.

Syria's state-run media, which have portrayed the Aleppo fighting by insurgents as a futile effort by criminal gangs, inadvertently confirmed the insurgent advance, reporting that government troops deployed around the airport had repulsed attacks.

Sonni ʿAlī spent most of his reign in the field repulsing attacks on his empire, these coming especially from the Mossi, the Fulani of the Dendi region, and the Tuareg.

Under Alexander Nevsky, prince of Vladimir, Novgorod's defenders repulsed attacks by the Swedes on the Neva River in 1240 and by the Teutonic Knights on the ice of Lake Peipus in 1242.

She continued to resist stubbornly; Blücher repulsed attacks by the four cruisers of the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron and four destroyers.

Horse artillery usually came under the command of cavalry divisions, but in some battles, such as Waterloo, the horse artillery were used as a rapid response force, repulsing attacks and assisting the infantry.

The Federal artillery, however, was the story of the day, repulsing attack after attack.

Lieutenant-Colonel Davidson personally rallied his battalion, seeking to regain momemtum, but was wounded during the repulsed attack.

The fighting had begun early Monday, and Afghan soldiers were called in to help repulse the attacks, he added.

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