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This attack was repulsed for the loss of two Australians killed and two wounded.

The Austro-Russian cavalry was finally broken and repulsed for good.

With the Allies repulsed for a second time the exultant Bavarian grenadiers, with bayonets fixed, poured over their breastworks to pursue the attackers and drive them to defeat.

Everyman is an apt characterization, for it explains better than any Greg Packer technique the ubiquity of the man's quotations: A wannabe man on the street more polished would repulse reporters, for we are wary of sharply dressed media hounds and smooth talking pr men, characters we're forced to quote all too often.

But Lawson the novelist must find a way to hold his readers' interest, even if they are repulsed by, for example, Max and Jonny's ironic bellowing of Pulp's "Common People" (their party piece), or snide Simon's sexual rejection of Tash in favour of internet porn, or the low-level but insistent racism they all display in the company of Monifa, the black wife of a local venture capitalist.

The encounter resulted in the partial repulse of the German advance and the ruin of German hopes for a swift victory on the Western Front.

The repulse of the invading Moors by Charles Martel in 732 opened up the country for the Frankish occupation, which was completed by 768.

According to Fig. 6, the best result in this pH range is at pH 5. The possible reason for this result is the anionic structure of CR dye which causes repulse of adsorbent at higher pH values.

The deadlock broken, all Belgium then had to do to reach a quarter-final with Argentina was repulse the USA for the remaining 20-odd minutes, a task Lukaku managed to make easier with the second goal of the night, accepting De Bruyne's invitation to run on to a diagonal pass and smashing the ball past Howard.

Similar thorough rebuildings planned for Repulse and Hood were cancelled due to the advent of World War II.

During the following week the DNC's department examined the material delivered for the two battleships and decided what could be used in the new design and the contract for Repulse was transferred from Palmers to John Brown & Company because the former lacked a slipway long enough to use for the new ship.