Sentence examples for repulse it from inspiring English sources

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The Georgian experience, horrible as it's been for those suffering under Putin's cruel policies, has at least taught the rest of the world to recognize what aggression is and to prepare to forestall or meet and repulse it the next time it rears its ugly head.

"We thought we could initially contain any attack or repulse it within a couple of days.

The defense with 5... b5 6 Bb3 Bb7 against the Ruy Lopez, the Arkhangelsk Variation, aims to provoke a sharp attack and then repulse it with sharper tactics.

Yellow, blue and green are not colors that stimulate the mind but rather repulse it, and the sight of them can distract a student from learning.

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Both sides suffered casualties as the insurgents were repulsed, it said.

Three times, he served Israel aggressively but loyally: in the early nineteen-fifties, when he endowed the Israel Defense Forces with tenacity and spirit; in 1973, when he crossed the Suez Canal and saved Israel from a disastrous defeat; and in 2001-02, when he stood up against a barrage of Palestinian terror, repulsed it, and succeeded in restabilizing the free Israeli society.

Hopefully, when it comes together it puts two contradictory layers in the photo: you're both adoring it and not repulsed by it — but, yeah, almost repulsed by it".

This makes good intuitive sense: we both crave touch and are repulsed by it when it is unwanted, uninvited, or inappropriate.

Khartoum says it will use all legitimate means to repulse what it calls South Sudanese aggression.

The "common danger", requiring "hope" and, more pointedly, "virtue" in order to "meet [and to repulse] it", is surely as much the spectre of a dictatorial administration, emboldened by Dick Cheney's theory of the "unitary executive", and its dangerous freedom to abuse the rights of man, as it is the present economic crisis.

If you've been paying attention, this bottle of Garnacha de FUEGO should repulse you: it incorporates one of the few Spanish words Americans will know, which is a bad sign – as is the carefully crafted flame on the label.

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