Sentence examples for repulsing from inspiring English sources

There, however, Rommel was at last, albeit meagrely, reinforced; and, after repulsing a British attack on December 26, he prepared a counteroffensive.

In 1190 the Almohad caliph Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb forced an armistice on the Christian kings of Castile and Leon, after repulsing their attacks on Muslim possessions in Spain.

Ḥajj Ḥusayn Pasha, who succeeded his father in 1730, became the central figure of the dynasty by successfully repulsing a siege of the city by the Iranian conqueror Nāder Shāh in 1743.

He kept Āghā Muḥammad Khan Qājār a hostage at his court in Shīrāz, after repulsing Muḥammad Ḥasan Qājār's bids for extended dominion.

Denmark fared better at sea, maintaining a successful blockade of German Baltic ports and repulsing a small Austro-Prussian flotilla at Helgoland on May 9, but those small triumphs amounted to little in the broader context of the war.

C. 841 BCE Ben-hadad I, Assyrian Adad-idri (died c. 841 bc) king of Damascus who led a coalition against the invading forces of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, repulsing them at Karkar in 853.

But LifeNews, a Russian website known for its access to the Kremlin's security services, reported on Sunday that Kiev's forces were shelling airport building and said rebels had repulsed four "mass attacks" by Ukrainian foot soldiers and 15 tanks in the morning.

These Shakespearean lines are from The Tempest, and a tempest was what Sutton's brave amateurs from the GM Vauxhall Conference had to endure once their brief, enthusiastic opening flurry had been repulsed on a damp, raw Norfolk afternoon.

Then there's the DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr, who declared that he was "pretty repulsed by gay and lesbianism.

Even so, suicide campaigns are often designed to madden their victims into inflicting collective punishment, thus further radicalising the terrorists' actual or potential supporters, who might otherwise be repulsed by the carnage that such extreme violence causes.But there are subtler methods.

The South African army invaded to stop this happening, and came within a few miles of taking the capital, but was repulsed at the last moment by a few planeloads of Cubans.It might seem odd that so poor a nation as Cuba could project power so far.