Sentence examples for was being repulsed from inspiring English sources

As the Bulgarian attack was being repulsed, Romanian troops began an uncontested march toward Sofia from the north, and Turkey reoccupied the fortress of Adrianople.

With the official "rate cards" for advertising in many magazines being treated with scorn by advertisers, it is not surprising that protestations about editorial independence are greeted with equal disbelief.Indeed, even while Chrysler was being repulsed in the magazine world, a marketing man seemed to be driving a bulldozer through the Chinese wall in newspapers.

And the thing about being repulsed by him was, I felt my body was a room that I didn't want to mess up.

At first, it doesn't seem there's much wrong with Gramma: we wonder if it's just youth being repulsed by age, if she's just a sad old lady, "a fat slug wearing rubber pants and diapers under her flannel nightgown, her face runneled with cracks and wrinkles, her eyes empty and blind – faded blue irises floating atop yellowed corneas".

Since everything is perfect, being repulsed by anything or forbidding any behavior as taboo is tantamount to rejecting the gods.

And real listening -- done without judgment, without needing to "save," without being repulsed -- is no small feat.

Still, Mouritsen suspects that being repulsed by jello salad is more learned than evolutionary behavior.

It is easy to be repulsed by the auctioning of a human organ.

Are they Germans who are advancing and have been repulsed, or Russians who attack?

All Brown would say was he was "repulsed" and "angered" by the jubilant celebrations which greeted Megrahi's return to Tripoli on 20 August.

It was here the Prussians were repulsed in 1792 by the French at Valmy and where U.S. forces swept over the Germans (Meuse-Argonne Offensive) in 1918.