Sentence examples for which repelled from inspiring English sources

They reinforced crude racial categorizations, which repelled many Americans.

That was done by lowering the wafer slowly on to a magnet which repelled the cilia, leaving them permanently upright.

PATH TO WAR Resolution 678 The resolution adopted on 29 November 1990 authorised the 1991 Gulf War, which repelled the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.

Massive brick walls erected around the upper town gave it the nickname "Red Town," for the colour of the walls, which repelled several Turkish attacks in the 15th and 16th centuries.

In a mostly sympathetic review of the film, Pauline Kael got at that quality when she wrote about how the role was tricky for Ms. Streisand because it showed the world "that element in her own persona which repelled some people initially: her fast sass is defensive and aggressive in the same breath".

Fuller's Miranda, she writes, "was fortunate in a total absence of those charms which might have drawn to her bewildering flatteries, and in a strong electric nature, which repelled those who did not belong to her, and attracted those who did".

The flowers contain terpene oils, which repel mammals that might feed on them.

The smelter alone distributed 6,141 bed nets — the newest of which repel mosquitoes for five years.

We should be hard-headed in addressing it, and should subject the technologies which attract us to as much scrutiny and rigour as the technologies which repel us.

The selectivity filter is a constriction of the channel ringed by negatively charged carbonyl oxygens, which repel anions but attract cations.

Glass is manually sorted by colour, and aluminum cans are separated from plastics by an eddy-current separator, which repels the aluminum from the conveyor belt.