Word: repell
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...when he was colonel of a cavalry regiment, and about to lead his men to repel the British, he stopped long enough to arrest the leaders of a Tory conspiracy and, as justice of the peace, to sentence them to jail...
...Premier Edouard Daladier, outraged by Germany's reaction to the French protest last week, gave correspondents to understand that France will back Austria to the limit, supporting if necessary a shorter enlistment period which would give the Austrian Army a more rapid turnover, provide more trained Austrians to repel Nazis...
...earth's features were formed, he should appreciate and enjoy Professor Mather's course. Of course, as in all elementary sciences the new and unfamiliar technique to be mastered and the arbitrary manner of setting forth principles and facts to be memorized is apt to repel the would be scientist. In spite of the popular conceptions of geologists in boy scout uniforms, hammering at rocks or partly fossilized among their dried bones and museum specimens, this is one of the most stimulating of the sciences. It teaches one to think in terms of great stretches of space and time...
...Berkeley, and eminently practical. About ten years ago he became interested in curing iron deficiency in fruit trees by injecting certain liquids into the trunks. His technic has saved many a tree. Later he showed lumbermen how to poison trees destined for marine construction or telephone poles. The poisons repel molds, fungi, borers and other wood-destroying agents...
...after college life, large numbers of students are excusably irreligious. No college course, let alone one which would presumably contain at least eight hundred men each year, could act for the individual as his own experiences would, and so supply him with real religious convictions. Such a course would repel or make hypocrites of those whom it would be intended to help...