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Evolution has programmed us to be positively interested in plants and animals, our food, and to be repelled by slimes and oozes, teeming with potentially harmful microbes.
Beyond the theology lies the simple human fact that most Muslims, like most other human beings, are repelled by mass murder and barbarism whatever their justification.
Boleslaw later repelled invasions from Otto’s successor and then sought Poland’s own expansion eastward; he eventually annexed parts of present-day Ukraine.
America repelled every effort to knock him off the pantheon.
In fact, after China's 1996 threats, "most experts believed that Taiwan could have repelled a cross-straits invasion even without the U.S.