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The Wall Street Journal runs an AP dispatch stating that the Chechens have "repulsed" Russian forces.
Watching that movie, I found myself simultaneously attracted to and repulsed by the characters in ways that left me confused (and also impressed).
In 1588, Philip II prepared to invade England, only to be repulsed when the English navy destroyed Spain’s previously invincible Armada.
The British invaded Nepal from India in 1814 but were repulsed by the king’s soldiers from Gorkha — thus earning all subsequent Nepali fighting men the name “Gurkhas” (see page 61).
Kennedy being elevated, for better or for worse, to the role of standard-bearer for a generation repulsed by America's imperial presumptions, the antagonists became symbols for opposing forces larger than either man could discern.