The attack was repulsed after a two hour battle.

Leech and his crew are sailing into Maracaibo... expecting to find a few cannon and an old stone wall.

Now, the tight rows up at the very top, they really hold out the wind and dust.

They are eventually able to hold off the invading Prussian army.

During this siege, the ingenuity of Archimedes' machines defeated all Roman attacks.

After being repulsed, the Congo occupied the province in September 1961.

I'll not be the scapegoat for your failure to stop the Vikings!

Among the most important have been the rebuttal of the aggression against Kuwait and the restoration of democracy in Cambodia.

Essentially, the Chinese are able to push back the Americans and the South Koreans all the way back, so that they are able to re capture Seoul.

To stem the flow of foreign fighters, priority has been placed on securing the Iraqi Syrian border.

So one question the researchers asked themselves is, could you block this thing, right?

Habsade played a central role on behalf of the opposition in blocking initial TFG moves to relocate there.

The small group of soldiers and policemen were unable to stop the rioters and retreated.

And so by storming the Bastille and getting the weapons, they all of a sudden could essentially fend off any type of threat that the troops would have.

Cambodian authorities can help build their credibility by curbing the temptation to pad bills and inflate salaries.

But there are fears over their ability to take on the recalcitrant Taliban once foreign troops leave the country completely.

Using his acrobatic play, he can return almost any ball, even those that seem out of human reach.

As the film clearly shows, however, the war on drugs became a war on the poor, especially on poor minority groups.

Western leaders repeatedly declare that no option is off the table to stem Iran s nuclear ambitions.

A British landing was thrown back on 4 November 1914 in the Battle of Tanga, and the town was not taken until 7 July 1916.

Political settlement of conflicts must be based on the determination of the world community to use military force effectively in order to stop the aggression.

The world needs to start acting soon very soon if it is to head off the major threats.

Duke Odo the Great defeated a major invading force at Toulouse in 721 but failed to repel a raiding party in 732.

The forces of the Russian border troops and units of the 201st Russian Infantry Division, supported by the government armed forces of Tajikistan, managed to repel the attack decisively.

The stratum corneum's function is to reduce water loss, repel water, protect deeper layers of the skin from injury, and to repel microbial invasion of the skin.

The US certainly has a right to curb terrorists like those who staged the attack on September 11, 2001.

On repulsing the attack and bringing the situation under control, the military arrested five of the assailants and led them subsequently to the place where the two officials were being held captive.

UNIFIL continued to oppose attempts by armed elements to enter or operate within its area of deployment.

Rather than try to repel the advance of the machine, which is all that the Luddites could imagine, we should prepare for a future of more leisure, which automation makes possible.

After repelling Ottoman attacks for over 70 years, Belgrade finally fell in 1521, opening the way for Ottoman expansion into Central Europe.

The self defence Army of the Republic of Nagorny Karabagh, exercising its right to self defence, was able to stop the offensive and force the enemy to retreat.

Thus, Obama must focus as much on pushing back against domestic hardliners as on taking a hard line with Iranian negotiators.

The United States, as a major Middle East power, and Europe also have an interest in stemming the tide of nuclear proliferation that now threatens the Middle East.

But the ECB is not going to cut rates even though, for public relations reasons of keeping the political wolves at bay, it deceptively hints it might.

Italy invaded Greece by way of Albania on 28 October 1940, but Greek troops repelled the invaders after a bitter struggle (see Greco Italian War).

In most if not all non Western civilizations, pride and self love exclude self criticism or at least the criticism of one s civilization as such.

Military approaches alone will not work, because the root of the problem is the vulnerability of poor, hungry people to the prophets of hate.

Born in England, where he spent his childhood, he lived for most of his adult life before becoming king in his Duchy of Aquitaine in the southwest of France.

Two years later, after de Gaulle s steeliness repulsed a second uprising, the Evian peace agreements between France and the FLN brought Algeria s independence.

But the European Central Bank, notably by ECB board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, has elegantly spelled out the case against debt reduction a case that is politically significant and deeply moral.

I am going to win, I am going to win, I am going to win

In 941, they appeared on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus, but this time they were crushed, an indication of the improvements in the Byzantine military position after 907, when only diplomacy had been able to push back the invaders.

Unfortunately, the perception was conveyed during these meetings in some press reports that the roll back of the Bosnian Serbs was no longer a priority issue on the international agenda.

I'm going to fail, I'm going to fail.

I'm not going to die alone. I'm not going to die alone!