repel

Amid all of this, Scotland put in some almighty defensive sets, repelling the All Blacks with a demonic intent.

Cheney’s efforts to station U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, considered critical to the push to repel Iraq, would have unforeseen ramifications.

The Constitution gives Congress the power “to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel Invasions.”

On the other hand, with no superpower invader to repel, it seems logical that Argentina’s debt should trade tighter than Ukraine’s, eventually.

And this is how Democrats keep landing on the wrong side of 80/20 issues: policies that please a loud activist minority but repel a bipartisan majority.