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The US and other Nato allies have deployed Patriot missile interceptors to repel any possible attack by missiles or aircraft from Syria.
BBC: John Kerry holds talks on Syria crisis in Ankara
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Premiership clubs were standing by to repel boarders after Juve won the Serie B title to return to the top flight after a one-season absence.
BBC: SPORT | Football | Europe | Juve 'to bypass Premier players'
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He helped the Standard Chartered Bank repel a hostile takeover bid by British rival Lloyds Bank.
CNN: The Tough Trader
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In 1916 Chaim Weizmann, who later became Israel's first president, worked out how to use chestnuts to solve the lack of acetone, a component of the cordite needed by the British navy to repel German U-boat attacks in the first world war.
ECONOMIST: The Atlantic Ocean
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"Functional" coatings that, for example, repel water and dirt have previously been dogged by relatively short lifetimes.
BBC: Coating heals itself after damage
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Van der Sar was equal to Petrov's free-kick, Johan Elmander had a shot blocked by Patrice Evra and the backline, well led by Chris Smalling, was forced to repel a wave of Bolton attacks.
BBC: Manchester United 1-0 Bolton
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"We're not the best defensive side by fluke and we were good enough to repel them, " Brown told BBC Sport.
BBC: Giants boss hails superb defence
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But many investors think the two bosses of Arcelor are now driven primarily by wounded pride to do whatever they can to repel Mr Mittal.
ECONOMIST: Steel: Treating shareholders as pig iron | The
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This was not a triumph for the formal bill scrutiny process - where the imperative was, in the decorative whips phrase repeated by Tory GP turned MP Sarah Wollaston, to "repel borders" rather than to polish up the legislation.
BBC: NHS reform rethink - a triumph for Parliament?
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There's also a "Salsipuedean" ship, bound for the open sea to repel marauding German submarines, and a corrupt administration determined to make a fortune by dealing with of course the Nazis.
NPR: Love and Anchovies: Catan's 'Salsipuedes'
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They are also the views that will repel a lot of voters, not least in secular New Hampshire, who might otherwise be intrigued by Mr Santorum's qualities.
ECONOMIST: Lexington