How To Use Beat back In A Sentence
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The boat beat back towards the shore.
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His sword skittered on the hatchet handle as he beat back the young knight.
The Shadow Of The Lion
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Restoring the people's ‘unalienable rights’ may well lie in Jeffersonian interposition and nullification, whereby states beat back the federal occupier by voiding unconstitutional federal laws.
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Police had to beat back the throng to clear a path for emergency vehicles.
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Our soldiers beat back all the attacks of the enemy.
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The 52nd were not beat back, but swerved from the redoubt into a ravine, for they could not carry it. 39 While lying under my horse, I saw one of the enemy jump on the parapet of the works in an undaunted manner and in defiance of our attack, when suddenly he started straight up into the air, really a considerable height, and fell headlong into the ditch.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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In his efforts to beat back the eurozone's financial bushfire and stop it from swallowing up Spain, the prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has been forced to bin election pledges and to concentrate on the ultra-short term.
Eurozone crisis: The pain in Spain | Editorial
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Our soldiers beat back all the attacks of the enemy.
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In El Salvador in the 1980s, 55 special forces troops beat back a guerrilla insurgency while gradually integrating renegade militias into a newly professionalized national army.
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On the long beat back to Henholme, Fiscal Folly crossed the lake to the west shore, while F for Joy set a course down the east, with the rest of the fleet on shorter tacks in the centre of the lake.
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Two other first-term aldermen from economically struggling South Side neighborhoods beat back challenges with help from unions and Emanuel.
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Even when the water cannon finally beat back the flames, timbers smoked and embers smouldered until rain finally fell.
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beat back the invaders
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Police had to beat back the throng to clear a path for emergency vehicles.
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He then beat back Republican efforts to portray him as reckless, naive and inexperienced.
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After graduation, enter the battle of aggressor of beat back Japan for many times.
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Police had to beat back the throng to clear a path for emergency vehicles.
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Even when the water cannon finally beat back the flames, timbers smoked and embers smouldered until rain finally fell.
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Now, as sailors know, it is quite impossible for a dhow which is only rigged to run before the monsoon to beat back against it.
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He then beat back Republican efforts to portray him as reckless, naive and inexperienced.
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Police had to beat back the throng to clear a path for emergency vehicles.
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It could undermine the anti-inflation credibility the Fed won three decades ago by raising interest rates to double-digits to beat back late-1970s price surges.
Fed Officials Mull Inflation as a Fix
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Of course, some of them, though indecisive as regards loss and damage, were strategetical victories: thus, Admiral Arbuthnot beat back Admiral Barras off the Chesapeake, in March of 1781; and near the same place in September of the same year the French had their revenge in the victory (one at least in its results) of the Comte de Grasse over Sir Thomas Graves.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans
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I wanted to beat back at him, smash flesh and bone'tear" rend" Perhaps the physical weakness left from our long ride was our salvation at that moment.
Three Against The Witch World
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Riot police beat back the crowds of demonstrators.
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So we now gonna beat back to whoever offended us in this event.
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The repeal is contained in the annual defense authorization bill, currently before the Senate, and Democratic efforts to beat back a threatened Republican filibuster could prove difficult if the GOP wins races in Delaware, Illinois or West Virginia, states currently represented by Democrats and where laws require new senators to take office immediately.
Obama joins gay rights groups to discuss 'don't ask, don't tell'
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Our soldiers beat back all the attacks of the enemy.
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Police had to beat back the throng to clear a path for emergency vehicles.
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