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  • Repelled by Western cultureBin Laden attended university in Jeddah, a cosmopolitan Saudi port city on the Red Sea.

    Bin Laden: From child of privilege to 9/11 mastermind 2011

  • Repelled because I was, to put it bluntly, afraid I couldn't do it.

    An Interview with Sue Monk Kidd 2010

  • Repelled because the wine in question is so often less than noteworthy.

    Ch Lettie Teague 2010

  • Repelled by Bush's tax policies, he kept two signs visible in his office for all those seeking appropriations.

    The Democrats Lose a Leader 2010

  • Repelled by such persistent friction, Petraeus and Crocker were determined to coordinate their actions.

    In Afghanistan, Petraeus will have difficulty replicating his Iraq success 2010

  • Repelled by French and British colonialism, he resented American entanglement in the most fateful alliance he would help to create—the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, SEATO, intended explicitly to be an East Asian NATO.

    Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010

  • Repelled by her female contemporaries 'negative psychological traits, particularly present in the upper-middle class, Wollstonecraft reasoned that the best way for women to become full-fledged moral agents is for them to start thinking and behaving like men.

    Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

  • Repelled by light and logic and with no thought for food, water or self-preservation through long - range sustainable employment opportunities via shovel-ready infrastructure investment, the dull unthinking mindless drones sense their strength is in numbers and clutch together in a pack through media land marching to the beat of a non-existent drummer.

    Will Durst: Tax Cut Zombies from the Planet No! 2009

  • Repelled, David tried to back away, but the bald man crouched beside him and waved the Stoli bottle under his nose.

    Final Theory Mark Alpert 2008

  • Repelled by this aspect of his own time, Dante was a paragon of the early Renaissance in both his selective nostalgia for the past and his vision of the future.

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

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