beat back

In late April, Connolly announced that he was "stepping back" from his role as ranking member on the oversight panel, saying that his cancer, "while initially beaten back, has now returned."

Vector control officials have sought to beat back the scourge, galvanized by the unhappy residents and fear of spiking disease that’s starting to be realized.

Government forces and thousands of fighters — including from Sunni jihadist factions — beat back the loyalists but also hunted down Alawites, who share Assad’s religion and were seen by many Syrians as complicit in his policies.

D’Aguilar thinks maybe the large rocks and cement surrounding a part of her property helped beat back the fire, but who knows.

Legal experts said subtle modifications to some of the orders reflected attempts by the Trump administration to beat back legal challenges preemptively.