beat back

Jerusalem beat back the Soviet clients with Washington’s help, and the U.S. won the Cold War battle for the Middle East.

After raising rates to beat back inflation in 2022-23, the Fed began cutting rates last year and the Dow has surged to record after record.

A civil defense official in Las Vegas, Nevada, recommended the formation of a five-thousand-man militia—not to fight Russians, but to beat back Californians who might arrive once the bombs began to fall.

With the industry’s greater wealth has come greater political heft, allowing it to beat back several attempts to tighten regulations under DSHEA.

Now, as civil rights are being beaten back to … backwardness by small-minded politicians, there’s a timely element to this perfectly decent, good-hearted, unsurprisingly sentimental miniseries.