repousser

Trois fois déjà, il avait repoussé la proposition de l'émission, ne voulant pas se ridiculiser sur le dance-floor.
He had already declined the invitation of the show three times. He did not want to be ridiculed on the dance floor.
Quand je suis arrivé au moment où j’ai été enfermé dans mon corps, je me suis arrêté et j’ai revu toute la situation, sauf que cette fois on m’a montré qui m’avait repoussé et m’avait parlé.
When I got to this point of being zipped back up into my body, I froze and I saw the whole situation over again, except this time I was shown who it was that had pushed me back and spoke to me.
Dans sa position formelle, le SPD avait repoussé la tendance révisionniste.
The revisionist tendency was pushed back so far as the formal position of the SPD was concerned.
En 1996, le peuple avait repoussé une décision analogue du Parlement, à la suite d'un référendum (Année politique suisse 1996, p. 23).
In a referendum in 1996, the people had rejected a similar decision by Parliament (Année politique suisse 1996, p. 23).
Les idées généreuses et fortes qui ont présidé à sa naissance, au lendemain d'un conflit mondial qui avait repoussé jusqu'à l'indicible les bornes de la barbarie, retrouvent toute leur actualité.
The generous and strong ideas that presided over its birth, just after a world conflict that pushed the limits of barbarism to the unspeakable, retain all their currency.
Elle avait repoussé toutes ses tentatives de la courtiser.
All his attempts to woo her had been rebuffed.
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