• ‘This new repellent chemistry affords flexibility and choice for protection against a variety of disease vectors,’ says Klun.
• Avoid using electronic repellent devices, mothballs or other unregistered products.
• The repellent agent cannot gain anything from the washing materials agent.

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• Then, with repellent images of disgust, he urges his mother to cease all sexual relations with Claudius.
• The brutal indifference, the unfeeling isolation of each in his private interest becomes the more repellent and offensive, the more these individuals are crowded together, within a limited space.
• The repellent nature of this image evokes the almost primitive disgust that Nixon was able to elicit from his liberal enemies.

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• The fruits make good outdoor Christmas ornaments or could be used as insect pest repellents in the winter.
• His work grew from earlier research by scientists in Beltsville, Maryland, who discovered a family of natural sugar esters that act as repellents to insects.
• But prevention is better than cure, and insect repellents and sprays are the first step in self-protection.

• Mosquito bites may be avoided by removing stagnant sources of water or by using protective clothing, repellants, larvicides, and, in cases of epidemics, insecticides.