"for coloured fire, potassium chlorate or perchlorate is combined with a metal salt that determines the colour. Rockets are lifted by recoil from the jet of fire thrown out by the Burning composition."
But, as a former war reporter myself, I recoil from the mawkish sentimentality with which we enshrine our casualties.
Some even recoil from the word "outsourcing" itself.
They find it unpleasant and they recoil from it.
The pain of it made him recoil from the exuberance of holiday shoppers.
Israel is the strongest country in the region. And as it is proved, it does not recoil from acting when its vital security interests are at stake.
Northern taxpayers would also recoil from the idea of a future “ministry of finance of the union” which Mr Trichet recently floated.