How To Use Fend off In A Sentence
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The architectonics of the sculpted locks, the author argues, augment their power to fend off sorcery and other malevolent forces.
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This leaves the ‘old school economic policies’ of dollar devaluation and deficit financing to help reflate the economy and fend off deflation and boost exporters.
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It is also a way to fend off growing budget deficits and impending government cutbacks.
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If attacked, the herd could stampede, or ‘circle the wagons’ and fend off predators.
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Mopp gear - the stuff soldiers have to wear to fend off the nasties - is not only beastly to wear, it also reduces your vision and slows down your optempo.
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The Government was today trying to fend off a torrent of criticism following the latest bail-out for the cash-strapped showpiece attraction.
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It is also a way to fend off growing budget deficits and impending government cutbacks.
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It is also a way to fend off growing budget deficits and impending government cutbacks.
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The only way to fend off the loud clamour of conspiracy theories is to keep the public fully informed.
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No pomegranate seeds, that was the rule, though it would be difficult to fend off the repeated offers.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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In a Pentecost scene an apostle at the rear of the group was raising his arm to fend off the tongue of flame, like a man attacked by a bee.
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When Bill grabbed a large broom to fend off the one-metre long reptile, it reared up, sparking a hasty retreat from Bill.
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Visitors have long had to fend off a swarm of people hawking camel rides and souvenirs.
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Robson had robbed David Lilley of the ball and just managed to fend off the Kilmarnock defenders.
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He was able to fend off the blow with his arm.
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There are evil guys to fend off; there is a debt to be cleared.
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Relatives are raising her children as best as they can, trying to fend off her dangerous attempts at “motherhood” and “aunthood”, both ineffective attempts may be causing additional PTSD problems with her children, nieces and nephews.
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Improvised weapons such as shovels, chairs and table legs also can be used to fend off adversaries.
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Ohio, where former GOP Rep. John Kasich is trying to fend off an ascendent Democratic Gov.
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GM battle 'hotting up'
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The police had to fend off allegations of institutional racism after a black suspect was beaten by four white police officers.
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Without claws, spiny lobsters use their antennae to fend off predators.
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It has had to make drastic cuts to routes and staff to fend off the challenge from budget airlines, especially on short-haul routes.
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In order to fend off any reminiscences of pagan polytheism, Philoponus points out that unlike the individually differentiated gods of the pagans the three divinities of the Trinity are all of the same, single divine nature in the universal sense of ˜nature™.
John Philoponus
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What really makes them heartsick these days, however, is that they also have to fend off mindless attacks from their scientific colleagues, particularly in Europe.
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She was pinned to the wall as one tried to grab her handbag but she managed to fend off her attacker and the gang fled towards the bus station empty-handed.
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It has had to make drastic cuts to routes and staff to fend off the challenge from budget airlines, especially on short-haul routes.
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This leisure class soon learned that, ironically, it had to fend off doughiness and ill health with the very physical activity it had managed to cast off.
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He managed to fend off his attackers with a stick.
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Colleagues vie with each other for preferment, yet must closely collaborate to fend off competition from without.
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Kan needs a robust showing by the Democrats to fend off any post-election challenge from rivals within his party, such as powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, that could make him the latest of the country's revolving-door leaders.
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His retreat over a hotly contested plan to impose a carbon tax on lorries left him to fend off accusations that he is leading a rudderless Government.
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Coming from the fringe of the electoral area, this was a gutsy performance by the Newport man who has had to fend off many heavy tackles in both his football and journalistic careers over the years.
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The only recluse for them is to light bonfires to fend off the bite of cold and urban people are preferring to stay indoors.
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Because the top concern of bureaucrats is to fend off future problems, the red tape piles up.
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His plans to fend off competition are expected to include cost-cutting measures such as outsourcing.
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The only way to fend off the loud clamour of conspiracy theories is to keep the public fully informed.
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There were similar protests across the world, including Berlin, where bonfires were lit on the streets and barricades erected to fend off police.
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Coming from the fringe of the electoral area, this was a gutsy performance by the Newport man who has had to fend off many heavy tackles in both his football and journalistic careers over the years.
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At last, the negatron-pistol fell from Vahr's fingers, and the arm that had been trying to fend off his knife relaxed.
The Keeper
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Visitors have long had to fend off a swarm of people hawking camel rides and souvenirs.
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Her young son helps her to fend off mashers by rushing into their arms and crying ‘Daddy!’
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The police had to fend off allegations of institutional racism after a black suspect was beaten by four white police officers.
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Throughout the map, you'll discover heavily armed bunkers, guard towers and emplacements to fend off your foes' offensives from land, sea or air.
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The government is unable to use the criterion of nationality to identify its adversaries, and immigrants are unable to invoke their status as neutrals to fend off suspicion.
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Having forgotten his baseball cap in a hasty exit from his home after siesta, he has to make do with a flimsy local newspaper to fend off the Mesopotamian sun's hot temper.
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I watched the fighter fend off or dodge the attack of every solo fighter.
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He was able to fend off the blow with his arm.
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It has had to make drastic cuts to routes and staff to fend off the challenge from budget airlines, especially on short-haul routes.
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Gas and diesel convergence: to fend off fuel cells, gas and diesel engine experts are swapping efficiency secrets
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But he had to fend off criticism from his own MEPs.
The Sun
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Looking sexier than ever, he still has to fend off amorous groupies despite his high-profile marriage.
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She has had to fend off malicious rumours about affairs with celebrities spread by jealous rivals.
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In truth, the SEC's plan will force corporations to fend off a costly plague of frivolous proxy fights just as they fend off frivolous lawsuits.
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Any animal fairly bristling with long, pointed horns and spikes simply looks ready to fend off any and all would-be predators.
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Like so many storekeepers, Thomas feels his watch shop would be a safer place if he had a gun with which to fend off armed robbers.
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She has had to fend off malicious rumours about affairs with celebrities spread by jealous rivals.
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E-Store Builder give Interland another weapon in its armoury to fend off Yahoo!
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She has had to fend off malicious rumours about affairs with celebrities spread by jealous rivals.
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Now I'll have to fend off those nasty questions about getting the snip!
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His retreat over a hotly contested plan to impose a carbon tax on lorries left him to fend off accusations that he is leading a rudderless Government.
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These early forays into so-called conjoint therapy were inspired in part by psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan, the one who argued that life is a series of “security operations” to fend off anxiety.
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
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By this time, we've learned that a willed insensibility was one of Brahms's characteristic traits, one which he used to fend off bits of the world he didn't like.
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But as the Government and its security establishment tries to fend off criticism about its surveillance techniques, the public confirmation will fuel controversy.
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Visitors won't be able to fend off the chill with a nip from a flask - you can't drink in public - although hospitality suites serve free alcohol.
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Here too the Party could fend off opposition by a policy of divide and rule.
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Eating plain yogurt with live bacteria cultures daily and taking garlic and acidophilus supplements can fend off future infections.
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We don't need the Mayor's protection to fend off a solitary journalist asking a simple question.
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Think of Aasiya's hurt and pain in years of marriage and the final 30 or 40 seconds trying desperately to fend off his two knives with her hands and possibly being conscious as he began to behead her," Curtin Gable said during a closing statement that had some jurors dabbing tears from their eyes.
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At the last minute, Armstrong considered donning his helmet to fend off any bottles or rocks.
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In many cases, corrupt officials collude with each other in an entangled network to fend off probes into their dirty dealings.
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We'll have to fend off keas from our lunch during the day and secure our packs tight at night.
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She has to dress as a man to survive in the ruthless and self-centred world of the panners and fend off all kinds of unwanted, and hilarious, attentions as she bravely strives to get her man and revenge her family.
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If they had a little more experience, they might have tried a couple of short strokes coming in there to fend off the challenge.
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But he had to fend off criticism from his own MEPs.
The Sun
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The new graphics are spectacular, and the revamped fighting system makes it easy to fend off the demon hordes in style.
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Somehow she managed to fend off the awkward questions.
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His plans to fend off competition are expected to include cost-cutting measures such as outsourcing.
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• Tim Howard turned in perhaps his finest performance of the season, coming up with six saves to help Everton fend off Premier League title chaser Manchester City in a 2-1 victory on
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So, too, the neoconservatives are trying to fend off critics by assassinating their character and impugning their motives.
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The massive vultures also use their might to fend off hyenas and snap up the occasional live flamingo.
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He was able to fend off the blow with his arm.
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The police had to fend off allegations of institutional racism after a black suspect was beaten by four white police officers.
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She'd placed him in the strictest military boarding schools she could find to fend off his improvident nature.
PAINT THE WIND
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If they had a little more experience, they might have tried a couple of short strokes coming in there to fend off the challenge.
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The tip suggests that urging your patients to brush and floss their teeth after dinner may help them fend off evening snacking.
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It has been used for centuries to revive the spirits, enliven any evening and fend off the cold.
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Visitors have long had to fend off a swarm of people hawking camel rides and souvenirs.
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His hand scrabbled on the countertop, searching for a stick, a pair of scales, any weapon to fend off this unseen attacker.
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Giving Muslim states nuclear power, he insists, is critical to prevent "a conflict between Islam and the West," to help Muslim states fend off "underdevelopment," and to prevent an "explosion of terrorism.
Atomic Non-Allies
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The company managed to fend off the hostile takeover bid.
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The new graphics are spectacular, and the revamped fighting system makes it easy to fend off the demon hordes in style.
Times, Sunday Times
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His plans to fend off competition are expected to include cost-cutting measures such as outsourcing.
Times, Sunday Times
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His retreat over a hotly contested plan to impose a carbon tax on lorries left him to fend off accusations that he is leading a rudderless Government.
Times, Sunday Times
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GM battle 'hotting up'
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Mick had to fend off youngsters trying to jump onto his boat, cope with water shortages, regularly untangle his propeller, avoid a sunken portable toilet and even hide from a barrage of maggots.
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Kevin Terrell, a self-described colonel who founded a group of "freedom fighters" in Kentucky and predicts war with "the jackbooted thugs" of Washington within a year, says he has to fend off hotheads who call him a "keyboard commando.
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The New Yorker wrote that the book presented itself as “a call to arms, in a world spinning rapidly into subliteracy, by a hip yet unapologetic curmudgeon, a stickler for the rules of writing” but the reviewer expressed the opinion that “it’s hard to fend off the suspicion that the whole thing might be a hoax”.
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynn Truss vs. Ate, Shot and Left by David Crystal (English)
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How, exactly, can you fend off technologically superior uninvited guests?
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The company has slashed prices to fend off competitors and pump up slackening demand.
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The company managed to fend off the hostile takeover bid.
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Despite balmy temperatures, you'll need to pack pants, long-sleeved shirts, and, yes, even socks, to fend off the hordes of biting sand fleas and midges on the Tuichi River.
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But as the Government and its security establishment tries to fend off criticism about its surveillance techniques, the public confirmation will fuel controversy.
Times, Sunday Times
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His campaign has been forced to hire paid signature gatherers in a number of states and to shell out huge sums to fend off constant and frequently picayune legal challenges to its petitions.
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I met him years ago as we trudged through the title setting process for a grassroots ballot initiative and I've seen firsthand his ability to build ideologically diverse coalitions and effectively use earned media to fend off bogus election-related challenges.
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Whether you're headed to the cabin or the corner café, fend off fall's chill with luxe sweaters and jackets made to last a lifetime
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She'd placed him in the strictest military boarding schools she could find to fend off his improvident nature.
PAINT THE WIND
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The victim received injuries consisting of scrapes and bruises, however, she was able to fend off her attacker.
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His successor, knowing the war was unwinnable, nevertheless carpet-bombed the region in order to fend off an inevitable defeat until after his re-election campaign.
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Life of the Emperor who saved Byzantium from the Persians but could not fend off the Moslem advance.
A Whimper It Is
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The sword sagged in his grip as he flailed helplessly, trying to fend off the next attack.
The Misenchanted Sword
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He raised his hand to fend off the blow.
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But as long as he continued to undergo treatment, David believed he could fend off Pamela and the need to return to work.
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Hummingbirds are particularly welcome, with their precision aerial maneuvers, including steep dives to fend off interlopers.
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TIMONEY: Well, that's a-- my understanding is, and I don't know too much about that case, but my understanding was this young 15-year - old may have been bullied in school and brought it with him to school just to kind of fend off bullies.
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As one of his central tenets of urbanism seems to be that buildings should meet the street, how does that mesh with pedestrian plazas to fend off vehicular access?
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His retreat over a hotly contested plan to impose a carbon tax on lorries left him to fend off accusations that he is leading a rudderless Government.
Times, Sunday Times
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What's guaranteed to fend off foul weather with true zeal, however, is a mere side dish - a glistening ragout of beluga lentils and onion confit, more tranquilizing than brandy.
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Can you fend off the other boat with your pole?
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So this is what had happened to the modest young amateur champion, I thought, as I watched him struggle through crowds, fend off autograph hunters and grapple with the press.