Fending

Pennington succeeded in fending off a chase by Serena Bishop (Sunnyside Sports), who finished two spots better than last week in third. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He shows it by his heart and courage in fending off these idiotic attacks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So how did the space crew do in fending off these public-relations asteroids? ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is meant to inform and equip those who would be interested in fending off false allegations. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When the building maintenance man, Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), rescues Dre from one of several beatings by the Cheng gang, Dre is impressed by Mr. Han’s moves in fending off the attackers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Entrepreneurs and, increasingly, corporate employees were hawked the idea of fending for themselves for health insurance, where they were effectively punished in the form of unaffordable rates for any preexisting conditions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Langer not only has won back-to-back Champions Tour majors, he also almost scoffed at the idea of fending off the Pacific Northwest denizens. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Obferve here, the nature of the miffion itfelf, it is called a fending; Come now, and I will send thee. ❋ Unknown (1796)

I am seriously worried that the whole thing is going to bring the whole of politics into disrepute, meaning that people will start "fending" for themselves and largely ignoring rules and regs. ❋ Praguetory (2007)

And just imagine the children who are involved, the babies and the children who are helpless, and, in some cases, don ` t know where their parents are, and, you know, are kind of fending for their self. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I mean, we didn't have enough places to sit, so he and Barbara and the -- several others had gone in the bedroom, and he had decided to lie down on the bed and Barbara was kind of fending him off. ❋ Unknown (1997)

In many cases there is no adequate provision in the home for the cooking and preparation of food, and in others the absence of the mother at work during the day necessitates the children "fending" for themselves in the providing of their meals. ❋ Alexander Darroch (N/A)

Lately I have been sucking at making ANY meal for dinner and the kids have been kind of fending for themselves. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I must add as well that our "fending" in this fashion for ourselves didn't so prepare us for invidious remark -- remark I mean upon our pewless state, which involved, to my imagination, much the same discredit that a houseless or a cookless would have done -- as to hush in my breast the appeal to our parents, not for religious instruction (of which we had plenty, and of the most charming and familiar) but simply for instruction (a very different thing) as to where we should say we ❋ Henry James (1879)

I wanted to reintroduce the bill in 1972, but I knew we would have to do a better job of fending off the conservative attacks. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

I appeared at a lot of forums with Ted, carrying the torch and fending him off. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

Now it was 1980, and I was fending off a third Kennedy while campaigning with a president whom I greatly admired. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)