Sentence examples for be fended off from inspiring English sources

Yes, but millions of people do, and they will not be fended off without a fight.

Unlike the real world (sadly), here the bullies can be fended off by blowing virtual dandelions at them.

He wants to keep Switzerland out of all those worthy bodies, including the UN (too late to stop) and the EU (still to be fended off).

"The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally.

In others it will be fended off by autocrats determined not to let it blow their houses down.The most promising region for democrats will be a swathe of north Africa that runs from Tunisia through Libya to Egypt.

Chev Chelios (Jason Stratham), hit man extraordinaire, wakes up to learn he's been dosed with "the Beijing cocktail," a poison whose lethal effects can be fended off only by a constant surge of adrenaline.

Jim Holperin, the only vulnerable Democratic incumbent appears to be fending off a Republican challenger.

(The American delegation will also be fending off pressure for international oversight of American regulatory actions).

I will soon be fending off calls from MasterChef, I imagine, but I am trying to increase my culinary repertoire.

Ongoing claims of bribery in those voting procedures are still being fended off by FIFA.

He was fended off, but the charge terrified my granddaughter and she remembers it clearly.