The phrase "fend against" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is actively resisting or defending themselves against something. For example: The small town had to fend against an invading army.
But I just think that someone should examine: is this where we want this to go for player safety?" But another debate will take place the rest of this college football season: how would Alabama's top-ranked scoring defense (9.1 points a game) fend against Oregon's top-ranked scoring offense (54.3) in a fight for college football supremacy?
But some researchers have long looked at this exceptional epidemic as a means to better understand prion diseases and how to fend against them in the future.
Whether we like it or not, whether we try to ignore it, this kind of negativity in our daily lives is tough to fend against.
Hell, the conclusion of Snowpiercer saw the film's very setting a massive class-divided train derail and explode, ostensibly killing all inhabitants save two, in some anarcho-primitivist wet dream that leaves children to fend against a fucking polar bear.
The routine first began in 2006 to fend off against the rise of al Qaeda groups in Africa.
In the episode, Andrea is separated from the group and is forced to fend herself against the horde of walkers that invaded Hershel's farm.
Ukraine has never been a part of the NATO alliance, and therefore didn't have NATO as a deterrent to fend off against outside forces.
Abandoning it to fend for itself against private industry and interest who only see pound signs not exam results".
"Our landowners have been left to fend for themselves against an onslaught of dishonest land agents and corporate bullies," Mr. Gotschall said.
France, faced with other problems, abandoned its adventure in the Río de la Plata area and left its local allies to fend for themselves against Rosas.
Having overshadowed the Lakers' playoff chase, at least momentarily, Bryant left his teammates to fend for themselves against San Antonio, and they cobbled together a tenacious effort.
