Sentence examples for fend off charges from inspiring English sources

Mr Latham made Mr Beazley his defence spokesman last year to fend off charges that Labor was soft on defence.

That may be in part to fend off charges that the handling of the Amiri case was badly bungled.

She has had to fend off charges that her minority partners call the shots in her government.

The second is to fend off charges that the coup itself is the crime that demands punishment.

Clinton even sounds like Warren these days, evidently hoping to fend off charges that she is a captive of Wall Street money and influence.

Mr. Maliki will have to fend off charges that he is somehow soft on Baathists, making any compromise on his part a dangerous political concession.

Astronomy is still fending off charges of blasphemy.

But suddenly Mr Allen has found himself fending off charges of racism.

But the commotion and its reverberations could be far-reaching.Mr Abbott had himself been fending off charges of sexism and misogyny.

It's an argument that Democrats, historically vulnerable on taxes and already fending off charges of expanding government, would probably have lost.

Since then, the network has been fending off charges that its once vaunted programming lineup was a thing of the past.