Until Mr. Ryan left office, already fending off claims of corruption, Republicans had controlled the Illinois governorship for nearly 30 years.
The surgical assistant is thinking of going to Africa to do good works, leaving his sister to fend off claims on their inheritance.
Until then, he said, officers had been able to use semantics -- military pensions are called "retainer pay," not "retirement pay," because an officer can always be recalled to duty -- to fend off claims by former spouses.
Mitchell quit as chief whip on 19 October after abandoning a month-long fight to save his career and fend off claims that he had referred to a police officer as a "pleb".
When asked about their meeting, Mrs Arroyo, who served as Mr Estrada's vice-president before he fell, stressed her interest in his living conditions.Her aim was to fend off claims of vindictiveness without giving ground on the need for Mr Estrada to stand trial, which would infuriate her middle-class supporters.
However, insurance companies fend off claims on a daily basis.
Sopranos' creator David Chase is currently in court fending off claims that someone else spawned key ideas for his hit show.
It's unusual to see the Prime Minister so exposed, teetering on the edge of outright irritation as he fends off claims that the UK isn't doing enough.
Officials from political parties normally make it a basic requirement that they do rigorous checks on people who appear in their broadcasts.The timing is also unfortunate for Ukip, since it believed it had fended off claims that its £1.5m poster campaign was racist.
But with a few phone calls, Mrs. Stouffer was on her way to joining a growing parade of aggrieved writers and artists who have helped to turn intellectual property litigation into a burgeoning cottage industry, with its own small plaintiffs bar and even insurance policies to protect successful writers and musicians from the high cost of fending off claims.
They serve important roles in fending off claims posed by the anti-vaccine movement and in reinforcing public health efforts to prevent diseases.
