A 115-year-old house which may have inspired the Oscar-winning Pixar movie Up looks set to be demolished, eight years after its octogenarian owner won a battle to fend off developers.
Target firms, however, are showing pluck fending off unwanted suitors.
He quickly found himself fending off a little boy.
Automakers, too, will find themselves fending off digital disruption.
She had never married, and by the account of her sister Mary, who lives in the tiny farmhouse just next door, she had spent her last years fending off the advances of developers.
The big breakthrough was in April 2010, when Ordnance Survey released a huge amount of data for free commercial reuse – an idea that would have been laughable four years earlier, when small web developers were fending off lawsuits over map screenshots.
These attacks were fended off.
iPhone Developer Ironhide Game Studio has released a sequel to its impressive Kingdom Rush tower defence game, promising more upgrades, abilities and enemies to fend off.
Fended off Lucy's amorous overtures.
7.04pm BST 116.1 overs Fended off.
