Sentence examples for fending off requests from inspiring English sources
The press office has been fending off requests since last May.
Italian officials have been fending off requests from the media and the diplomatic circuit, all looking for a piece of Mr. Monti.
It is all incarnated in Michael Caine, whose face here is an inscrutable mask of worldly disillusion, breaking occasionally into a droll smile: he plays retired British composer Fred Ballinger, currently fending off requests from the Palace to conduct a special Royal Command performance of his early masterpiece Simple Songs.
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As the president pushes ahead with his politically contentious strategy of deficit-financed funding for smart energy investments, the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) is fending off requests from Florida utilities to change electricity rates increases necessary to help pay for the cost to build an intelligent energy grid and to use cleaner fuels in the future.
He fended off requests to allow a reporter into the dressing room.
LONDON — It's tailgating season, when alumni gather in stadium parking lots to enjoy impromptu picnics, cheer on the college team — and fend off requests for donations.
Others, like Gov. Angus King of Maine, fend off requests for extra protection of ports, tank farms and other private sites simply because they cannot afford it.
Mr. Christensen vigorously defended his loyalty to Mrs. Astor, whom he called a close friend, saying he helped her fend off requests for money from her son.
Before agreeing to sell part of the team to Einhorn, Wilpon and Katz fended off requests from other potential buyers that they include a piece of SNY, the cable network in which the Mets have a 70 percent stake.
Their most immediate concern, doctors say, is to try to fend off requests for unnecessary medication from patients who are fearful that any itch or sniffle is a symptom of anthrax.
