Sentence examples for managed to fend off from inspiring English sources

Dave managed to fend off the lawsuits for a while.

But Google managed to fend off the much lengthier, in-depth review.

For the last couple of years, Hollywood has managed to fend off several attempted kidnappings.

A number of Democratic incumbents also managed to fend off strong challenges in races that attracted national money and attention.

In Washington state, Christine Gregoire managed to fend off a challenge from her long-standing Republican nemesis, Dino Rossi.

"These were people I'd managed to fend off while I was there, but then they crept through.

Big companies are making lots of money, not investing all that much, and yet somehow managing to fend off newer challengers.

In Japan it may have already begun, though so far central bankers elsewhere are managing to fend off serious deflation by cutting interest rates.

Thus Jon Snow continues to come into his own, managing to fend off a rather sneaky attack by Melisandre, a woman not exactly backward in coming forward.

If the five-term senator manages to fend off the primary challenge, he still faces a competitive general election against the Democratic representative Ann Kirkpatrick, in what McCain has described as "the race of my life".

This is still a pressing argument, as Robert Tchenguiz, a property mogul, has recently built up a 5% stake in Sainsbury's and wants the company to spin off its properties.Boots, by contrast, is the clear leader among chemists and is managing to fend off competition from other quarters mainly supermarkets by moving a bit upmarket.