Such personal feuds will not help to fend off Green pretensions to be the new kingmakers.
Sometimes distracting your child with a toy can help to fend off a tantrum.
Continued strikes are reportedly helping to fend off militant attacks.
"It will help to redress this marginalisation by helping students fend for themselves," he said.
Also, it will help you fend off those that will try to convert you to their religion, once they learn of your atheism.
The monkeys are being studied because they are close to humans, and researchers hope to learn something about calorie restriction that may enable them to develop medications that will help people fend off some of the ills of aging.
The effort will help SAP fend off a challenge from Microsoft, which by its recent plans to acquire Navision and its purchase of Great Plains Software, now offers a wide range of products to small businesses.
Intel's competitors are also hoping that a recent decision by Nokia, the largest phone maker, to use Windows Phone 7 rather than the Symbian operating system, will help them fend off Intel, given that the Microsoft program is currently optimized for ARM-based cellphones.
As Porter told AllThings Ds Peter Kafka last week, OMGPOP is rapidly building a team around the game, has moved off of Amazon to its own servers, and is hoping the network effect of its user base will help it fend off clones.
