They married (she died in 1994) and she was vital to his work, fending off people, commenting on work in progress (which could take hours or days).
My kids insist they prefer white bread, but I recently won them over to a healthier option by making it pink – now it's hard work fending them off long enough for the loaf to cool from the oven.
On March 13, as China worked to fend off an American-sponsored resolution to censure China's rights record at a United Nations meeting in Geneva, Mr. Bao wrote a new letter to the Chinese authorities.
Democrat Barack Obama worked to fend off an intensified attack on his foreign policy credentials from rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday as their paths crossed two days ahead of a potentially race-ending showdown in Ohio and Texas.
[World Business, Section W.] Battling the Big Game Makers Velocity Micro, a maker of gaming computers, is working to fend off a challenge from bigger rivals.
As Mr. Corzine weighs his options, prepares a county-by-county strategy to try to win over residents and works to fend off Republican requests in the courts for more information, he first needs to hear from the I.R.S. on whether the public corporation he wants to create can issue tax-exempt bonds.
All of which means that Schrder is likely to look after his old Veba friends, as Hartmann works to fend off the Greens' most onerous antinuclear demands.
Poverty has pushed many children to work to fend for their families, which usually places them in situations of abuse and exploitation.
The successful ones, such as the vaccine for cervical cancer, work by fending off ordinary bugs that happen to be associated with tumour formation.
In one scorpion species, researchers have found that the arachnids use a relatively weak, but easily produced, prevenom for small jobs such as paralyzing insects and save their deadliest venom for serious work like fending off a larger animal.
Or he won't say it all and simply act the part -- working, driving and fending for his own self.
