Turning to politics, he represented New Jersey in the Senate for 18 years, fending off several pleas to run for president.
Money has long been an issue, he said, and he has spent years fending off bill collectors.
Up front, the former Arsenal forward Marouane Chamakh scored his first league goal in almost two years, fending off Ryan Shawcross and coolly sidestepping Robert Huth to create the opportunity.
John Bason, the group finance director who has spent years fending off questions and suggestions that ABF should float off the discount fashion chain, said today: "This statement fully displays the resilience of ABF as a whole group".
The glow of that triumph faded when Jefferson himself occupied the presidency, and spent the better part of eight years fending off more pirate attacks off other parts of North Africa.
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.
As someone born in Trenton, having spent 20 years working at the statehouse and my first 75 years fending off criticism of "Joisey," I smiled and nodded as I read "New Jersey, Like Life but More Complex," by James Kaplan (Op-Ed, May 5).
The company has spent the last several years fending off lawsuits brought by drivers in California and five other states, who have contended that they were employees rather than independent contractors. .
Anthony Grayling, founder of the privately funded New College for the Humanities, a London-based school which charges £18,000 a year, fended off criticism by Usman Ali, vice president of the National Union of Students, who accused him of turning his back on poorer students.
The United States Postal Service spent its 200th year fending off default and pleading with Congress to give it the authority to compete in the booming world of e-commerce.
