Exempel på fend

• Most of us, most of the time, exercise our freedom of choice in fending off the unfamiliar.

• In fact, many young people who are perfectly capable of fending for themselves will remain in the parental home until they marry.

• They are already asking for such treatment and having to be fended off.

• Does he think that a public policy issue is involved here, or is it simply a matter of parents who work fending for themselves?

• He calls for a more realistic level of challenge funding to enable museums to be more effective in fending for themselves.

• He fends along in a more or less primitive dwelling which is perfectly healthy, and suitable for all his purposes.

• More women are fending for themselves without support of a husband; many more make an important contribution to the family income.

• As politicians, we spend a great deal of time fending off complaints and grumbles from our constituents, and talking to them about current issues.

• Although there are still difficult decisions to take, the settlement fends off the worse of the disasters and gives us a base on which to build.

• They did so by culling overgrown populaces, hunting too powerful predators that otherwise would rampage unchecked and fending off otherwordly spirits that overstepped their stance.

• Early on in their working relationship, she had fended off his romantic advances, but has come to regret it.

• Play consists of crossing lava pits by jumping across platforms, circumnavigating other hazards, fending off enemies such as spiders and bats, and defeating bosses.

• Planning and maintaining a siege is just as difficult as fending one off.

• After fending off his gentlemanly advances on several occasions, she begins a romantic relationship with him.

• Kingsford fends off the attack and the figure disappears.