The new Congress being sworn in today should in turn swear to fend off the assault.
Bell responded with a second try but Bath were able to fend off the Sharks.
The restriction is designed to fend off speculation in the currency, bank officials say.
He didn't know his Jayhawks would be trying to fend off being the first.
The Kindle Fire is an attractive product, but requires high investment to fend off competition.
The company has also been unable to fend off nimbler rivals from China and South Korea.
Many companies are hunting for drugs to fend off this sort of memory loss.
Iran may well be calculating that it has done enough to fend off further sanctions.
But the region is better prepared than it used to be to fend off hunger.
Such personal feuds will not help to fend off Green pretensions to be the new kingmakers.
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Local mobsters may help scofflaws to fend off the bulldozers, as they have in the past.
This includes the ability to find and dish dirt on opponents and to fend off attacks.
Colleagues vie with each other for preferment, yet must collaborate closely to fend off competition from without.
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Reid, a former boxer, was hunched and mumbling, playing rope-a-dope, vowing to fend off amendments all night.
Mr Simitis no doubt hopes to fend off the fury of his party's passionately anti-Turkish old guard.
The second is to fend off charges that the coup itself is the crime that demands punishment.
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He also had to fend off allegations that he had used military aeroplanes to visit the lady.
At the moment, for instance, India and Mexico are trying to fend off cheap imports from China.
Meanwhile, the regime continues to fend off claims of widespread brutality, including the use of forced labour.
High inflation is also putting pressure on consumer spending, making it more difficult to fend off recession.
Others think that Telecom Italia's industrial and financial plans to fend off Olivetti are not good enough.
Food and medicine is even more badly needed to fend off the drought afflicting the Horn of Africa.
It would give the health insurance industry even more leverage to fend off reforms that would protect patients.
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As rebels scrambled to fend off regime forces in Aleppo, fighting was reported in other parts of Syria.
Kournikova had to fend off the suggestion all week that she chose Shanghai because of the weak field.
In Washington state, Christine Gregoire managed to fend off a challenge from her long-standing Republican nemesis, Dino Rossi.
Brandishing pepper spray to fend off competition for a cut-price waffle maker has become something of a holiday tradition.
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One way to fend off rivals: pounce on any company making health claims.
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