Google offered to help Yahoo fend off Microsoft's offer with an advertising alliance with Yahoo.
But even with all the new weapons, can the rebels fend off an air assault?
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.
It makes sense to invest the surplus since adding scale can help fend off rivals.
Soon after, Office Depot created a poison pill defense that would fend off hostile takeovers.
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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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It was to fend off utter disaster that we needed the Kyoto Treaty, carbon taxes, and Priuses.
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Reid, a former boxer, was hunched and mumbling, playing rope-a-dope, vowing to fend off amendments all night.
The high barriers to entry in the utility industry will also help fend off any additional competition.
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Its proposals would also help mutual fund companies fend off growing competition from exchange-traded and hedge funds.
This will help it fend off future threats from streaming players like Hulu, iTunes, Dish and others.
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.
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