Word: fended
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...It’s about how to use personal weapons to fend off attacks,” Cooper says. “We know we can’t create the fear of a real life situation. We suggest they try to imagine this is real. It’s nowhere near the tension if you’re fighting for your life. You fight differently under fear...
...course, participants find themselves fighting from start to finish. In a final scenario, students fend off a surprise attack from one of the instructors—from behind, thrown to the ground or otherwise...
When Bonds left the team a few weeks ago to care for his now deceased father, the rest of the Giants were left to fend for themselves. The result? Absolute chaos. Three straight losses to the mediocre Montreal Expos. When Bonds game back, he immediately hit a home run—he was crying as he rounded third, still mourning his dad. And the Giants returned to winning...
...higher than anywhere else in sunbaked Europe - the country has been forced to admit that many of its 4.6 million people aged 75 and over do not receive anything like the care of the Sainte-Agnès residents. Often, in fact, they are ignored or forgotten, left to fend for themselves or die alone. It's a national reckoning that is not coming easily. The immediate flush of media attention last week centered on the sexier political debate over the slow and initially dismissive reaction by the conservative government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, much of which...
...homicide investigator posted to a backwater district where nothing much seemed to happen. Soon enough, however, he and his good-hearted pals at Wangan Police Station found themselves with two nasty crimes on their hands?a gruesome murder and the kidnapping of a police commissioner. Simultaneously, they had to fend off the arrogant and frequently sleazy meddlings of headquarters bigwigs who swooped in to oversee the politically sensitive investigations...