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Also with a greater number of individuals moving out of the joint family system, this will ensure that retirees are better equipped to fend for themselves when faced with medical expenses
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But there was a nice camp knife that would fend off small vermin the size of a mindune in her pack tied to that saddle
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Still he smiled, ignoring her attempt to fend him off
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So far they had been able to fend the impactors off, but sooner or later one was going to get thru, especially if they would keep coming for another two hundred years
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A few days later Lucy was listening to a late night radio programme on her MP3 player while lying in bed trying to fend off the nightmares that inevitably came after dark
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broken bottles and the carcasses of burnt out cars, fend off twelve
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“Okay, okay!” he protested holding up his hands to fend off an unseen enemy, “But you’ve got to cut them a little slack, Rytal
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programme on her MP3 player while lying in bed trying to fend off
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and many men to fend off the reefs as they made their way inshore
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No longer able to fend for themselves, they slumped on the streets awaiting whichever came first, a handout or death
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unsuccessfully to fend off mosquitoes, the two men sat
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away and leaving the child to fend for herself, as well as
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abandoned and left to fend for herself at an early age
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, was left to fend for itself
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Even had the original plan been completed, there had been no plan to cut them loose and leave them to fend for themselves
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It was not easy for Jon to fend off the natives as he was quite attractive and more imposing than the rest of his shipmates
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The kids have to fend for themselves then
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Staggering backwards, he managed to fend off Gonzalez, recovering from the punch
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All in an instant, he jumped, gasped, felt physically sick, and span around with surprising agility, raising a paw to fend off the expected attack
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Tragically, those in serious need of treatment and proper medical supervision were summarily discharged and ushered into the streets to fend for themselves
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Buddy, expecting to fend off the blow, raised his arm and
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The irony now was that with Amonas missing, and her protector unable to come to her aid she would have to fend for herself
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His place was among the dead the moment he left me to fend for myself
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The rest were mostly kids, left to fend on their own
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When Jesus came onto the scene of this ancient diorama, he was an instantly polarizing distraction to the Jewish yearning for the appearance of another champion, the new judge who would resurrect their national entity, and identity once more as the Hasmonean Maccabees had seemed to accomplish for a while, during the interregnum in which the Greeks tried to fend off Roman incursions into their fractured Hellenistic world
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homeland to fend for itself! This shift has removed thousands of jobs
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I asked if they fed her or left her to fend for herself
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round to greet Honey, she pushed her arm out to fend him off,
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The air outside was freezing, the sun had left his children a long time earlier to fend for themselves without his warmth for the rest of the night
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This left Monica to fend on her own for the evening, and to cook whatever she desired to consume as food
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sleeping bag he had wrapped around himself to fend off the cold
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sufficiently literate to read the Bible, enabling them to fend off the inducements of Satan” turning out so many functional illiterates
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He was hoping only to fend off his assailant, but the mind-cane had a different purpose
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The words family, love, cowardice assault me from every side and, from instinct, I raise my hands to fend off what I cannot see and cannot touch
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He clambers to his feet, surprised at how weak he is, but prepared to fend off all attackers, whether man or animal
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her curly black hair to fend off the rain, stood under one of
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The short interval of busy work tending to communal chores helped to fend off notice of the
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The innocents were returned to it and will have to fend for themselves
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to fend for themselves without clear guidance
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I don’t feel right about leaving you to fend for yourself on the trail
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I tried to fend him off, but he ignored my outstretched knife and lunged
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One fellow picked up an oar as if to fend us off
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Betty insisted on helping Charly with the dishes, even though Charly would rather have stayed and listened to Trask fend off Brandi's curiosity
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We just need to learn to fend for ourselves
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need to fend for themselves
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In the future, they would have to fend for
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doesn’t have the numbers to fend off an attack from both the rebel
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Perhaps if, like Francis Bacon, I'd been horsewhipped as a boy, or thrown onto the streets to fend for myself, or been sold into slavery, I too might have become a tortured, drug-raddled soul living a life of towering highs and debilitating lows with an entourage of devoted sycophants encouraging my physical and mental self-destruction
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fend and fight with, to cause harm but also protect yourself
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I’ve had to fend for myself and I guess that left no time for carefreeness, if there’s such a word
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They were joined in their dry haven by a middle-aged man who was holding a newspaper over his head in an attempt to fend off the rain
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Reaching out both hands to fend off the invasive digits, he grasped at the air finding something solid to hold
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An obscene amount of money had been used up from the estate funds to fend off the legal actions
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If the assignment was to bump off a woman, wouldn’t the widower be free to have a younger mate? The death of a parent should not make much of a difference to the children either, as anyway; they had to fend for themselves sooner than later
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Then she was gone, and the Cimmerian saw only the winged fiend which had staggered back in unwonted fear, arms lifted as if to fend off attack
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The Cimmerian made no attempt to dodge or fend them away, but his own hands darted to the Kosalan's bull-neck
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He wheeled back to see Topal standing in an attitude of horror, one arm out as if to fend off some threatening peril, his distended eyes fixed with hypnotic intensity on something protruding from behind a divan
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Unlike the incident with Blondie, he made no attempt to fend off the blow and took the hit solidly without flinching
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you to fend for yourself
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Greg and Rachel attacked it and found it had only a small laser battery to fend them off
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‘As we currently have a total population of almost twelve billion, this will leave almost nine billion to fend for themselves with no services, power, medication or sufficient food
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The net was so thin, that while it would prevent Captain Darwin’s crew from descending to the planet, it was not enough to fend off even a loosely coordinated pirate attack of more than a few ships
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Then we could fend off the P A F
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„You are now old enough to fend for yourself, boy"; that"s what they said to me
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improve the brain’s function, allowing you to fend off
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The P I ships, programmed to fend off missiles traveling at much faster speeds than these creatures could fly, picked them off with their lasers
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The combat armor they both wore was intended to fend off lasers and not the slug from a large caliber pistol at short range
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on them, telling them to fend for themselves
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fend off the second one, but the third one hit the commander with his homemade weapon
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They were left to fend for themselves while he drained the family’s life savings to spend on excess
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It had taken much more than he expected to fend off Peter
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No one suspected that their city would be able to fend off an orderran attack…”
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I don’t know how much longer I can fend them off though
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Muslims were still able to fend off the attack
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he wanted the information but it was easy for Jim to fend
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it helps to improve the brain’s function, allowing you to fend off
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of Christ Church has to fend for itself during the tribulation, then we, as part of the last
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Those people could not just be abandoned in the middle of Germany or Poland to fend for themselves
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The area near the Pole and the City of the Ancients itself was sub temperate, nearly polar, and Cloud had to draw the leather coat he'd brought with him on to fend off the chill that had seized the air and began to prickle at his skin, leaving a wash of gooseflesh over all of his exposed skin
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out of their homes, left to fend for themselves on the tough
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the courage to fend his ‘forced love’ off
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Too many Americans would have simply told the servants to fend for themselves alone
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He was already on his feet, shoulders bunched, preparing to fend off the intruder
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His hands were both at his throat, though he could not remember having moved them there, as an apparent result of his involuntary reflexes as his adrenaline flowed in a panic-stricken attempt to fend off that evil which tormented him
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The candles still flickered, as if threatening to die and leave the gathering to fend for themselves in the total darkness, but managed to stay dimly lit
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I began to have a flicker of respect for him but I was still going to head back to Tollan alone, to be truthful the hairy one scared me, many an afternoon I’d listened spellbound to the stories told by the well travelled traders but I’d never heard anyone mention the like of this hairy beast and I was not going to jeopardise my trip back to Tollan by having to look after him, I would leave alone and he would have to fend for himself
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� England was at the time at war and its situation was quite desperate, being left alone to fend the attacks of the German military machine
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Sam and Everette had been warned, and they could fend for themselves
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It sounds like something that’s said to fend off
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lil bomber was stuck in a cold parking lot left to fend on his own
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Evidence suggests they were trying to prolong human life and then ended up killing off all the adults, leaving the children to fend for themselves
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She was a fraction too slow; there was insufficient time for her to fend him off
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I couldn’t have gotten to where I’ve gotten to (including a first-hand understanding of what demons really are and how to cast them out; what curses are and how to undo them; as well as how vampires operate and how to fend them off) without the thorough and relentless tutelage of my enemies
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She let go of Pussy, to fend it off
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I made for the car door with my hands over my head to fend off blows from the broom, turned on the ignition, and backed out as Ace went for the garage door
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The tradesman writhed miserably in a futile attempt to fend
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to grow, it became increasingly harder to fend them off while trying