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She survived escaping King's Landing and fending for herself on the road.
So they're better at fending for themselves when trouble hits the fan.
Both were fending for themselves in a cell with dozens of other children.
With little time and sinking poll numbers, congressional Republicans are now fending for themselves.
She was working nights as a bartender, and he was often fending for himself.
There is a fear and suspicion of police running through a community used to fending for itself.
He's also incapable of fending for himself, often relying on his mom to get what he needs.
For the first four years, there were only seven families, working the land and fending for themselves.
She left us for weeks at a time and we were just teenagers and kids fending for ourselves.
But our guests seem happy fending for themselves, and we still have plenty of time to socialize. Thoughts?
For rice farmer Setyarman, the increasing cost of fertilizer means fending for himself to ensure a good harvest.
Teenagers fending for themselves on Earth after some kind of doomsday or parent-eliminating event isn't a novel concept.
The rest of the year, only 50 or so people live here, most of them elderly, usually fending for themselves.
I found it so much more pleasant than fending for yourself on the more crowded areas of the hot white sand.
Plus, today it's back to my usual grind of, you know, fending for myself like the grownup I'm supposed to be.
"These uncontacted peoples make a judgment that they are better off remaining uncontacted and independent, fending for themselves," Mr. Mazower said.
Most people recognized that it looked bad, a black woman fending for herself in front of a group of white men.
"But feel it's important that I allow him to remain as wild as possible in terms of fending for himself," she said.
When Ash met Squirtle, she was abandoned, fending for herself alongside other rejected Squirtles living on the wrong side of the law.
"I'd been fending for myself for years, and it felt overwhelming that suddenly everyone apparently had an opinion about me," she revealed.
So what that often looks like when we're trying to get out the door is everybody fending for themselves in the kitchen.
But fledglings who have left the nest are spread out and mobile, dealing with life on their own terms, and independently fending for themselves.
His decision leaves Franziska, the wife he adores, fending for the family and tending to their farm, as neighbors in their village turn hostile.
Everyone fending for himself eroded federally mandated civil and political rights, not to mention that scary idea about redistributing Confederate lands to former slaves.
Its bones had the same proportions of an adult, which suggests that young titanosaurs were quickly on their feet after hatching and fending for themselves.
House of Representatives Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, of California, has supported such incentives but said clean power firms should soon start fending for themselves.
Calves usually stay with their mothers for nine to 12 months, at which point they're capable of feeding and fending for themselves, Ms. Jakush said.
Instead, as Rusa put it regarding women in Hollywood in the late 80s, it was more about "fending for yourself" and focusing on work-related accomplishments.
It turns out that the more aggressive spiders are the ones to likely survive this type of weather because they are better at fending for themselves.
A rallying dollar and expectations Britain could soon be fending for itself without any agreement with the European Union, its biggest trading partner, are punishing the pound.
After a suspicious outbreak of dog flu in Megasaki City, dogs have been banished and are fending for themselves, scrounging for food among maggots and toxic waste.
But ethically, these slogans highlight two different approaches to the common good: going it alone, with each of us fending for ourselves, versus hanging together, seeking solidarity.
"Citizens have to start fending for themselves as the government has been extremely slow to respond to demands and requests, implementing problematic anti-epidemic measures," they said.
This alien is more or less a loner, fending for herself and trying to scrape together a living without much help from any sort of parental or authority figure.
That move offers some separation between HTC and Valve, but would leave them fending for themselves on mobile hardware that has a wirelessly tracked headset but no tracked controllers.
But we're shown what happens when they do — they're left with no support systems at all, fending for themselves in a world that can't quite understand who they are.
"No one thinks kids should be fending for themselves as they begin to socialize and learn to communicate online," Levesque said in a statement provided by a company spokesperson.
Separated from their mother after an American bombing raid on Kobe, the pair spend their last days fending for themselves in a wasteland where no adult help is forthcoming.
Investigators believe that Ms. Perez's children spent more than a day in the apartment fending for themselves after she was killed, a police detective told WNBC-TV and WPIX-TV.
"Nobody Knows" (2005) is the story, based on news accounts, of a group of siblings fending for themselves in the Tokyo apartment where they had been left by their overwhelmed mother.
"We hope this thing will help the government see that we are here and we are a lot of people that have been fending for ourselves for generations," Panke tells CNN.
Unlike wolves, who have to make a honest living fending for themselves in the wild, dogs are largely dependent on humans for virtually all aspects of life—particularly the acquisition of food.
Trump said on Wednesday that if elected, his foreign policy would leave European and Asian allies of the U.S. fending for themselves if they did not pay more for U.S. defense measures.
Hundreds of scared animals were helplessly fending for themselves in the midst of the raging California wildfires, that is until an army of humans descended on the ravaged areas to save them.
His thought was that Chaz, who was fostered through the "Promote a Pet" program, was experiencing the same difficulties after fending for himself on the streets of Jacksonville before he was rescued.
Most of these women — tough, sassy, vulnerable — were destined to go through their pregnancies in a shelter, jail or even on the street, fending for themselves as they had often done before.
That same feeling is going to have to carry me through my fears now when I think about them going off on their own, fending for themselves, being alone for the first time.
On the face of it, it's good news for women — we're more than happy fending for and spending time with ourselves, thanks very much — but the reasons behind the data are potentially pretty disheartening.
"Consumers in every corner of the country share common experiences about fending for themselves against customer service and billing practices by TV providers that are at best confusing, and at worst deceptive," said Sens.
As a kid, he literally lived on his own, in a house with his brother and no adult supervision, ducking social services and fending for himself by hustling (and occasionally robbing) drunken gamblers downtown.
She had lost her ID and had no way to fly home, so she was fending for herself, middle-manning or dealing in order to use, stuck under the thumb of dealers and pimps.
He had been fending for himself for years in a city now seven months into bankruptcy, but people were telling him, "Detroit's coming up—Detroit's moving," and he believed his life might become easier.
With the U.N. estimating up to a million children affected in Mozambique alone, aid workers are particularly concerned about orphaned children and those separated from their families who are fending for themselves almost two weeks on.
PANKISI, Georgia (Reuters) - Fending for herself after leaving a husband who kidnapped her and then losing two sons in Syria's war, Leila Achishvili has fought hard to secure her independence in fiercely patriarchal north-east Georgia.
But Mr. Trump's remarks fed fears among many South Koreans that his "America-first" diplomacy will leave them fending for themselves, with no sure sign that North Korea is bargaining away its nuclear weapons anytime soon.
And when Jake escapes that encounter and confronts Amara (Cailee Spaeny), a scrappy 15-year-old who's fending for herself in the ruins, it's impossible to miss the similarities to Boyega's first scene with Daisy Ridley in The Force Awakens.
The delicate balance with the United States has left the Mexican government without a clear, consistent immigration policy, so Mexican states and municipalities along the border are often in the position of fending for themselves under pressure from their American counterparts.
Moreover, because so many young men had died, fewer women were likely to find husbands—though it was still the expectation—and women who didn't have financial prospects, an aristocratic background, or much education typically found themselves entering the workplace, fending for themselves.
The news jolted South Korea and Japan, where many are deeply skeptical about Mr. Kim's reported vow to negotiate away his nuclear weapons and fear that Mr. Trump's "America-first" diplomacy will leave them fending for themselves as China asserts its military prowess.
A city council spokesperson told Guardian Australia that authorities can't do much about hairy panic "from an enforcement side of things," so for the moment, we can only assume that hairy panic-stricken residents are fending for themselves with hazmat suits and leaf blowers.
However, if the older adult child is perfectly healthy and able to do work, the best thing parents can do is to get them off their payroll and allow them to grow up by pushing them out of the house to start fending for themselves.
"Women fending for themselves in a shattered economy, many of them widowed in the violence, are increasingly drawn into criminal activity, such as drug trafficking and kidnapping, which some see as the only options available to support their families," Orlinsky writes in the introduction to her photo series, The Juarez Women's Prison.
The impact of these protectionist policies on consumers was not really the concern of the GMA — consumers have been fending for themselves for years, as consumer protection groups have consolidated power through such groups as The Center for Science in the Public Interest, founded 60 years after the founding of the GMA.
Naturally enough, because as the time for agreeing to a deal with the European Union on Brexit trickles away, the UK becomes more desperate to ensure as smooth a transition as possible, from EU membership in a single market, to fending for itself as an independent trading nation among a myriad of competitors, as avid for investment and trade deals as it is.
As the act closes, everyone is alone – Drew, as an upcoming rock star; Sherrie, fending for herself as an exotic dancer; Regina protesting the redevelopment; and Dennis, trying to save his club ("Here I Go Again").
She possesses great agility and sharp senses, including photographic memory. Fending for herself alone since childhood, she has trouble understanding some social customs. However, she is unable to swim as the Forest only had a shallow stream. Jasmine is usually seen with her raven Kree and a mouse-like creature she calls Filli.
Instead, after a 21-day incubation, the ducklings fledge and after a few hours are completely independent, leaving their broodmates and fending for themselves. In contrast with the brood parasitic passerines, whose young are altricial, black-headed duck ducklings are precocial. The black-headed duck is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
A TV news program does a segment on Terminal Island, an off-shore island established after the abolition of the death penalty. First degree murderers are shipped off to the island to spend the rest of their days fending for themselves. Carmen is dropped off at Terminal Island. The first prisoner she meets is a former doctor.
A thriller focusing on the rise of a group of influential and powerful gangsters. Ali is a shepherd who has shouldered responsibility of fending for his family, including his parents Farid and Faatima, and his younger sister Nahid. One fateful day he ends up saving Abdullah Khan's (the underworld crime lord) life. As a result, Abdullah's rival, Khalid eliminates Ali's family brutally.
Female southern leaf-tailed geckos usually lay one or two soft-shelled eggs in late spring. These eggs are up to 28 mm in length. The eggs are buried in moist soil or leaf litter to prevent their drying out. Left to develop unattended, 3 months later the offspring hatch and begin fending for themselves, catching insects within only a few days of birth.
His wife, 36 years old, strong and healthy, is just as shy of work; even in the harvest these two highly lazy people take on no harvesting work. About this, the whole municipality is angered and gives nothing further. The policeman has the duty of disrupting begging. Were it further allowed the couple, they would have been able to live continually without fending for food.
From then on, while John Black sailed in and out of Sydney, Mary Hyde resided on this allotment backing onto the Tank Stream. Black's family was fending for itself whilst John was often away for months at a time, or even longer, either whaling or otherwise working his trade as a ship's officer. On 31 May 1799 John Henry Black, son of John Black and Mary Hyde, was born at home.
Its diet primarily consists of aquatic animals, such as snails, and occasionally land vertebrates. Mating occurs in the rainy season and eggs hatch in March, with young fending for themselves as soon as they hatch. The yacare caiman was hunted heavily for its skin to use for leather in the 1980s, which caused its population to decrease significantly. However, trading restrictions placed since have caused its population to increase.
Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum is an entertainment/reality series which aired on BBC Three. The series follows a group of young adults who have been waited on hand and foot their whole lives. The series sees them living together in a house and fending for themselves. Each week they must compete against each other in tough work challenges set by their parents, designed to encourage them to become more independent.
At the week's first workout, the trainers talk about the importance of fending for yourself during singles week. After Auckland's weigh in saw some contestants gain weight, the trainers motivate the players to avoid pitfalls while on vacation. Brett focuses on Kaylee, trying to work out some emotional issues and mental blocks about losing weight. Kaylee believes that with her father gone from the competition, it will allow her to focus solely on herself.
Parapaar () is a 2014 film directed by Sanjoy Nag is based on the Moti Nandy novel. A convict, Rudra (Ahmed Rubel), who returns home to his wife (Rituparna Sengupta) and two kids after serving a 14-year jail term. He comes back to find his home-maker wife transformed into a woman who had grown stronger over the years while fending for herself and her kids. The film also stars Paoli Dam and Bratya Basu.
The sand flounder feeds off a yolk-sac attached to its under surface until they are capable of fending for themselves. As an adult it is adapted to feed best at night on sand or mud. They are ambush predators, going unnoticed by camouflage and then attacking their prey when it comes near. They eat a variety of bottom-dwelling invertebrates such as crabs, brittlestars, shrimps, worms, whitebait, shellfish and tiny fishes located by touch and vision.
The character is portrayed by Jan Graveson, pictured. Disa is first seen in March 1990, in flashback scenes set from January. Diane Butcher has run away from home and is fending for herself living on the streets of London, where she befriends Disa, a fellow teenage runaway. Disa is working as a prostitute and tries to convince Diane to follow the same path with the hope that they can raise the funds to share a flat together.
In rare cases, less than 1% of the time, animals that are rescued may be deemed unreleasable. If an animal has been released on two occasions and returns both times, it may have become habituated with people and is no longer capable of fending for itself. Some animals may have suffered injuries that have left them blind or otherwise disabled. Although their health is stable, they may no longer be able to survive independently in the wild.
They breed all year round but egg laying usually peaks in January, two months on from the onset of the rains in southern Africa. The clutch size is between 2–7, incubation is carried out by both sexes and takes 11–12 days. Both parents feed the chicks on green grass seeds and termites, until they fledge after 17–21 days. They are capable of fending for themselves a week after fledging, becoming fully independent a week later.
The pale bluish-white eggs are oval-shaped and measure . Incubation lasts around 23 days, with both sexes sharing incubation duties. The chicks are partly covered with down at hatching, but are not capable of fending for themselves; they become capable of regulating their temperature at 9–12 days and are fully feathered in 13–21 days. They begin to leave the nest and climb around at 2 weeks, fledge at 30 days and become independent at around the 45th day.
Merle and Daryl spend time fending for themselves in the woods. In the episode "Home", they come across a family being attacked by walkers and Merle half- heartedly assists in Daryl's efforts to rescue them. Merle then attempts to rob them, but Daryl points his crossbow at him and lets the family drive off before walking off on his own. Merle follows and they get into a physical confrontation, where the depth of their father's abuse is shown when Merle inadvertently exposes scars on Daryl's back.
During the match DDB got into an altercation with Kenjiro Katahira (a former wrestler and part owner of defunct HCW), which led to Takadoki fending for himself and eventually losing. In March 2012 Bonilla along with AZW stars Kaimana, "Mr. Athletic" Jeff Cobb, Bobby Bolt & Mark Anarchy ventured out to Hayward, California to take on the stars on All Pro Wrestling (APW) in the "Pacific Challenge" best of three series. Currently, Bonilla works more as an announcer for the weekly AZW show and live events, while only wrestling periodically.
Animals on the other hand, can mature quickly. Rats, for example, have a much quicker growth rate "From birth to adult, rats take about three weeks to mature and begin fending for themselves. The rodents reach sexual maturity in about five weeks and begin mating soon after to produce the next generation to start the rat life cycle over again". On top of the extremely short time it takes a rat to mature, they can provide us with a complete set of organ systems, not just a paper-thin sheet of cells.
Since the beginning of mankind, food was important simply for the purpose of nourishment. As primates walked the Earth, they solely consumed food for a source of energy as they had to hunt and forage because food was not easily on hand. By early humans fending for themselves, they had figured out that they needed a high energy diet to keep going on a daily basis to survive. These developments eventually lead to agriculture, which also goes into the labor for food and the economic part of the sociology of food.
The chicks are partly covered with down at hatching, but are not capable of fending for themselves; they become capable of regulating their temperature at 9–12 days and are fully feathered in 13–21 days. They begin to leave the nest and climb around at 2 weeks, fledge at 30 days and become independent at around the 45th day. In Australia, Torresian crows, wedge-tailed eagles and white-bellied sea eagles take eggs or young, and tick infestation and viral infections may also be causes of mortality.
Though it requires a living host in order to survive, the Venom symbiote has been shown to be adept at fending for itself independent of a host. The symbiote is capable of shapeshifting abilities, including the ability to form spikes or expand its size, as well as mimic the appearance of other humanoids after it has obtained a host. The organism can additionally use its shape-shifting abilities to conceal itself by altering its coloration or by becoming completely invisible. It also contains a small "dimensional aperture", allowing its hosts to carry items without adding mass to the costume.
She did return a couple of years later but had seen that they were happy in their new life with Dave and decided to leave things as they were. The boys were unaware of their origins until they asked Dave during an argument over their exact date of their birthday. Dave was unsure, as Vinnie had never revealed herself to him, but the boys investigated and eventually tracked her down. In the 2007 feature film the chipmunks are living in a tree, fending for themselves as their parents had taken off to join a hippie commune, and having problems gathering nuts for the winter.
In one of the longest consecutive sets of verses describing a sexual act, the Kamasutra describes fellatio technique between a man dressed like a woman performing fellatio on another man. The text also mentions same-sex behavior between two women, such as a girl losing her virginity with a girlfriend as they use their fingers, as well as oral sex and the use of sex toys between women. Svairini, a term Danielou translates as a lesbian, is described in the text as a woman who lives a conjugal life with another woman or by herself fending for herself, not interested in a husband. Additionally, the text has some fleeting remarks on bisexual relationships.
The series stars Loni Anderson as L.K. McGuire, a onetime showgirl who manages to nab a young wealthy husband, only to have him die and leave her fending for herself against his embittered family, who are out to get L.K. out of the picture and away from her inherited money. Meanwhile, L.K. reconnects with a down-on-his- luck uncle, Bully Stevenson (Jack Elam) who has been on and off the streets of Los Angeles. L.K. invites him and his pal, Ricardo Williams (Lee Weaver), to move into her vast mansion, to the consternation of her snobbish inlaws, Eleanor and Quentin Standard (Dana Ivey and James Cromwell). Quentin tends to be a bit more tolerant of L.K. and her family, but Eleanor can't stand them, and does everything possible to get rid of them all.
Unlike conventional chart hits of the time, "Like a Rolling Stone" featured lyrics that were interpreted as expressions of resentment rather than love. Author Oliver Trager characterizes the lyrics as "Dylan's sneer at a woman who has fallen from grace and is reduced to fending for herself in a hostile, unfamiliar world." The song's subject, "Miss Lonely," previously opted for easy options in life—she attended the finest schools and enjoyed high-placed friends—but now that her situation has become difficult, it appears that she has no meaningful experiences to define her character. The opening lines of the song establish the character's former condition: And the first verse ends with lines that seemingly deride her current condition: Despite the obvious vitriol, the song's narrator also seems to show compassion for Miss Lonely, and expresses joy for her in the freedom in losing everything.
At home, there is tension between his parents as they disagree over the decision to sue Taylor and the settlement amount. When the next settlement hearing is called, their attorney suggests wheeling Jason up to the stand to play on the jury's sympathies, to which Jason snaps that he does not want to be put on display "like some brain dead idiot" who is no longer capable of fending for himself. He puts an end to the lawsuit and writes out an undisclosed amount, which he says is enough to cover his parents' mortgage and debt incurred by his medical expenses, to which the school officials agree. Prior to the semi-finals for the state championship, Jason, now focused for the first time in a long time, takes it upon himself to mentor his replacement, Matt Saracen, after the latter confides that he is having confidence issues prior to the state semifinal against the Brant Vikings.
Vicaire is the author of bibliographies of Honoré de Balzac, José-Maria de Heredia, George Sand, Stendhal, Victor Hugo and gastronomic literature and a very important work in 8 volumes on the literature of the nineteenth century, Le Manuel de l'amateur de livres du XIX°siècle ; 8 volumes available online. "This work, which will remain one of the monuments of the bibliography, has among other merits that of fending for the first time the issue long overlooked by first editions of the great romantic" and earned its author in 1906, the Botta prize of the Académie française and twice, in 1900 and 1912, the Brunet prize awarded by the Académie des inscriptions et belles- lettres. From 1896 until his death, Georges Vicaire was director of the Bulletin du bibliophile with which he worked since 1890. From 1898 to 1902, he was secretary of the "Amis de l'eau forte" and in 1900, a member of the organizing committee of the retrospective section of book at the Exposition Universelle (1900) and a committee member of the International Congress of libraries.

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