Chipmaker Qualcomm is fending off a takeover bid by Broadcom.
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His main task was fending off the harms of protectionism.
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Tech companies are fending off criticism from all political corners.
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Fending off tax scammers is often easy, according to experts.
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Not taking pills, receiving injections and fending off panic attacks.
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Dan Donovan -- both of whom were fending off insurgent challenges.
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In the meantime, they remain in Tijuana, fending off boredom.
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Increasingly, he found himself fending off attacks in public forums.
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In Scotland they may have trouble fending off resurgent nationalists.
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The firm is fending off accusations of stealing autonomous-car technology.
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Shay Mitchell is already fending off mom shamers on social media.
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Mr Temer, her successor, spent political capital fending off corruption allegations.
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Pro-choicers were busy playing defense and fending off new restrictions.
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The federal government is fending off a lawsuit over monarch butterflies.
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Anderson then held on, fending off five subsequent Shapovalov break points.
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The company was fending off activist investors and had stopped expanding.
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Fox's ad sales executives have ample experience fending off pressure campaigns.
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For some time, Intel has been fending off a shrinking PC market.
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The country also will pay close attention to fending off financial risks.
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Judge Gorsuch has been a strong ally in fending off federal intrusion.
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But the events in Istanbul proved crucial in fending off the coup.
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A giraffe fending off a lion in a heroic bid for freedom.
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The improved NXP offer was also seen as potentially fending off Broadcom.
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"We'll have to meet on my back deck, fending off the dog."
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Mr. Bukovsky is far from the only one fending off such allegations.
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At the moment, each member is individually fending off Russia's hybrid warfare.
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In Santa Monica, for example, Uber is fending off scooter-sharing company Bird.
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Right now, Mr. Rubio is fending off Mr. Christie, Jeb Bush and Gov.
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H. Bruce Franklin was fending off all sorts of threats over his radicalism.
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Hokulea crew member Sam Kapoi performed the task, fending off eight traditional spears.
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Powerful lawmakers fending off their own graft charges led the effort against her.
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Jamarat is a ritual that commemorates Ibrahim fending off temptation from the devil.
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In one scene, the Ghostbusters are fending off supernatural forces at a concert.
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O), the U.S. chipmaker fending off a hostile bid by Broadcom Ltd (AVGO.
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After fending off the second wave of attacks, Dyn said at 5 p.m.
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The scene had him fending off multiple assailants, so it involved complex choreography.
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Mr. Katzman had sensitive information about Allergan's strategy for fending off the suitors.
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Exclusive films and TV series have become critical to fending off new competitors.
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With Mueller's probe concluded, Trump has turned his attention to fending off congressional investigations.
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But the company has also become more sophisticated at fending off competition, they said.
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Ever since, she has been fending off fans who keep asking when it's dropping.
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The industry's focus has shifted from fending off regulation to helping craft something palatable.
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The left-handed 26-year-old injured her left hand fending off her attacker.
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Heading into the 2016 primary, Hillary Clinton is fending off a challenge from Sen.
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Unite urged Unilever to continue fending off the takeover attempt to prevent job losses.
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The Democratic presidential front-runner, still furiously fending off a challenge from Vermont Sen.
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Starboard also complained about bonuses that Perrigo executives received after successfully fending off Mylan.
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Kellyanne Conway spends her days fending off attacks against her boss, President Donald Trump.
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A ProPublica story highlighting Microsoft's success in fending off the I.R.S. illustrates the difficulty.
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Wartime CEOs are fending off existential threats and must be ruthless in confronting them.
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Trump is unpopular in Europe, and mainstream parties are fending off challenges from nationalists.
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Despite the weather, it reminds me of balmy childhood summer nights fending off mosquitoes.
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A lot of women spend their lives fending off advances; I wasn't one of them.
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A balance will be struck between stabilising economic growth and fending off risks, it said.
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Those hopes extend to Florida, where Republicans are fending off Democratic challenges in several districts.
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A lone Jedi, lightsaber blazing, fending off enemies who could kill him with a blow.
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Elsewhere, the tech industry has had more success fending off efforts to regulate facial recognition.
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Civilians often do not know whom to trust, and end up fending off all outsiders.
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The program focuses on defending against phishing, locking down malicious apps, and fending off hackers.
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And its air defences seem to be just as inept at fending off conventional threats.
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He did that for years as a congressman, defending bankers and fending off consumer protection.
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Progressive Era trade unionists, fending off corporate thugs, could steer into thuggish forms of Stalinism.
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Here are Dansinger's top six strategies for fending off winter blues the science-backed way.
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It means politely fending off sexist come-ons and racist comments shouted on street corners.
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Perhaps Spotify and Hulu view working together as their best chance at fending off those offerings.
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Mr Morales himself is fending off charges of corruption against himself and members of his family.
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He soon published a story about the internal poll showing Facebookers' interest in fending off Trump.
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Jorah Mormont Jorah dies while fending off a pack of wights coming for him and Danaerys.
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And Google was entirely too slow at fending off fake news from flooding people's search results.
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He has waged two wars against Hamas in Gaza, fending off calls for a full reinvasion.
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The Al Jazeera news network is fending off a massive cyberattack, according to a statement today.
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He was fending off Berlin's ceaseless attempts to capture the world's only truly independent central bank.
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So we went quickly from defending ourselves against godless communism to fending off radical Islamic extremists.
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Michigan snapped a two-game losing streak by fending off struggling Minnesota 82-74 on Wednesday.
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When you're fending off demons or space aliens, it's important to have some range of movement.
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The caucuses are days away, and Hillary Clinton is fending off an unexpected challenge from Sen.
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Kosovo now finds itself, like the rest of Europe, fending off the threat of radical Islam.
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How did Ethiopia go from being the world's symbol of mass famines to fending off starvation?
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In fending off Trumpism, political liberals often use the conservative language of defending norms and civility.
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Baylor found a way to trudge to the win by fending off the Mountaineers' big plays.
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As a result, many companies remain in an endless state of reactively fending off rising expenses.
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For weeks, Gunnlaugsson had been fending off reporters asking questions about his recently uncovered offshore shenanigans.
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Senators Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar are fending off criticism for actions they took as prosecutors.
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Laurie endured as a symbol of female resolve, fending off her attacker and rebuilding her life.
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He was fearless and determined as we watched him fending off the police, day after day.
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On the other, he finds himself fending off attacks from one of the president's closest allies.
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But fending off a sense of hopelessness with small changes will not fend off climate change.
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But she held her composure and went ahead, 6-5, after fending off three break points.
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He sets out to find a way to return home, fending off fellow prisoners and limited resources.
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So he stands watch at the mail slot, fending off any evil correspondence that comes his way.
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After fending off plastic surgery rumors, Underwood is ready to focus on her music, not her appearance.
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Macron's campaign has previously indicated it had been fending off hacks, which it suggested originated in Russia.
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Fending off the challenge from Greenlight founder David Einhorn does not mean the end of Barra's battles.
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While the duo is fending off the stinging arachnids, Homer taunts them through a closed-circuit feed.
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China has said that it will strike a balance between stable economic growth and fending off risks.
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While it tries to revamp its image, Papa John's has been fending off fierce attacks from Schnatter.
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Most, if not all, women have been fending off unwanted and deplorable behavior most of their lives.
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Minimize the effort you spend fending off misguided inquiries, and focus on correspondents who most deserve attention.
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If Uber thought the days of fending off Didi Chuxing's advances were over, the company was wrong.
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It's not perfect — a subplot that has Lance fending off advances from his supervisor is arbitrarily sexist.
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On the other, the entire family is fending off: The government, which wants them to become superspies.
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Which is why I'll opt out of waiting and keep fending off my app stalkers by myself.
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It is under pressure to deliver better results after fending off takeover approaches from ADM and Glencore.
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Either Abraham or Rispone wouldn't have to be fending off the other, as they are in the primary.
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Think of Elizabeth I, the historical figure with whom Theresa May most identifies, fending off the Spanish Armada.
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And because it seems like low-hanging fruit, there's always the constant challenge of fending off potential competitors.
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Now Snapchat's priorities are clear: fending off Instagram and proving its money-making potential before it goes public.
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It has also been fending off some criticism from observers that its growth is slowing in some markets.
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A neighbor, 47-year-old Jeff Fisher, came to the couple's aid and tried fending off their attacker.
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And they need to show Washington policymakers that they're capable of fending off problematic activity on their platforms.
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And for now, that stockpile of exploits is still a useful talking point in fending off FBI demands.
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Vimeo has succeeded in fending off a lawsuit over hosting copyright-infringing music files on its video site.
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Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) prevailed in the Mississippi Senate runoff, fending off former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy (D).
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" His theory was that white people were fending off racial extinction, using "psychological brainwashing" and "the AIDS virus.
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He was, however, fending off at least one federal investigation related to his business interests outside the Legislature.
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If Hillary Clinton wins on Tuesday, from Day 1 she will spend her time fending off congressional investigations.
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Hurd narrowly held on to his seat in 22019, fending off a challenge from Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two years after fending off a hostile takeover attempt, U.S. grain handler The Andersons Inc (ANDE.
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She's become a key surrogate on his campaign and important in fending off accusations that Trump is sexist.
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Ithaca, where his wife, Penelope, waits for him while fending off potential suitors, is on the other side.
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Bolder elk and magpies exhibited riskier behaviors like tolerating the experimenter, approaching novel objects and fending off animals.
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With Facebook still fending off government investigations, however, such moves are likely to come later, rather than sooner.
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The best strategy for fending off a bear depends greatly on correctly diagnosing the bear's state of mind.
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KfW has agreed to take a 20 percent stake 50Hertz, fending off an offer from China's State Grid.
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Fending off the Chiefs, in what Roethlisberger called the loudest stadium in the league, demanded a different formula.
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Eight years earlier, when Clinton was unsuccessful in fending off movement upstart Barack Obama, a similar pattern emerged.
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Already, she's fending off attacks on the "tough-on-crime" positions she took as a prosecutor in California.
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After fending off the Miami Heat at home on Sunday, the Celtics found themselves even with the Cavs.
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Blue Planet II showed that the octopus star of its show had two tactics for fending off these predators.
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It is not fielding a candidate in Ealing, to give her the best chance of fending off the Tories.
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Depicting a man on camelback fending off Barbary lions, the bizarre display has intrigued—and repulsed—generations of visitors.
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His name is somehow Damien, and on the wall-mounted flat screen, bodybuilders were fending off a possessed horde.
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At same time, India is trying to attract new investors and companies while also fending off competition from China.
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"To be clear, this is entirely my decision," Ley said, fending off inevitable speculation about his dealings with ESPN.
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Mr Netanyahu has been fending off accusations that his support for buying more subs is connected to this link.
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Be smart: Agencies have another reason to invest in bringing their own data solutions in-house: fending off competition.
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John McCain appears set to win his sixth Senate term after fending off a respectable campaign from Democratic Rep.
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But it's clear Remy has stars in his eyes for Charley, and she isn't exactly fending off his advances.
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Third seed Halep buckled under the strain of fending off the missiles being launched off Ostapenko's lime green racket.
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"Fending off sedition lies in changing behavior, building trust and regaining credibility," he added, without mentioning Qatar by name.
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Save the weaker uncharged shots for when you're fending off an attack on your position or retreating under fire.
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It's not just the steel industry that is fending off a massive Chinese cyber war and flagrant trade violations.
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But Pelosi allies are confident she'll have no problem fending off a challenge if anyone jumps in the race.
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Luckily Clarke knows how to handle dragons, so she shouldn't have any problems fending off a few pesky ghosts.
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The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , who is fending off charges of fraud and bribery, got a riotous cheer.
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But Musk is still fending off the skeptics, especially those who doubt the company will ever turn a profit.
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It could potentially help in fending off both viral and bacterial infections and combat the deleterious effects of inflammation.
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VW is fending off lawsuits claiming it was too slow to inform investors about its rigging of emissions tests.
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Fending off bad actors like the Russians has been and will be increasingly expensive; it may even be impossible.
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After seeing the clip of Jill Biden fending off the protester, Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Rep.
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He was still writing his incisive, mordant, antigovernment editorials, still fending off attacks from the administration of President Chávez.
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Under Lila Neugebauer's direction, Elaine May stars as a Greenwich Village bohemian and art gallery owner fending off dementia.
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Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei is pitching lucrative goodies to European governments in the hopes of fending off bans.
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Bouchard clinched a fiercely contested first set with an unreachable crosscourt forehand after fending off several forays from Sharapova.
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Israel's military said soldiers had been fending off Palestinians who had approached and tried to sabotage its security fence.
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Some may lose their seats altogether; others may be forced to use up campaign money fending off primary opponents.
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Henry Cuellar is fending off left-wing challenger Jessica Cisneros, the congressman praised the killing of Iranian Maj. Gen.
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As their series against the Cavaliers wore on, the Warriors found themselves fending off more than just the Cavaliers.
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A recreated montage of her time on Fox & Friends shows her fending off sexual comments from her co-hosts.
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Nunes, a California Republican, was already fending off accusations from Democrats that he played a role in the scheme.
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That means it has to prioritize fending off Beijing and Moscow while slightly minimizing the need to fight terrorists.
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Fending off criticism from some Western countries, China has said it is willing to boost imports and widen market access.
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And fending off global rivals seems to sharpen the incentives of managers at these firms to copy other successful ones.
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It is fending off more than 13,000 lawsuits alleging (despite earlier scientific evidence to the contrary) that Roundup causes tumours.
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Its leaders have pushed to join the European Union while fending off criticism of cracking down on opponents and journalists.
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And although Renate does a pretty good job fending off the monsters, she suffers a complete meltdown in the process.
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For his followers, this makes him a heroic St. George fending off the dragons of Political Correctness and Social Justice.
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In short, the lawsuit put Cohen in the hot seat at the same time he's fending off the criminal probe.
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Analysts say the two chains believe the other can help fill weaknesses in their businesses while fending off new competition.
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Cuomo won his third term last year after fending off a primary challenge from progressive activist and actress Cynthia Nixon.
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SVG, which is fending off a $1.35 billion bid from U.S. rival HarbourVest, said it was "urgently" evaluating the proposal.
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Obama is scheduled to meet on Wednesday with congressional Democrats to discuss strategies for fending off Republican attacks on Obamacare.
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They practiced fending off a knife attack and getting out of a stranglehold, repeating the moves until they came naturally.
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The team running the Cannes Film Festival has been fending off complaints about women's representation for a few years now.
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Democrats have spent years fending off attempts by Republicans to scrap major aspects of that law, known as Dodd-Frank.
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On the heels of fending off a takeover offer from Kraft Heinz, Unilever reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings.
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Iranians on social media asked why officials were busy fending off criticism from abroad rather than sympathising with grieving families.
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He demonstrates an even greater verbal nimbleness as a Hamlet who uses wordplay as a sword, fending off invasive intimacy.
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The GNA is fending off an offensive by General Khalifa Haftar's forces in the east of the North African country.
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Meanwhile, Uber, which is now valued at about $70 billion, has spent recent months fending off chaos on all sides.
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Meanwhile, Trump – famously admiring of such spectacles – is hunkered down in Washington, fending off impeachment efforts and domestic political assault.
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Certainly there's never been a movie shot on the Great Wall before, especially one in which you're fending off monsters.
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It's not long before he's fending off famine by repurposing scrap metal and bicycle parts into an ingenious irrigation system.
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With nowhere else for these people to flee, many have a stake in fending off the attack on the northwest.
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Its military gains, in particular, have made it much more capable of fending off a US foray into Chinese waters.
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Fending off a debilitating illness and depression, Mr. Benner spent hours making art, something he had done much of his life.
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That experience makes Trainor a great fit to lead SoundCloud, which is fending off bigger rivals like Spotify and Apple Music.
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After just a handful of questions, Harry Potter fans are able to learn their own personal method for fending off dementors.
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After fending off the U.S. group's unwelcome $143 billion proposal, the Marmite maker said it will focus on boosting shareholder return.
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First on trade, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is in Beijing for talks aimed at fending off a trade war with China.
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China must be on guard against "black swan" risks while fending off "grey rhino" events, President Xi Jinping said on Monday.
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With Manning out of the picture, Assange became the focal point, fending off a PayPal blockade and newly prominent rape charges.
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Cavallari has been fending off judgmental comments since the Fourth of July, when she shared a photo of her two sons.
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China must be on guard against "black swan" risks while fending off "gray rhino" events, President Xi Jinping said on Monday.
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Snap recently released a redesign of Snapchat — to mixed response — as a first step toward increasing engagement and fending off Instagram.
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Now Europe is left wondering whether Austria's political whizz kid is fending off a populist uprising, or preparing to lead it.
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Fending off marauding barbarians, I'm sure you'll be aware by now, is a signature feature of any Black Friday doorbuster sale.
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Omega-216s have been credited with a slew of health benefits -- lowering heart disease and inflammation and fending off cognitive decline.
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Cruz is now trying to continue his outsider campaign while fending off the "unlikeable" attacks from Trump, the ultimate non-politician.
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Obama is scheduled to meet on Wednesday with congressional Democrats to discuss strategies for fending off the Republican attacks on Obamacare.
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Facebook is still fending off fallout from a Gizmodo report last month suggesting political bias in the company's Trending Topics operation.
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Dan Donovan is projected to win his Republican primary Tuesday night, fending off a tough challenge from hard-charging former Rep.
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Northam is fending off his own calls to resign due to a controversy over a photo in his medical school yearbook.
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The president and his allies appear prepared for a long fight ahead in fending off the opposition through the country's courts.
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During the 1960s, many liberals and even socialists found themselves making common cause with conservatives in fending off the New Left.
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But he was considered potentially vulnerable to a primary challenge in 2628 after winning narrowly fending off tea party challenger Rep.
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But ensuring broad popular support and committing to good governance is a part of fending off a military overthrow, he said.
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Compounding their difficulties, Republicans are also fending off a challenge to Senator Richard M. Burr in North Carolina, a state Mrs.
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Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party is fending off challenges from the opposition party known as Congress as well as rising regional parties.
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Many Republicans today are just playing small ball, trying to keep the party in power and fending off the charging Democrats.
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It's been successful in the past at fending off big timber companies, yet Cortes still hasn't been entirely spared the chainsaw.
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Once you've had the first cigarette, or two, it will get lost in everything else and you're basically fending off withdrawal.
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If you keep your body healthy and well-nourished, your immune system has a better chance of fending off the virus.
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He was instrumental in rehabilitating historic buildings, sometimes buying them himself, and in establishing green spaces and fending off excessive development.
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Logan and his children grapple not only with the issue inherent in the show's title, but also fending off acquisitive rivals.
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But tusks are also tools for gathering food, digging for water and fending off predators, so cows need them as well.
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Instead, both underscore that for young retail brands, fending off competitors both big and small can prove both expensive and distracting.
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In 22015, fending off accusations of corruption, he told the South African journalist Debora Patta that he identified with the underprivileged.
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Pelosi announced her support in a letter to colleagues late Wednesday after fending off a challenge to her post from Rep.
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GrubHub has been fending off competition from the increasingly crowded food delivery industry from Yelp Inc, Postmates, Square Inc's Caviar, Amazon.
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It's a precarious, high-stakes balancing act for the country, given the role the U.S. plays in fending off Russian ambitions.
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Kantor and Lee both argue that thinking about the positive outcomes of automation is necessary to fending off the bad ones.
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In Colorado, where the chain is based, he's also fending off marijuana farmers, who pay trimmers up to $17 an hour.
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Mr. Bolsonaro, who has vowed to clean up entrenched political corruption, is now fending off corruption allegations against his own administration.
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The good old days she refers to are ones I also lived through as a young adult fending off sexual predators.
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Salad Boru, an Isiolo County local official, thinks owning more goats and sheep also may be helpful in fending off cattle raiders.
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A string of weak results over the past year left Bunge's management fending off takeover approaches from traders Glencore PLC and ADM.
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In March 2016, Trump was the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, but still fending off challenges from a few candidates.
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Only this car wreck is made out of voxels, talks with a bad Russian accent, and is fending off giant scorpion monsters.
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Everyone has trouble keeping their finances straight, maintaining a clean apartment and fending off tracksuit-sporting Russian mobsters armed with exploding arrows.
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She had to maintain the North's loyalty as Jon was off trying to negotiate with Daenerys, while simultaneously fending off Littlefinger's scheming.
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Hillary Clinton is busy fending off another email, scandal and Donald Trump is doing what he's always been doing: being an asshole.
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Often, tech companies are either fending off attacks on their own systems or developing a way to protect its users against hackers.
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The Walking Dead star Jon Bernthal has gone from fending off walkers to supporting one of the dog world's most misunderstood breeds.
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Online advertisers are suddenly fending off privacy bills left and right after the backlash over Congress' repeal of federal broadband privacy rules.
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But Kerber fought back, saving two break points at 3-4 and then fending off a flurry of Halep backhands to hold.
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For several hours, the two dueled, fending off the pressure of the moment with brilliant golf that made for grand, taut theater.
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Is it truly surprising that I reacted less like a sweet, obedient female and more like an animal fending off a threat?
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Why this matters: The membership hike comes at a time when the Trump Organization is fending off criticism about conflicts of interest.
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That's why regulating stress and depression through exercise and meditation is important for fending off infectious viruses like the cold and flu.
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For years, we have been fending off invitations from a family that asks to take our young children to their weekend home.
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Ms. Omar, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, has been fending off accusations of anti-Semitism for weeks.
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Tammy Baldwin is fending off a challenge from Republican Leah Vukmir, and polls indicate that she shouldn't have any trouble doing so.
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To minimize your time fending off unsolicited "helpful tips," Sarah Eichler, a lactation consultant based in Brooklyn, suggests being terse but polite.
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Cat-astrophe avoided A California cat named Max showed its warrior spirit after fending off a trio of coyotes in its yard.
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She didn't just detail sexual harassment — though, her first day, she was fending off a brazen sexual advance from her direct supervisor.
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Frank Lee, a United Auto Workers union member at GM's Corvette assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is fending off bill collectors.
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Her term was reduced by President Temer, who spent much of his time in office fending off corruption charges of his own.
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The Huskies elicited a throwback moment of joy, fending off the Orange, 52-50, at the Garden in the Tire Pros Classic.
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Dr. Carlo Croce, a department chairman at Ohio State University, has been fending off accusations of data falsification and other scientific misconduct.
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Brave did everything the boys' movies did, and it did it backward, in high heels, while frequently fending off inappropriate workplace behavior.
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It's possible Berlin and other European capitals will start asking for US assistance in fending off an unlikely North Korean nuclear attack.
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"I want to spend our resources fighting for Democrats up and down the ballot, not fending off Howard Schultz's independent bid," she wrote.
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Instead, Facebook spent the spring of 2016 very busily fending off accusations that it might influence the elections in a completely different way.
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Costco has even put its socially-conscious corporate reputation on the line, fending off local critics who have rallied against the Nebraska operation.
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Former mining services firm Broadspectrum is fending off a cut-price offer from Spain's Ferrovial as it shifts its focus to government contracts.
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Damian Green, the deputy prime minister, is fending off claims of sexual misconduct with all the legal and rhetorical force he can muster.
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The activist investment firm criticized the drugmaker for missing performance targets, while being distracted by fending off a Mylan (MYL) takeover last year.
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Executives have in the past indicated the legacy brands are having a hard time fending off upstart brands like Kylie Jenner's Kylie Cosmetics.
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For the males with weaponized bills, the adaptation is good for fending off rivals, but it comes at the cost of feeding efficiency.
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He also defended McConnell as "actually a good guy" at an April rally in Indiana, fending off attacks from then-presidential candidate Sen.
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With the help of the Google Assistant, he spent his day alone jumping on the bed, eating pizza, and fending off potential burglars.
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More pathogens are developing new ways of fending off drugs designed to kill them, and infections are spreading more widely outside of hospitals.
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Banks are already fending off financial-tech firms, which are offering all kinds of bank account and payment services to "disrupt" the industry.
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Given both the uncertainties and the urgency of fending off the terror threat, the impetus to turn to someone like Morton was understandable.
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China will focus on fending off risks this year, particularly risks that will impact regions and cause systemic fluctuations, the NDRC's Fan said.
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By July, I could be fending off survivalists for the last tin of baked beans in an abandoned supermarket in Walton-Upon-Thames.
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Matt Bevin is fending off a challenge from Andy Beshear, the state's Democratic attorney general, and the polling points to a close race.
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In the same period, Afghan forces killed about 20 Taliban fighters a day in fending off their attacks, a senior Afghan official said.
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Landlords and developers, fending off a new Democratic majority and proposed rent laws, have adopted some of the tactics of their progressive critics.
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But she spent her final years in poverty, desperate to revive her screenwriting career and fending off eviction from her Benedict Canyon home.
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California's largest utility needs to reach a settlement with victims of wildfires and other creditors while fending off calls for a state takeover.
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So then we had the "I am not a scientist" phase, with one lawmaker after another fending off climate questions with that formula.
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After that she spent years working in bars, singing the classics of the Egyptian diva Oum Kalthoum, fending off aggressive and drunk men.
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After that she spent years working in bars, singing the classics of the Egyptian diva Oum Kalthoum, fending off aggressive and drunk men.
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With most ballots counted, Mr. Sanders had about 26 percent of the vote, fending off Mr. Buttigieg and another moderate rival, Amy Klobuchar.
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In recent days, Clinton's campaign has also been fending off new revelations about the money-making aspects of Bill Clinton's post-presidential life.
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Reynolds, a 36-year-old designer and startup founder from Cincinnati, Ohio, had been fending off burnout, in fits and starts, for years.
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Lee will draw huge confidence from fending off Lin, however, having shedded a psychological weight that has hung over him throughout his career.
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They're also apparently in a competition to see which of them can be the most deadpan — while fending off an apocalypse, of course.
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The women claimed they had been lost for five months, fending off storms and shark attacks, and surviving on a mostly pasta diet.
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Her main problem in the next few weeks will not be fending off half-baked leadership plots, but pushing her Brexit deal through Parliament.
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The 75-year-old has survived political and personal scandals before, fending off accusations of graft and rape before he took office in 2009.
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Whatever comes of the investigation into the 2016 election, the measures Zuckerberg announced today are vital toward fending off similar threats in future campaigns.
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Unlike in the United States, Starbucks' challenge in China has been winning over traditional tea drinkers to coffee, rather than fending off local rivals.
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Village council member Pawar and a few others intervened and, fending off blows, managed to get the men to the Rainpada village council office.
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GM CEO Mary Barra is fending off attacks from hedge fund Greenlight Capital, which wants to install new directors and split the company's stock.
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"If it is just talk that is understood to be a way of fending off other international initiatives, we aren't interested," the official continued.
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The company has spent the past year fending off critics who claim it is addictive, bad for democracy and overdue for a regulatory reckoning.
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Before the announcement, the company was fending off questions from the public and lawmakers this week about how it shares data with device makers.
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She will need to spend the next year wooing voters in early-primary states—while also fending off challenges and scepticism from her left.
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Just the recent rise in long-term rates shows that the market believes the Fed will succeed in fending off a recession, Emanuel said.
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Now: We find Andy managing Miranda's Twitter and Instagram accounts, tweeting back at Taylor Swift while fending off trolls in the comment sections below.
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While the government, banks and other major institutions are prepared, smaller sites with fewer resources might have a tougher time fending off the attackers.
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A veteran Kansas legislator has won the Democratic primary for governor after stressing her Statehouse experience and fending off questions about her voting record.
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But that professional peak soon descended into months of fending off accusations about the company he worked for while on the campaign: Cambridge Analytica.
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An algorithmically sorted feed, better relations with brands and influencers and a clear strategy for fending off Facebook could all help secure Snapchat's future.
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The new version comes as Facebook is fending off a new legal challenge in the US over the legality of its photo-tagging system.
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Syrio Florel was last seen fending off a group of armoured knights who were attempting to take Arya captive in Season 1, episode 8.
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Unilever undertook a deep review of its business and structure last year after fending off an unwanted $143 billion takeover offer from Kraft-Heinz.
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That challenge, from an unnamed foreign-government-owned company, is fending off mounting fees for failing to turn over information to the grand jury.
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"An isolated incident carried out by this person ... does not constitute a state scandal," he said after fending off several lawmakers on the issue.
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And he has been fending off multiple lawsuits alleging he is illegally making money from his luxury hotel just blocks from the White House.
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service recommends bear repellent spray as both safer and more effective than a firearm in fending off bear attacks.
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Until the fall, Russian teams had used the drug regularly and openly, viewing it as a remedy for fending off exhaustion and heart problems.
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Kelly spent the majority of the first round fending off choke attempts from the prodigal Brazilian who clung to him with a body triangle.
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The company has also found itself fending off a number of lawsuits over the years from consumer advocacy groups concerned about its product labeling.
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Most of these assessment regards President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif as moderates fending off opposition towards engagement from the "deep state".
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After years of successfully fending off Dr. Beck and her industry allies, the balance of power at the agency had shifted toward the industry.
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Qualcomm, one of the world's largest chip makers, has spent the last four months fending off a hostile takeover from Broadcom, a Singaporean rival.
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All eyes are on the carmakers this year, which are announcing deals and products aimed at fending off Apple, Google and, of course, Uber.
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But nonprofits can only do so much, experts said, and in many cases there are private companies with better technology for fending off hackers.
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Unilever has agreed its biggest acquisition in six years, months after fending off a £26 billion takeover attempt by Kraft Heinz, the Times reports.
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At the same time his legal team is fending off the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which handles financial crimes and wants him on related charges.
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Ivan Hung, chief of the Infectious Diseases Division at Hong Kong University, said those masks alone are "definitely inadequate" in fending off the virus.
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But to some news publishers, already fending off fake-news accusations and struggling to retain readers, chumbox ads have turned from annoying to toxic.
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But after hours of fending off his chitchat, flattery, requests for massages and a bath, ultimately I found myself pushed back against the bed.
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Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's intercession could spell trouble for Mr. Cuomo and Port Authority officials, who have been fending off critics of the AirTrain plan.
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But it came at the expense of an older, white candidate who was already fending off questions about his record on matters of race.
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With most ballots counted, Mr. Sanders had about 26 percent of the vote, fending off Mr. Buttigieg and another moderate rival, Senator Amy Klobuchar.
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The game unfolds around a cross-country road trip that sees you stopping frequently along the way to gather supplies while fending off monsters.
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Zuma has survived several political and personal scandals, fending off accusations of corruption, influence peddling and even rape before he took office in 2009.
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It said U.S-led coalition forces had supported the SDF in fending off the Islamic State attack, and heavy losses were inflicted on the Islamists.
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I've tried out Microsoft's HoloLens — the best-known augmented reality headset — fending off invaders crawling through hotel walls and walking around a virtual solar system.
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But rising nationalism among Dutch politicians and voters could indeed help with fending off a takeover, says Ron Meyer of TIAS business school in Tilburg.
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THE bacteria which inhabit human beings, particularly the guts of those beings, have been found in recent years to be important for fending off disease.
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From September 14 to 7003, the Russian and Belarusian militaries are holding a joint war game to simulate fending off an attack from Western powers.
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And, in the worst-case scenario, we may find ourselves fending off these very children who grew up and into direct threats against our homeland.
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He added that as newer activists cropped up, the more traditional ones were seen as more sophisticated and capable of fending off the smaller funds.
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Jon Tester is the apparent winner in his bid for a third term, fending off a strong challenge from Republican Matt Rosendale, NBC News reported.
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From enduring inclement weather and fending off grizzly beasts, to navigating through seemingly endless (not to mention identical) forests, anything can happen in the woods.
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The Golden Bears improved to 103-210 on the year while fending off a pesky Rebels team led by Patterson, who had a career night.
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The inflation data meanwhile added to an increasingly complex outlook for Britain's economy, which up until now has been fending off economists worries surrounding Brexit.
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They instead spent the night fending off a Taliban attack on the city's airport after the Afghan police guarding the perimeter ran from their posts.
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Sometimes he served as a foil for Mr. Beame, fending off politically potent supplicants and accusing semi-independent agencies of foot-dragging in imposing economies.
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Powerful GOP chairmen in deep-red Texas are fending off primary challengers in an election cycle dominated by the anti-establishment fervor gripping the country.
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He quickly found himself fending off questions about a potential civil trial involving rape allegations against Derrick Rose, one of his key off-season acquisitions.
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They occasionally face discrimination and abuse - from difficulties renting cars due to biased perceptions that women are bad drivers, to fending off drunken male passengers.
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From here, the two women mosey around—indulging a superfan, fending off paparazzi, driving to and fro, doing karaoke, and ending up at Heather's house.
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The earliest versions of the holiday were largely about honoring the souls of the recently deceased and fending off ghosts with not-so-friendly intentions.
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Those of us for whom existence means fending off onslaughts to our fundamental humanity can afford to not know and prepare for the latest threats.
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Now, the companies that shot up to the top while Microsoft was busy fending off the Justice Department are engaging in similar anti-competitive tactics.
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Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and 4393 other newspapers, has laid off reporters across the country and is fending off a hostile takeover bid.
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They defeated Poland and tied Japan, and appeared to be content with fending off Colombia's attack and aiming for a draw on Thursday in Samara.
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Nadler will work to showcase his expertise while fending off efforts by Republicans to turn the hearing into an ugly fight over the process. Rep.
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The company is fending off antitrust investigations from both the Justice Department and a coalition of attorneys general representing nearly every state in the country.
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Low birth-weight: If your baby is born under 5 pounds 8 ounces, they may have a harder time breathing, eating, and fending off infections.
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Noah G. Purcell, Washington State's solicitor general, fared little better in fending off questions from Judge Richard R. Clifton, appointed by President George W. Bush.
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LC231, have been isolated from Earth's surface for four million years, yet testing showed they were capable of fending off 26 of 40 modern antibiotics.
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After fending off a possible takeover from Italy's biggest retail bank Intesa Sanpaolo earlier this year, Generali announced plans to leave markets where it lacks scale.
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There's always someone in McDonald's who reminds me of me, someone staring down at their table, fending off their whatever, communing with a Filet-O-Fish.
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Never mind the snakes, alligators and Florida men; without a car I worried more about negotiating America's creaky public transport system than fending off local fauna.
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That's an especially amazing feat when you remember that Fortnite was originally conceived as a cooperative online game of building defenses and fending off monster assaults.
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And they are fending off Polish criticisms that their proposed "Nord Stream 2" gas pipeline from Russia to Germany will make Europe more dependent on Russia.
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Mr Fox spent much of this week fending off questions about whether Britain would end its ban on chlorinated chicken in order to satisfy America's farmers.
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So Bombshell, which won the Fragrance Foundation's Fragrance of the Year award in 2011, can now add "Best for Fending Off Bloodsucking Bugs" to its résumé.
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Local governments and state organizations should find a balance between stabilizing growth and fending off risks, controlling the pace and intensity of such policies, Xi warned.
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A "rich kid with mommy issues," she says, isn't exactly a challenge for a woman used to single-handedly fending off ISIS fighters in war zones.
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The Australian banking sector has been fending off calls for a powerful judicial inquiry amid accusations of widespread abuses at their financial advice and insurance units.
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Intel has been fending off rival U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp's rise in the chip content of supercomputers as the machines take on more artificial intelligence work.
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Rolet took over at LSE from Clara Furse in May 2009, ending a prolonged period of fending off takeover attempts and questions about the exchange's future.
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Italian newspapers have said Intesa's move is in part aimed at fending off interest in Generali from foreign companies such as France's AXA and Germany's Allianz.
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The rights plan is also aimed at fending off Brookfield Asset Management's accumulation of its Class A shares, TerraForm Power said in a statement on Monday.
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CanniMed is in the process of buying Up Cannabis' parent Newstrike Resources, while also fending off a hostile takeover by larger rival Aurora Cannabis Inc (ACB.TO).
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Even before that, Anbang was fending off rumors circulated online that the company was under government investigation and that its chairman, Wu Xiaohui, had been detained.
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Karl Frisch, executive director of the progressive nonprofit Allied Progress, said maintaining the current CFPB structure is critical for fending off "Wall Street influence" in Congress.
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The first Bush tax cuts were initially presented as a means of returning budget surpluses to taxpayers, then as a means of fending off a recession.
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He also made it clear that their mission will not involve fending off a hoard of dangerous migrants as Trump insisted in his pre-election rhetoric.
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That philosophy served Alibaba, now a Chinese e-commerce behemoth, well in its early days fending off competition on its home turf from online marketplace eBay.
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He insisted that new business investment powered by the 2017 tax cuts would boost supply enough to keep up with increased demand, fending off price increases.
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Uber is facing congressional scrutiny over alleged labor violations and safety concerns, all while fending off competition from taxis and other ride-hailing companies like Lyft.
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Ku survived nail-biting tiebreakers in the quarterfinals and the semifinals before fending off Valladont to win, 7-3, on a gusty day at the Sambódromo.
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Oregon State earned a seventh-place finish at the AdvoCare Invitational in Orlando, fending off a furious Marist rally to upend the Red Foxes 65-46.
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And though he lost to Senator Ted Cruz in Mr. Cruz's home state, Texas, Mr. Trump prevailed in Virginia, fending off Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.
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An acquisition of Humana would represent a significant strategic shift for Walmart, which is the world's largest retailer and has been focused on fending off Amazon.
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And investors knocked nearly $70 billion off Facebook's market value in less than a month as executives admitted costs of fending off outright regulation would spiral.
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As sales of such biological medicines boomed, Roche benefited from growing Cabilly licensing fees while also successfully fending off lawsuits from competitors unhappy with the arrangement.
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Kennedy's greatest success, historian Robert Dallek writes in an Atlantic retrospective, was fending off not the Soviets but the voices that contradicted him inside the Pentagon.
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Todd Gurley, right, of the Los Angeles Rams, fending off Dorian O'Daniel of the Kansas City Chiefs during a game in Los Angeles on Nov. 19.
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" — Drew Dixon, a former executive at Def Jam Records, who said fending off advances from the label's co-founder Russell Simmons was a "full-time job.
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Procter & Gamble's expensive, hard-line defense against Nelson Peltz failed, but both G.M. and Automatic Data Processing have shown that fending off hedge funds is possible.
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The second case involved a Norwegian Airlines flight from London to Seattle in January, in which a woman said she spent hours fending off another passenger.
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He doesn't seem to care much about loans to impoverished people, assistance for governments fending off security threats, or providing medical care to those in need.
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Valadao officially concedes in California race MORE (R-Calif.) won reelection to a fourth term on Tuesday, successfully fending off a challenge by businessman T.J. Cox.
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For 25 years, Boston Dynamics has been building robots and releasing videos of the terrifying things running around, opening doors, and fending off stick-wielding humans.
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" DREW DIXON, a former executive at Def Jam Records, who said fending off advances from the label's co-founder Russell Simmons was a "full-time job.
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Through modern advances in waterproofing, four young women have brought their telephones with them into the pool, fending off a potentially cloying surplus of timeless splendor.
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In this exclusive conversation, Lundgren speaks about Macy's latest earnings results, how the company is fending off competition from online retailers and the future of the industry.
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In addition to fending off diplomatic pressure over the crisis, the Myanmar government has also invited a handpicked media delegation to visit the affected region this week.
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Both backlashes created poor optics for Marvel, which was fending off criticism that it wasn't doing enough to diversify its cast and characters in its cinematic universe.
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In Kasatka's case, veterinarians said she battled a respiratory bacterial infection for several years, but as she aged, it became more difficult fending off the lung illness.
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Harder's departure signals a change in strategy for Weinstein: Instead of fending off the investigations of media outlets, he's now preparing to defend himself in criminal investigations.
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The president's former campaign manager Paul Manafort is also fending off criminal allegations related to his lobbying on behalf of a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.
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While Taylor was fending off comments from his future wife's family on Monday's episode, Cartwright was spending time with her gal pals looking for her wedding dress.
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He forced banks to tackle billions of dollars in distressed corporate loans, discomfiting powerful tycoons accustomed to fending off their creditors through politician friends in New Delhi.
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Still, if a fresh round of fighting begins, then a stronger military alliance of Islamist factions would stand a better chance of fending off Mr Assad's advances.
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After fending off a possible takeover from Italy's biggest retail bank Intesa Sanpaolo earlier this year, Generali has said it is leaving markets where it lacks scale.
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While this dovetails with previous statements by regulators and central bankers in China, such calls in the past have had little impact in fending off bearish pressure.
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Recent polls suggest the Liberals could retain power, fending off a challenge from the rival Conservative Party, which has said it would not allow Huawei 5G technology.
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Having a near-death experience shook him to the core, and for several years, he and Elaine both pursued every natural avenue of fending off heart disease.
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My favorite game that I've played this year is The Long Dark, which is about fending off death in a Canadian winter by scavenging whatever you can.
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I look forward to trying the Light Phone and learning what it feels like to live a life without fending off the barrage of social media notifications.
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State bank KfW agreed on Friday to take a 22018 percent stake in high-voltage energy network operator 50Hertz, fending off an offer from China's State Grid.
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The resulting narrative of beleaguered Poland fending off foes to the Russian east and European west is "a best seller," said a Warsaw media analyst, Jacek Wasilewski.
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Monsanto, which is fending off lawsuits by people who claim Roundup gave them cancer, has also been demanding IARC members turn over documents related to their work.
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Largely viewed as an indifferent ruler, preoccupied with opulence and luxury, he spent much of 2014 fending off questions of legitimacy by his political nemesis, Imran Khan.
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After fending off PPG's unwanted interest, Akzo launched a failed attempt to buy U.S. coatings company Axalta at a price which Tweedy Browne said was too high.
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Shearer subscribes to this spirit of chance and quest, which comes with both risk (fending off fire ants, evading toxic sap) and the reward of the unexpected.
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Enemies hit hard, and if you happen to find yourself fending off two enemies at once, it's a better idea to run away—greed is universally punished.
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A meager 500 words and I still found myself in the same high-alert mode that our ancestors faced when fending off beasts or scavenging for nourishment.
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Even so, many economists insist that fiscal spending is crucial to fending off a protracted downturn caused by supply disruption and a retreat from nonessential economic activity.
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For now, Bezos may be fending off some of the worst of that predicted populist ire because of his ownership of the highly Trump-critical Washington Post.
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And with the Australian government fending off allegations of political interference from the Chinese government, some worry this ignorance of history will spur an anti-Chinese backlash.
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That Sanders is rather handily fending off a whole slate of viable presidential candidates, as opposed to just one, is a clear sign of strength, not weakness.
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In addition to a possible sale, Grubhub is also weighing the possibility of an acquisition and has discussed strategies for fending off activists, according to the Journal.
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In addition to fending off the most attacks — 16, according to a tally by NBC News — Warren also spoke the most, clocking in at about 23 minutes.
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The previous rate hikes through December 2015 to March 2017, aimed at curbing high inflation and fending off pressure on the fragile rupee, weighed on the economy.
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Eli Lilly announced back in March that it would sell a half-price version of Humalog, fending off criticism about rising drug prices in the United States.
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Republican Debbie Lesko is projected to win Arizona's nationally watched special election, fending off a strong challenge from Democrats who have been overperforming in deep-red seats.
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The success of the process pushed shares in many major banks higher, supporting a recovery for Madrid's stock market and fending off this week's broadly weaker mood.
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She was rescued by the circus's lion tamer and an attendant who dragged her out of the cage while fending off the tigers with guns and spears.
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Most people who win the lottery wind up miserable, he argued, dealing with complicated taxes and constantly fending off demands for their new, not-so-limitless wealth.
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Though Didi may have vanquished its competitor, Uber is still a threat to Grab and Ola, and raising money is important to fending off its continued challenge.
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Ferro is fending off a hostile takeover from rival Gannett, and he has said that he wants the company to publish 2,000 AI-generated videos per day.
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Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle successfully fending off the MMA trolls I don't drink coffee, I take tea and I like my toast done on one side.
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Icahn-backed Tague was named Hertz's CEO in November 2014, fending off a challenge from Dollar Thrifty CEO Scott Thomson, who was backed by activist investor Jana Partners.
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And that's by far the most important, mostly because her dragons and cache of dragonglass represent the only chance humanity has at fending off the White Walker threat.
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Fending off a hostile-takeover approach from an American rival, AkzoNobel proposed a plan to separate its chemical division from its paints business, which includes the Dulux brand.
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What little time bosses of the remaining conglomerates have between juggling duties at disparate business units will be spent fending off investors clamouring for empires to be dismantled.
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The Labor Department further contends the rule would save contractors and taxpayers money because businesses wouldn't be bogged down by the legal expenses of fending off discrimination cases.
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But as Google and Facebook face mounting pressure for regulation, SESTA increasingly seems like a workable compromise, giving prosecutors a new tool while fending off more onerous regulation.
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The Verge spoke to Stoa about what's fending off a corporate takeover, potential legal regulations that could help the industry remain small, and the environmental impact of farming.
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While some employees were said to favor returning to China, we rarely heard from them — aside from top executives fending off hostile questions at weekly all-hands meetings.
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The former chief executive, Clemens Schneider, was ousted last May after fending off a hostile takeover bid against the will of the former key shareholder, the Haselsteiner family.
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Fending off relatives while mourning their husbands and selling assets like cattle to pay court fees to fight eviction were among the challenges widows face, the report said.
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Returning home from a long day of fending off his enemies' attacks, the gazillionaire slips into a bathrobe, microwaves his lobster thermidor, and eats it while sitting alone.
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The suppressed genes (downregulated presumably to avoid competition within a bacterial cell for scarce metabolic resources needed for more immediate tasks) include many related to fending off phages.
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In cases where biology is not up for the task, scientists could use cybernetic enhancements, including artificial neurons or synthetic skin capable of fending off dangerous UV rays.
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From September 14 to 20, the Russian and Belarusian militaries held a joint war game to simulate fending off an attack from Western powers — in other words, NATO.
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German state bank KfW agreed last week to take a 20 percent stake in high-voltage energy network operator 50Hertz, fending off an offer from China's State Grid.
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Chris Sununu will win re-election, NBC News projected, fending off Democrat Molly Kelly, who emerged as a serious threat to the incumbent in the campaign's final days.
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Saying hi and getting to know the person is so much better than awkwardly fending off sexual innuendo or talking about what letter in the alphabet I am.
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If Spotify can make the deal happen without breaking the bank, it might have a better chance of fending off Apple with all its money and platform power.
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In fact, Instagram has become Facebook's best weapon for fending off Snapchat — and any other apps popular with smartphone-wielding teens and Millennials threatening to leave Facebook's orbit.
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In a new document from the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, Britain's spy agency describes its difficulty in fending off tech companies keen to poach its workers.
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The maker of Dulux paints is in the process of spinning off its specialty chemicals division, as promised by management in the process of fending off PPG's advances.
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Sales growth has stalled across the industry, and food giants are pouring more targeted efforts into fending off upstart on-trend competitors like Kind Bar and Beanitos chips.
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While fending off those calls, the government has announced a number of measures since last year aimed at alleviating public concerns about the power of the big banks.
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Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) has also prevented NOC Tripoli from reopening Ras Lanuf and Es Sider, after fending off an armed attack against the ports last month.
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When Boon Sheridan decided to convert an old church into his new home, he didn't think he would end up fending off dozens of would-be pokémon trainers.
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Your correspondent has lost a camera fending off unwanted affections in China, a phone on Delhi's crowded metro (amazingly later recovered) and plenty of wallets over the years.
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The single-minded artist fending off compromise in order to realize a vision is a powerfully romantic narrative, but great art is just as often about effective collaboration.
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Senior Apple engineers feel that government intrusion is not their primary threat model when designing iPhone security and said they instead prefer to focus on fending off hackers.
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The Syrian Democratic Forces, also known as the SDF, are the United States' main allies in the region and have been fending off Islamic State militants for years.
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But commenting unfavorably, seemingly on the posterior of the first female major-party presidential nominee — while fending off accusations of sexual harassment and misogyny — is something entirely new.
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The deal marks the largest acquisition outside of China for Alibaba, which is starting to make big moves overseas while still fending off competitors like JD.com back home.
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Vanke is already fending off a potential bid from its biggest investor, financial firm Baoneng Group, which has built up a 215 percent stake despite the developer's protests.
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Brolin's job is to protect movie stars from the vagaries of public scandal; to that end, he dashes around Hollywood soundstages chasing kidnappers and fending off gossip columnists.
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There are concerns that the row could threaten global supplies of microchips and smartphone displays, while undercutting crucial collaboration on fending off North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.
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The official channel, Taylor said, was focused on long-standing US goals vis-à-vis Ukraine, like fending off Russian aggression and combating widespread corruption within the country.
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Instead, while fending off accusations of jealousy, he turns up a Chinese government plot to catapult her to international literary success — in which she is a willing participant.
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The challenge for Facebook moving forward will be fending off competition from existing players, like Google, and emerging ones, like Snapchat, as these mobile ad budgets keep growing.
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Those efforts are on top of the imperative for major platforms to avoid a repeat of 2016 by fending off coordinated disinformation campaigns seeking to roil Americans politics.
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The win is a necessary one for Sanders — who went into Tuesday as the frontrunner in the Democratic primary, but is still fending off a resurgent Joe Biden.
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Yet here Mr. Curbelo is again, fending off a serious challenge from another Democrat, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, 47, a former associate dean at Florida International University's medical school.
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It's meant fending off the label they were going after Pelosi, the speaker who played a crucial role in passing Obama's signature legislative accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act.
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He presented himself as the seducer or the seduced, not a conqueror; "Teacher, Teacher," another newly released vault song, has him fending off a lonely teacher's unwanted advances.
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A mix of these tactics may be more effective in fending off discounters than cutting prices ever lower and will certainly be less harmful to grocers' profit margin.
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Fending off GoJek Since driving Uber out of Southeast Asia last year, Grab has stepped up the competition with regional rivals like GoJek, which is headquartered in Indonesia.
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Real estate investment trust Kimco Realty is poised to be one beneficiary of Albertsons acquiring Rite Aid, creating another U.S. grocery-pharmaceutical behemoth fending off Amazon and Walmart.
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Bernie Sanders's most persuasive argument for his single-payer health plan, in a presidential race where he is continually fending off attacks from opponents on his political right.
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Ralph Northam of Virginia showed no sign of resigning over a racist photograph on his medical school yearbook page, fending off pressure from his aides and Democratic allies.
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As Uber's new leader, he will walk into a situation that would test even the most seasoned CEO: A $70 billion company fending off chaos on all sides.
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Whoever succeeds Mr. Draghi will get the benefit of his tested arsenal of monetary tools for fighting credit crunches, fending off predatory bond investors and squelching banking crises.
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One is intensely confident and fending off shameful lust for popular party boy Nick (Mason Gooding), the other shy and pining for the class skater girl, Ryan (Victoria Ruesga).
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As a gunnery sergeant in 1968, Canley risked his life protecting his company while fending off waves of enemy attacks en route to help surrounded allies in Hue City.
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New era at Sky Comcast won a protracted bidding war for Sky last year, fending off a challenge from 21st Century Fox (FOXA) and its powerful backer, Disney (DIS).
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BEIJING, Dec 11 (Reuters) - China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said on Monday it will be more active and directed in macro controls and in fending off financial risks.
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Facebook, long under legal and reputational fire for breaches of users' personal data, is fending off criticism for a new breach, revealed in late September, affecting 50 million users.
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That's why he emphasizes the emotional content of his events -- feeling the love, or fending off "the haters"-- and grooms his fans' loyalty through an oath to his person.
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While their craft is about to be blown out of the sky, the five heroes spend as much time bickering among themselves as they do fending off the onslaught.
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Fellow E&P name Energy XXI filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, and Chesapeake had spent weeks fending off speculation that it was on its way to a similar fate.
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After parachuting down to the location of your choosing, the goal is to scavenge as much of an arsenal as you're able to while fending off enemy players/squads.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson diminished the organization he led during the first year of President Donald Trump's administration while fending off personal attacks from his own president.
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Fast-forward two years later, and the kid's fending off twin siblings and being approached by Nick Jonas with (what appears to be) a cocktail in his hand. Ehhhh.
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A core component of Mexico's strategy is to argue the three nations have a common interest in fending off Asian competition and exploring scope to source more content regionally.
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The UAE holds that it is fending off aggression from regional rival Iran and supporting Yemen's president, who was ousted when Houthi rebels overran the capital Sanaa in 2014.
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Looking at just the 18 proxy fights against companies that are at least Yahoo's size, the data suggest that those companies are more successful in fending off proxy attacks.
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The accord, the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA), facilitates three-way intelligence gathering with Washington, which is crucial in fending off North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.
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Meanwhile, a better matching algorithm would be a significant competitive advantage for Tinder, which is today fending off other newcomers, too, not just the desktop web-era dating sites.
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Fending off its bigger rivals requires that Slack continue to expand and diversify its offerings, said Salvatore Recco, executive vice president at 50 Park Investments, an investment advisory service.
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Vanke's management is already fending off a potential bid from its biggest investor, financial firm Baoneng Group, which has built up a 25 percent stake despite the developer's protests.
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The company currently is battling in-house culture issues as well as fending off a lawsuit from Waymo charging that its LiDAR tech is built off stolen Waymo data.
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After fending off charges of anti-competitive behavior for many years, the Silicon Valley company has, since 2014, seen the tide swing against it in several antitrust cases worldwide.
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She's ruled over the division ever since, expertly fending off three strong challengers and becoming one of the UFC's most reliable and long-standing current champs in the process.
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By comparison, this same independent watchdog complained that America's "complex and fragmented" administration has proven ineffective in deterring excessive risk-taking and fending off threats to the financial system.
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They're too busy taking attendance in class, policing students' use of digital toys and fending off complaints about next week's outrageous assignment: a book (yes, read the whole thing!).
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The deal is designed to help AT&T counter slowing growth in its core wireless, internet and satellite businesses while fending off online video upstarts like Netflix and Hulu.
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Because interest rates are already historically low, the Fed wants to take a risk-management approach to setting policy, fending off any softening in growth before it becomes serious.
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Two freshman Democrats — Representatives Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — embrace the boycott-Israel movement and have been fending off charges of anti-Semitism for weeks.
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Mr. Trump, for instance, spent 15 years fending off a class-action lawsuit over the use of 200 undocumented Polish workers at his first signature luxury building, Trump Tower.
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Outside the city, Senator David Carlucci, whose 38th District includes parts of Rockland and Westchester Counties, is fending off an insurgent campaign by Julie Goldberg, a librarian and writer.
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After years spent fending off attacks from without, from rival financiers to a certain ax-grinding United States attorney, Bobby Axelrod got caught flat-footed by his own protégé.
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Delta emerged from bankruptcy in 2007 after cutting costs and terminating its pilots' pension plan, shifting liabilities to the government, and fending off a takeover bid by US Airways.
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After two lopsided losses to start the N.B.A. finals, the Cavaliers fell in line behind him as they spent much of Wednesday evening fending off the Golden State Warriors.
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I get an egg sandwich with lamb sausage and a black coffee, fending off the temptation to get a boozy brunch cocktail for a little hair of the dog.
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While government computers were crashing, banks, cellphone operators and railroads in Russia were fending off attacks designed to freeze their systems in demand for ransoms to unlock the data.
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Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, and Narendra Modi, his Indian counterpart, are hoping that trade can underpin a broader strategic relationship, aimed in part at fending off China.
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This is because Akzo Nobel awards a foundation, known as stichting, preferred shares which have special voting power and can be effective at fending off challenges from activist shareholders.
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But its residents, intent on fending off the drug scourge and high homicide rate that had infected many areas of Baltimore, joined together to turn their neighborhood's prospects around.
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He's fending off rumors of quitting, defending undersized crowds and promoting polls that show him losing (even in his home state), while also whining about Donald Trump's media coverage.
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Sanders, a progressive senator from neighboring Vermont, prevailed after fending off attacks from rivals who warned his left-wing views would lead the party to defeat in the Nov.
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These exact voters, however, were among the groups who did not back Kemp in his governor's race, which he won by fending off a runoff narrowly by 15,000 votes.
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These exact voters, however, were among the groups who did not back Kemp in his governor's race, which he won by fending off a run-off with 15,000 votes.
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Ms. Park's father, Park Chung-hee, is beloved among older conservatives who credit him with leading the country out of poverty while fending off Communist threats from the North.
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Their concerns were particularly acute because Ukraine is actively fending off Russian aggression from its east and is dependent on the U.S. security assistance that was delayed for weeks.
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" The book, which portrays Mattis fending off capricious demands from Trump and voicing private fears that the president was weakening U.S. national security, will be released Oct. 29. "Mr.
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Or he could team up with the ruling Likud Party, but only if it gets rid of longtime leader Netanyahu, who's fending off a slew of criminal corruption charges.
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And now, just a couple months in, we're seeing one way that could take shape: sexism as a shield, fending off criticism that, on its surface, would seem nongendered.
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The current board members will not run in the upcoming election to avoid wasting building resources fighting over posters and "fending off demonstrably false and disturbing claims," he said.
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On the Democratic side in Nevada, Hillary Clinton has been fending off a stronger-than-expected challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in a state she won in 2008.
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Hansson added that the ECB has been successful so far in fending off the compounding impact of low energy prices on wages and the price of other goods and services.
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Shine sees its ad blocker as a consumer savior, cutting out the immense waste of cell data spent loading clunky ads and fending off the malware sometimes cloaked within them.
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The good news is that the strategies being used in Wynwood may succeed in keeping Zika at bay: monitoring and vector control are key to fending off mosquito-borne diseases.
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Instead of seeking shelter indoors for the next few months, take back control of your summer skin by fending off bites with an army of the best bug-repellant products.
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These attacks occur more frequently during crow's nesting season or during winter, implying that the crows could be preemptively fending off larger potential predators or fighting for resources like food.
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Dr Enard and Dr Petrov therefore wondered whether the bits of Neanderthal DNA which remain in modern Europeans were geared towards fending off infections that spread when the species met.
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There's been backlash in Nebraska to Costco's operations Costco has put its socially-conscious corporate reputation on the line, fending off local critics who have rallied against the Nebraska operation.
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His reappearance fits into a troubling backlash to the anti-harassment movement, as accusers step forward to share their stories and end up fending off lawsuits from their alleged assailants.
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In another bonus for Ferrari, Kimi Raikkonen finished third, fending off Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and leaving the unlucky Australian still searching for a first podium in his home race.
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Many long-term equity investors sleep well, confident in the knowledge that the mature, profitable companies in their portfolios are able to withstand periodic market shocks while fending off competitors.
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Now, however, as the characters are reuniting and gathering in a few places in hopes of fending off the Night King's army, the opening credits are taking a new tack.
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But the clip, which features Wonder Woman rescuing a little girl and fending off gunmen in mall food court, doesn't explain why Wonder Woman 1984 is set in, well, 1984.
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But ISIS has had two years to fortify its defenses, both in Mosul and here in the wider province, in hopes of fending off any attempt to retake the region.
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They got the chance because the SDF had to turn its attention to fending off Turkey, which enabled those sympathetic to the terrorist group to take advantage of the chaos.
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Fending off a rogue and homicidal AI would prove to be stressful on any couple, but instead of melodramatically crumbling, their relationship only gets stronger through this trial-by-fire.
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From the chemical exfoliant celebrating one year of keeping our skin clear to the universal balm that's been fending off chapped lips since day one, check out our recs ahead.
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Churchill spent nearly two years fending off the Nazi menace alone, watching Britain's cities burn in the Blitz, hoping against hope that his American cousins would come to their senses.
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Rival militia ejected Al-Ammu and his followers in fighting two months later, and have since consolidated their position, fending off an attempted comeback by Al Ammu earlier this month.
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Young oversaw a group responsible for fending off these efforts, so he frequently got questions from Kalvert about con artists, cunning new deceits, and other shady corners of the law.
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Swan will be tasked with getting Intel's manufacturing operations back on track and fending off newer chip rivals that are eating into Intel's dominance in personal computers and data centers.
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Although small business may lack the resources and sophistication of larger companies in fending off attacks, that doesn't mean consumers are necessarily safer when they do business with large firms.
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While hospitals and clinics work tirelessly to both prevent and treat substance use disorder, they are simultaneously fending off constant threats of budget cuts and sabotage by the Trump administration.
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Such a decision could have disastrous political ramifications for Trump, who's already fending off accusations that he fired former FBI Director James Comey in order to stifle that same investigation.
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The chief executive of Akzo Nobel NV, the Dutch paint maker, has resigned with immediate effect on health grounds just weeks after fending off a 27-billion-euro takeover attempt.
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Caterine Ibargüen of Colombia leapt 13 meters to snatch a gold medal in the women's triple jump, fending off Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela to continue her dominance in the event.
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Toronto opened its five-game road trip by letting a 19-point lead slip away and briefly trailed in the third quarter before fending off Washington in the final period.
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Name recognition is critical in motivating voters, is the reason candidates spend millions of dollars on TV ads and is a major factor in incumbents' advantage in fending off challengers.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese property magnate Wang Jianlin has defended his crown as the country's richest man, according to the annual Hurun rich list, fending off Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.
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But the company spent 2018 fending off federal regulators, lawmakers and parents who attacked Juul for the soaring rate of vaping and nicotine addiction among teenagers who have never smoked.
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In Brazil, President Michel Temer, having spent the bulk of his political capital this year fending off a corruption trial, is struggling to build support for a pension overhaul bill.
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Defeating the Patriots would pump up the Steelers' playoff chances to 83 percent and their division chances to 78 percent, fending off the Baltimore Ravens for at least another week.
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CVS Health's $69 billion deal to acquire Aetna has forced corporate executives to consider a number of deals as they weigh the best means of fending off their new competitor.
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The hearing comes with the Labor Department already fending off Republican attacks on overtime pay regulations; a new rule for financial advisers; the union persuader rule; and silica exposure limits.
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On the anniversary of the Instagram co-founders quitting, former Facebook employees tell CNBC that the acquisition was originally about fending off competition with Google and Twitter, not Instagram itself.
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Mr. Schmidt won the trust of much of the business community, which was fending off a barrage of cyberattacks but which also feared government intrusion and a damper on innovation.
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And, she spent the past week fending off allegations that her public persona on the #MeToo movement didn't match her private rhetoric as it relates to her own Senate office.
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Affluent people have a new option for fending off the tax man: opportunity zone funds, which were included in the 2255 tax law as a way to help distressed neighborhoods.
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The president, Joel Seligman, who had been fending off calls for his resignation since the harassment allegations became public in August, announced his decision in an email to the university.
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Which may be why the Trump administration chose to send a message now by deploying troops to an undisclosed location in the Middle East, specifically aimed at fending off Iran.
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Trump attacks the FBI and Oprah in a series of tweets over the weekend while U.S. state election officials met in Washington with sessions dedicated to fending off election cyber attacks.
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And Chinese commodity exchanges are fending off one of those increasingly common "flash" money surges from a retail crowd that acts collectively like a giant momentum-chasing black box trading programme.
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Instead, it focuses largely on Parker's attempt to adjust to his newfound powers while also wooing a classmate (Laura Harrier) and fending off an airborne villain named the Vulture (Michael Keaton).
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Thus, the goal of Bioshock is to get through the city, fending off attacks from zombie-esque gene-mod addicts called splicers while encountering some of its crazed and colorful denizens.
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These infections are comparatively rare, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note, but people who have weak immune systems from fending off diabetes or other chronic diseases are more vulnerable.
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Google has been fending off some of the growing legislative and regulatory pushes in the United States and elsewhere to regulate data privacy and other issues core to its business model.
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The EU reformed its rules in the hope they would allow it to keep shielding its markets from cheap Chinese imports while fending off a Chinese legal challenge at the WTO.
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Building on the successes of the original game, Zombie Gunship Survival, a free app, introduces more hooks — such as base-building — to keep you invested in fending off the imminent apocalypse.
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After all, if Democrats did like Clinton, she would have spent the past seven years as President—fending off attacks from an annoying Junior Senator from Illinois for being insufficiently ideological.
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BERLIN, July 27 (Reuters) - German state bank KfW has agreed to take a 20 percent stake in high-voltage energy network operator 50Hertz, fending off an offer from China's State Grid.
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Shell-shocked Lithuania has built a fake village so it can practice fending off any future Russian aggression, and has even reintroduced conscription due to the threat posed by the Kremlin.
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The administration has been fending off questions about a senior aide's attempt to set up a secret back channel of communication with Moscow in the weeks before Trump was took office.
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When the group comes across a meteorite containing the special crystals that will impart them with powers, they begin trying them out, jumping across chasms and fending off bullies at school.
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The social media giants are fending off charges of political bias against conservatives as well as accusations that they continue to allow foreign actors to promote destabilizing propaganda on their platforms.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has won election to the House, easily fending off a challenge from Republican Anthony Pappas in a heavily Democratic district that encompasses parts of Queens and the Bronx.
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Najib has been fending off allegations he was a beneficiary of 1MDB's funds after about $681 million was deposited into his personal bank account just before a general election in 2013.
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In December, the ECB announced that it would extend the duration and range of assets eligible for purchase within its stimulus program aimed at fending off sluggish inflation and lackluster growth.
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Now, Mr. da Silva's handpicked successor, President Dilma Rousseff, is fighting to remain in office, fending off impeachment proceedings on charges of using money from state banks to cover budget shortfalls.
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ChowNow's flagship service offers restaurants a white-label platform that enables restaurants to own their customer data, and feel confident their customers aren't constantly fending off menus and discounts from competitors.
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The United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the outfit that has led Malaysia's ruling coalitions since independence, found religion in the 1980s while fending off a challenge from a pious opposition party.
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We Searcher's cut is higher than other crowdfunding platforms, Johnson says, to offset mounting costs from things such as fending off online attacks and arguments with payment processing companies, Johnson said.
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Shareholders in the Italian broadcaster on Wednesday backed a plan to create a pan-European media group under a new Dutch holding, fending off opposition from its second biggest shareholder Vivendi.
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Shareholders in the Italian broadcaster on Wednesday backed a plan to create a pan-European media group under a new Dutch holding, fending off opposition from its second biggest shareholder Vivendi.
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Others show up in where animals choose to live, their success in fending off predators, or their ability to hunt — or in subtler impacts to mating, reproductive success, and physiological stress.
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Economists stress that while looser financial conditions could help keep markets stable, fiscal stimulus enacted by the president and passed by Congress is essential to fending off job losses and contraction.
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They gave him a folding chair, offered him a cigarette and didn't ask for an ID. Some parts of China have imposed other, often severe policies for fending off the epidemic.
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This season has been a bit of a mess for the Browns (423-413), with Baker Mayfield fending off calls that he is overrated and the defense dealing with numerous injuries.
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The bank raked in nearly $600 million in fees for underwriting three bond deals for 1MDB in 2012 and 2013, which the bank had secured without fending off any rival bids.
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"We are a fending off this economic coup attempt with the wisdom of the Turkish nation and the leadership of our president," Fahrettin Altun, the president's communications director wrote on Twitter.
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The package includes measures such as reconstruction efforts following natural disasters, fending off the risk of an economic slowdown, and investment to sustain economic activity after the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
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To find out he spends weeks at a time fording streams, bushwhacking through dense foliage, pitching camp and fending off insects, then cutting transects, surveying trees, extracting samples and measuring trunks.
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The stock market debut marks the coming of age of the first European company to emerge as a global Internet player capable of fending off rivals among the U.S. internet giants.
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In his new book Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Longer, he shares his go-to practices for fending off aging and feeling your best.
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Trump's appearance at the summit comes at a political flashpoint for both American and Israeli domestic politics as both Trump and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu are fending off scandals at home.
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Both described deep discomfort with the arrangement and worried that Giuliani's freelancing — especially in a country fending off Russian aggression and battling systemic internal corruption — could undermine America's yearslong diplomatic efforts.
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On Tuesday, after fending off Ostapenko, the newly crowned French Open champion, 286-286, 863-286, in Williams' 214th singles match at Wimbledon, Williams was asked what age she feels inside.
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Mr. Trudeau, who is running for re-election this fall, is already fending off a call for his resignation by Mr. Scheer as well as demands for an independent public inquiry.
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For more than an hour he'll tag in and out of various scenarios and characters; one minute he's a selfish suicide-hotline employee, the next he's fending off a knife-throwing rabbit.
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The novels take place in 2025, where society has collapsed with a far-right crusader in the White House, with only small sheltered communities fending off bands of scavengers and violent addicts.
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Prime Minister Najib Razak, who chairs 1MDB's advisory board, has been fending off allegations he was a beneficiary of 1MDB's funds after about $681 million was deposited into his personal bank account.
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It sits within his portfolio of "Living Room" products that Google is relying on to insert itself into our everyday interactions with technology in the home, fending off strong advances from archrivals.
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Demonstrators protesting a proposed extradition bill have been clashing with Hong Kong police, fending off rubber bullets, tear gas and high-pressure water hoses well into Wednesday night, AP and Reuters report.
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Ukraine is still trying to defend itself against Russia's real aggression in the east of the country and Western governments are trying to support it while fending off Russia's disinformation and subversion.
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Though Turkey and the US have a long history of partnership (including years of fending off the Soviets together), Ankara's recent actions have blown a hole in the center of their alliance.
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Jurisdictions like Gibraltar have in the past been fending off accusations of being light-touch regulators in a bid to attract business, but the GFSC said the blockchain law included rigorous requirements.
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That's the recent mindset among corporations and investors alike when it comes to fending off potential intruders — and it's increasingly blurring the lines of how management views the role of activist investors.
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Qualcomm says it is planning to appeal the sanctions, though with the company also fending off a potential hostile takeover from fellow chip maker Broadcom, Qualcomm's resources may be stretched perilously thin.
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Fitbit, meanwhile, is attempting to differentiate its product lines with better functionality to justify its higher pricing, while also fending off threats from Apple Watch which is cornering the luxury wearable space.
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For months, Uber has been fending off fraud allegations related to an investigation into one of its legal opponents, which the company commissioned from a secretive CIA-linked research firm called Ergo.
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It does not help Mr Manafort that he has spent days fending off reports about his time as a highly-paid consultant to a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russia.
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It does not help Mr Manafort that he has spent days fending off reports about his time as a highly paid consultant to a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russia.
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Fending off financial risk is still a difficult task, said the PBOC, adding that it will seek to step up risk controls over property financing, the gold market and commercial bill market.
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Atticus keeps fending off the moral demands of his children, especially Jem, by saying that even the most racist of their neighbors have some good essence beneath the rubble of their wickedness.
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Andy Barr MORE (R-Ky.) is projected to win reelection to Kentucky's 6th District, fending off a strong challenge by Democrats in one of the most hotly contested House races this cycle.
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The American intervention poses significant political risks for Mr. Serraj, who is already fending off accusations from Islamist critics that his unity government is little more than a proxy for Western interests.
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Subprime lender Provident Financial led gainers on the FTSE 250 with a 7% rise as it succeeded in fending off a hostile 1.3 billion pound bid from smaller rival Non-Standard Finance.
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Many of the crowd had bitter words to say about FIFA, soccer's official international governing body, which has been fending off corruption accusations since the 2018 World Cup was awarded to Russia.
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An early March poll found that her national approval rating was 2003 points underwater among registered Democrats, suggesting she'd have had difficulty fending off a primary challenger, let alone winning the general.
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But Mr. Temer, 77, a veteran politician of the center-right, has had a tumultuous presidency, spending much of the past year fending off criminal charges of corruption and obstruction of justice.
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They know that they are unlikely to remain detained if they travel with a child and that they have a better shot at fending off deportation when they come with a child.
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In political terms, no-deal has appeal to Mr Johnson, as the best chance of fending off Nigel Farage's Brexit Party while trying to blame Brussels and Remainer "collaborators" for the mess.
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Unfortunately for Milwaukee, Braun's performance has come during a 23-226 stretch as the club's primary challenge is fending off Cincinnati in the race for the basement of the National League Central.
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It is more rabidly nationalist than Likud, having often led efforts to delegitimise Arab parties, and Mr Lieberman has been fending off accusations of corruption for as long as Mr Netanyahu has.
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The campaigns are all aware of this and spent Saturday and Sunday covering the state, holding dozens of events, fending off pranksters, deploying high-profile surrogates, and, in Sanders's case, holding concerts.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces a daunting challenge as his administration looks to deport Rohingya refugees while fending off international criticism — a balancing act expected to test New Delhi's superpower aims.
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The two leaders plan to meet at the forum in Davos, Switzerland, this month if their schedules permit, the White House announced, just hours after fending off criticism surrounding Trump's planned visit.
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SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May landed in China earlier this week fending off questions about her future amid mounting accusations of poor leadership, boring policies, and weakness over Brexit.
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Czech President Miloš Zeman was elected for a second term Saturday, fending off centrist and pro-EU academic Jiri Drahos in a presidential race that fast became a referendum on Czech identity.
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Photo: GettyFacebook has been fending off accusations of censorship and bias against conservatives over the last year or so and just ahead of the mid-term elections it has made a risky decision.
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Phillips was then taken to the hospital, where she was treated for the bites and claw marks covering her body, as well as a broken finger she sustained fending off the unprovoked attack.
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In her latest adventure, Madea ends up spending her Halloween fending off poltergeists, zombies, killers, and other ghoulish characters, all whilst trying to maintain a close eye on a cluster of mischievous teenagers.
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The challenge for Sanders on Thursday night is to stay on offense and demonstrate that his ideas are the party's future, rather than finding himself on defense, fending off several foes at once.
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He said he would also dip into the I.D.C.'s campaign funds — some $1.2 million as of January — to support Democrats, as well as fending off primary challenges to his fellow I.D.C. alumni.
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GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who won seven of the 11 states on Super Tuesday this week, spent the majority of the night fending off attacks (and serving up some of his own zingers).
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To follow the book's lead, the sequel will hone in on the now-adult Loser's Club fending off the wicked beast when it returns in the present, while flashing back to the past.
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Baldasaro spoke during a news conference earlier this year after Trump invited him to the podium while fending off criticism about his lack of transparency in doling out funds raised for veterans charities.
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While fending off a leadership coup in the summer of 2016, Mr Corbyn took time to attend an event hosted by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, of which he is a long-term supporter.
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Christie is already doing double duty as the chairman of Trump's transition team -- triple duty if you include fending off accusations that he misled the public about his knowledge of the Bridgegate scandal.
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SVG, which is fending off a $1.35 billion bid from U.S. rival HarbourVest, said the consortium's offer represents a 6.8 percent discount to the value of its investment portfolio as of July 31.
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This part of the review will also include a reassessment of how effective the Fed's bond-buying programs were in fending off low inflation and encouraging hiring during and after the Great Recession.
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"We are constantly improving our systems to ensure that we're able to both accommodate the immense volume of trading that occurs on our platform while also fending off sustained DDoS attacks," he said.
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Familiar to investors and seen as a competent economic manager, Herrera must now revive growth while kickstarting flagging investment and fending off downgrades from ratings agencies worried about indebted state-oil company Pemex.
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Anbang and its chairman, Wu Xiaohui, are fending off allegations made by a prominent weekly Chinese magazine looking at the firm's labyrinthine funding and how its assets grew to a whopping $275 billion.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - China's Liu Hong won women's 20km walk final on Friday, fending off Mexico's Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez in a thrilling final kilometer dash to the finish line to snatch gold.
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Subprime lender Provident Financial soared 16.1% on its best day in more than three months as it succeeded in fending off a hostile 1.3 billion pound bid from smaller rival Non-Standard Finance.
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"Justin very graciously introduced Hailey as his wife," organizers for the museum wrote on the facility's official Instagram page, fending off commenters who questioned whether the two stars had really tied the knot.
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McConnell, the Senate Republican leader had already made his choice -- by standing with Trump at a White House news conference last week -- despite his summer of fending off humiliating attacks by the President.
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As a young journalist, and frequently the only woman in the newsroom, her duties included fending off sexual advances without upsetting or embarrassing the men involved lest she doom her own job prospects.
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Indeed, as the morning wore on the success of the process pushed shares in many major banks higher, supporting a recovery for Madrid's stock market and fending off this week's broadly weaker mood.
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For an oil-reliant economy that's in the throes of a prolonged slump in crude prices, combating terrorism and fending off questions about its president's health, Nigeria has managed to defy the odds.
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This month, Mr. Boehner, a cigarette smoker, was appointed to the board of the tobacco giant Reynolds American, which is currently fending off more regulation of the industry, including regulation of e-cigarettes.
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Republican senators up for reelection may be especially keen to avoid a break with the White House on the issue, given how crucial Trump's support can be in fending off a primary challenge.
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Richard A. Pittman, a Marine who earned the Medal of Honor for charging into a North Vietnamese ambush under heavy fire and fending off dozens of enemy troops in 1966, died on Oct.
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The CBIRC said the checks are meant to crack down on lending that has been redirected to the property market, and the inspections are aimed at fending off real estate and financial bubbles.
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ROSWELL, Georgia — Democrat Jon Ossoff has spent much of his campaign for the House fending off the charge that he is an "outsider" and "carpetbagger" who will undermine the traditional culture of Georgia.
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After four grueling hours spent fending off a relentless adversary who refused to submit, Rafael Nadal saw the ball exactly where he wanted it, practically on a platter and ready to be plucked.
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Instead of negotiating deals among the capital's power brokers or fending off FBI investigations, Kasowitz, 2370, built a lucrative practice in civil court suing banks and representing, among others, a leading tobacco company.
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One of her clients, Cairo Amani, said that in the past, she and her nonbinary partner had experienced uncomfortable incidents, from fending off male customers' sexual advances to overhearing crude remarks about women.
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Those initiatives came as Mr. Temer, a deeply unpopular leader, spent enormous political capital fending off the threat of trial on corruption and obstruction of justice charges by persuading lawmakers to block them.
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That's not all: His older brother has gone missing, his parents are squabbling and he's fending off an aid worker who wants to study him for a project called the Teenage Muslim Mind.
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Throughout Hamilton's three books, Roosevelt is the wise and clever sage fending off myopic cabinet secretaries, generals, admirals and colleagues to steer the Allies to victory and the world to a better future.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's prime minister, survived a challenge to his leadership Tuesday, narrowly fending off a more conservative rival after growing speculation that he had lost the support of his party.
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But Lee demurs, the way a novelist might, fending off a critic's attempt to find in his books correlations to actual events, wanting them to stand alone as fully imagined works of art.
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Earlier this month, Google said it will roll out a dashboard-like function in its Chrome browser to offer users more control in fending off tracking cookies, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Moscow says its forces, along with the Syrian army and Iranian-backed militias fighting alongside them, are fending off terror attacks by al Qaeda militants whom they say hit populated, government-held areas.
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But, remember, the U.S. readily allocates money towards dysfunctional, trillion-dollar fighter jet programs and millions on decadent crab dinners — why not instead spend capital fending off the continued destabilization of the climate?
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"I disagree profoundly with what they had to say," said Mr. Johnson, who like Mr. Trump spent much of the day at the U.N. General Assembly fending off the roiling crisis at home.
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"I disagree profoundly with what they had to say," said Mr. Johnson, who, like Mr. Trump, spent much of the day at the U.N. General Assembly fending off a roiling crisis at home.
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Over the decades, Ms. Epstein-Saidiner became involved in Playa del Rey's protests against development, which have run the gamut from protecting the wetlands and beach dunes to fending off large-scale developers.
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LONDON — Eden Hazard ran half the length of the field, fending off brittle resistance, to score a mesmerizing solo goal as host Chelsea coasted to a 3-1 victory against Arsenal on Saturday.
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"Rogue One" once again dominated movie theaters, taking in an estimated $96 million across North America over the four-day Christmas weekend and easily fending off a new batch of star-studded movies.
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Obstruction, on the other hand, is more complicated to explain — and Trump has spent months fending off allegations that he attempted to obstruct the special counsel's probe of his campaign's ties to Russia.
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Mind Senator Amy Klobuchar's nascent campaign is fending off a stream of stories from former staffers that she was a volatile, highhanded boss who often demeaned and humiliated people who worked for her.
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ACICS is also fending off scrutiny from the CFPB, which has sought to compel the accreditor to turn over information about its approval of some of the nation's most controversial for-profit schools.
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That outcome helped Trump upset Clinton in the critical battleground state of Florida, where he won 31 percent of Latino voters, while fending off challenges in border states such as Texas and Arizona.
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The joke came as Mr. Biden was fending off criticism from some Democrats, who worry that the 76-year-old is out of step with the party's current sensibilities around gender and race.
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Mounting a successful test in 2200 would give Blue Origin its best shot at fending off competing rockets and new ones expected to enter the market in the next few years, analysts said.
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The young Florida senator is entering the debate after weeks of fending off attacks on everything from his choice of footwear to his credit cards to his shoddy attendance record in the Senate.
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Hunter, a 49-year-old lawyer, was still fending off interest about his previously romantic relationship with Hallie Biden, the widow of his older brother, Beau Biden, who died from brain cancer in 2015.
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TEGway's software will enable games to recognize when you're plunging through thin ice or fending off dragon fire; an electric current cools or heats the surface of the ThermoReal between 40 and 104 degrees.
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That job will be much more difficult if he is constantly fending off attacks from his own political base -- or if that same base is silent in the face of the Democratic political machine.
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Hundreds of Syrian rebels with weapons and vehicles have re-entered Syria from Turkey over the last week to reinforce insurgents fending off the Kurdish-led assault on Azaz, rebel sources said on Thursday.
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The big picture: The Argentine government is taking drastic steps, including raising interest rates to 60%, with the hope of fending off another crisis in a country that has experienced decades of financial turmoil.
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Following the assassination of her parents and sisters, former gunrunner and smuggler Hail Bristol has returned home to become the Empress of the Indranan Empire, fending off attempts to remove her from the throne.
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Earlier this month, Alphabet Inc's Google said it will roll out a dashboard-like function in its Chrome browser to offer users more control in fending off tracking cookies, according to Wall Street Journal.
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Kane doubled the advantage with 8:23 remaining in the third period after accepting a lead pass from Dylan Strome and fending off Blues defenseman Colton Parayko before backhanding the puck under the crossbar.
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Its creators hope that the bill can make its way through Congress before primary season begins, fending off or at least complicating further attempts by the Russian government to seed divisive political ads online.
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It can be competitive, especially when fending off against rival promotions, but the effort pays off big time when the ultimate goal—to become the top professional wrestling organization in the world—is reached.
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"It was actually a tough race," said Bottas, who went side-by-side with Hamilton on the opening lap and showed plenty of grit and determination in fending off the Briton to hold position.
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For example, after a long day of screaming at Twitter, fielding push notification from Donald Trump, and fending off trolls, I occasionally enjoy sitting back, relaxing, and watching videos of hot knives melting stuff.
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" But what he said next left him fending off charges of sexism: "The only thing I ask Sarah, Sarah if you're watching, I loved the hair and makeup person that we had on Friday.
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It looks gorgeous, but more importantly, the movie seems to have a really interesting twist on the old "alien visitor" story, making it more about coming to an understanding than fending off a war.
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Editorial New York State financial regulators have done a good job of fending off online lenders who try to illegally saddle New Yorkers with loans that can carry annual interest rates of 1,000 percent.
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West's version of Batman was forced into repeatedly laughable imbroglios, which included him fending off sharks, running with lit bombs and walking along the sides of tall buildings engaged in full conversations with Robin.
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Ms. Boshko, who said she was given a large pay increase to leave one of Mr. Koch's companies to join Oxbridge, said she had been demoted after fending off Mr. Parsons' advances for months.
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The ECB, aiming for more growth and an inflation figure of just under 2 percent, is currently fending off questions about when it will end its 2.5 trillion euro ($3 trillion) asset-purchasing scheme.
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In 1994, Mr. Clinton was fending off accusations that he had sexually harassed Paula Corbin Jones, and that he had his aides cast her account as a lie when they denied the incident occurred.
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Clinton, who is fending off a challenge from U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, is fresh off a victory in the Nevada primary and the two will face off in South Carolina on Saturday.
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While Blazer was cooking up schemes and fending off Singer, what would become his unimaginably lucrative future was taking baby steps at a most unlikely place: on the green soccer fields of New Rochelle.
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Especially at the beginning of a program, better to keep the focus on you and not waste energy fending off pals who may try to convince you that you don't have a drinking problem.
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Cuomo, who has fashioned himself as a potential presidential candidate, is fending off a Democratic primary challenge in his quest for a third term in Albany from actress Cynthia Nixon, a public schools activist.
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Grabbing a gas mask off the ground and attaching it to your face, fending off a headcrab with a trash can lid, throwing a brick to stagger a zombie, it's all possible with Russell.
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Since then, Mr. Temer has spent much of his political capital fending off accusations of corruption and obstruction of justice stemming from the wide-ranging graft scandal known as Lava Jato, or Car Wash.
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Soon after, Ms. Gopalan filed a lawsuit challenging Section 2377, fending off death threats until 20093, when a high court in New Delhi ruled that the law could not be applied to consensual sex.
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The agreement reached on Monday means the new sanctions are set to land on Mr. Trump's desk just as his administration is fending off investigations into possible collusion with Russian officials during the campaign.
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Negga throws herself into a sprawl across Claudius's throne, climbs into Ophelia's lap, twists her limbs like she's fending off demonic possession as she crab-walks her way in front of a sanctimonious Polonius.
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Having exchanged breaks in the first three games of the semi-final, Kvitova settled down to build a 3-1 lead before fending off a couple of break points to claim the opening set.
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In the past year, Huawei had been fending off claims by the United States government that it is secretive and unreliable and that it spies for Beijing, an allegation the company has repeatedly denied.
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Rather, the former employees argue, Facebook at the time was much smaller and fending off what threatened to be fierce competition from Twitter, which had already bid for Instagram, and Google's new social network.
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Mr. Rouhani, fending off domestic critics, pointed out to his audience that Iran was now able to sell $70 billion worth of oil until the end of the Iranian calendar year, on March 20.
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The Packers are now in pole position in the race for the NFC North, but can't let off the gas one bit, as they are still fending off a strong effort from the Vikings.
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Kent recalled Republican senators "who had traveled to Ukraine from the relevant committees" getting involved, presumably because they were aware of the importance of the aid to fending off Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine.
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The beanery, named Philip's after Mr. Pilmar's son, helped King Office Supply stand out from other midtown Manhattan office supply stores and aided Mr. Pilmar's business in fending off competition from encroaching national chains.
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The bill has a purpose section and it says that gun companies should be protected, and that they shouldn't have to spend money fending off frivolous lawsuit, and that the Second Amendment is sacred.
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Although Mr. Obama still hopes that Congress will approve his Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, he has spent much of his second term using his executive authority and fending off Republican attempts to thwart him.
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"Keeping the volume high on popular progressive ides gets Clinton a two-fer, bringing Sanders supporters along for the ride while fending off Donald Trump's attempt to woo swing voters with his faux economic populism."
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After fending off 2015 merger overtures by Fiat Chrysler with support from her board, GM boss Mary Barra agreed to target a 20 percent return on invested capital and pay out more cash to shareholders.
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ISIS finds itself fending off enemies in all directions, over an area of several hundred square kilometers, much of it open land where the movement of any sizable reinforcements would be vulnerable to air attack.
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The delay could further heighten scrutiny of EPA, already fending off complaints that it and the White House considered blocking a study on water contamination by PFOA and PFOS, chemicals used in Teflon and firefighting.
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The State Council Financial Stability and Development Commission held a special meeting on Saturday led by Vice Premier Liu He to discuss fending off financial risks, according to a statement published by the State Council.
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When we're not being preventative with night creams, fending off dark circles with eye patches, or sudsing the life out of our hair until it looks brand-new again, we're looking for something more satisfying.
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T-Mobile US on Thursday beat analysts' estimates for second-quarter net new phone subscribers who pay a monthly bill, boosted by the U.S. mobile carrier's wireless plans aimed at fending off its bigger rivals.
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In other words, opponents of cuts always think they can get away with fending off budget threats by putting a proverbial gun to the head of the most needed and justified parts of those programs.
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The party wants to ensure that Estes keeps the Wichita-area 2023th Congressional District in GOP hands by fending off what would be a major upset by Democratic nominee James Thompson in the conservative district.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Europe opened a commanding 217-224.5 lead after Saturday's Ryder Cup fourballs with Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia fending off a thrilling American fightback to lead another home onslaught around Le Golf National.
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While companies worry about competition within the industry, the Philippines is fending off cheaper labor in India and Vietnam, and agents in urban centers fear wage depression because of new call centers in the countryside.
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Deadly storms across Italy have brought Venice face-to-face with one of the city's worst floods in at least a decade — leaving residents, store owners, and tourists alike fending off knee-high flood water.
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Republicans have been fending off criticism from fiscal hawks for passing a $1.5 trillion tax cut late last year and following it up with a $1.3 trillion government spending deal with Democrats signed last month.
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In their narrative, Trump is a besieged president, fending off a "deep state" conspiracy led by holdovers from President Barack Obama's administration, who are spreading lies that are eagerly echoed by the "Fake News" media.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Amid a rising babble of advice from European neighbors on how to handle Catalonia, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy might pay attention to one country that knows something about fending off separation — Belgium.
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For the past year, the San Francisco socialite has been fending off those who would like to see her forced out of the museums she has lavished with her time and money for two decades.
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After fending off charges of anti-competitive behaviour for many years, the Silicon Valley company has since 2014 seen the tide swing against it in antitrust cases put forward by a growing number of governments.
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CVS Health will acquire Aetna for roughly $69 billion in cash and stock in a first-of-its kind deal aimed at fending off challenges in retail and health care, the companies announced on Sunday.
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TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared set to win a second term in Canada's national elections Monday, seemingly fending off a challenge from rival Conservatives despite having been weakened by a series of scandals.
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"Touching her breasts, he shut off the camera," said Mr. Mariani, who said that the device continued to record audio, and that Ms. Cortani could be heard fending off Mr. Tavecchio's advances and slipping away.
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Newman is expected to coast to a general election victory in the race for the safe blue seat — after fending off his primary challenge in 2018, Lipinski won reelection by nearly 85033 points that year.
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ProPublica highlighted two op-eds Grenell wrote in 2016 in which he defended his alleged client Vladimir Plahotniuc, who was fending off corruption allegations and trying to improve his image with a visit to Washington.
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The company, which provides credit to people who do not meet the lending criteria of mainstream banks, has been growing its customer numbers since fending off smaller rival Non-Standard Finance's takeover bid last year.
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Her lone defeat since the U.S. Open came against second-ranked Karolina Pliskova in the Brisbane semifinals earlier this month, a match Pliskova won in three sets after fending off a match point for Osaka.
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Ralph Northam (D) won the Virginia governor's race in a blowout Tuesday, fending off a potential gut punch for his party and giving Democrats a badly needed jolt of momentum ahead of the 22019 midterms.
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Hundreds of allied troops — including American soldiers with faces painted in green and black camouflage — and their 8003-ton tanks crossed the Danube River on temporary bridges, fending off mock attacks on the other side.
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But, while most of his primary opponents ran on more familiar limited-government themes, and Hillary Clinton was fending off the attack from Sanders, Trump figured out that a Republican could run against Wall Street.
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On Pro Basketball INDIANAPOLIS — Thaddeus Young, with the ball and an open court ahead of him, was focused on fending off the Cleveland Cavaliers' J. R. Smith and extending to the rim for a layup.
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Analysts said the ruling took some political pressure off Mr. Sharif, who has spent most of his term fending off the political onslaught from Mr. Khan, as well as pressure from the country's powerful military.
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These are deeply depressing times for moderate conservatives who are donating their time and money and shredded nerves to fending off the takeover of the Republican Party by far-right elements and non-ideological egomania.
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PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi will step down after 12 years leading the food and beverage giant, ending a tenure marked by efforts to adapt to changing consumer tastes and fending off pressure from activist investors.
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But Kondik said "what pushed it over the edge" was a new report this week that the National Republican Campaign Committee is going to be pouring vast resources into fending off the challenge Ossoff poses.
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"We're competing really well," he said, citing as an example the company's nearly $1 billion winning bid for the rights to India's cricket league, successfully fending off interest from potential internet rivals Facebook and Google.
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Both of these games can be integrated with each other, so you could play as humans in Alien also fending off Predators (no fair), or you could play as Predators in Predator hunting for Xenomorphs.
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But the obvious play is to use Pandora's digital reach to both market Sirius's existing service and to eventually migrate some Sirius customers there — while fending off competition from the Apples and Spotifys of the world.
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The third-seeded American was the sharper of the pair at the outset, firing nine winners and fending off Azarenka's lone break-point opportunity to take the first set in a little over half an hour.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank said on Thursday it will issue a three-year development plan for the country's financial technology (fintech) sector, in a move to support the fast-growing industry while fending off risks.
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Coyotes captain Oliver Ekman-Larsson's shot from the point handcuffed Dubnyk, allowing Galchenyuk to poke home the loose puck while fending off Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon to open the scoring 7:48 into the first period.
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The move is a shrewd one for an industry that has been on the defensive for years on climate issues, constantly fending off attacks that its products have contributed to an unhealthy rise in global temperatures.
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In general, plants increase production of salicylic acid when faced with pathogens that feed on living tissue and do likewise with jasmonic acid when fending off agents that kill the tissue first, before feeding on it.
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S-400 missiles, which Turkey began taking delivery of last Friday, would be better at fending off any attack on the Turkish government from its own jets than a U.S.-supplied Patriot system would, experts say.
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The White House spent last week fending off unflattering critiques of Trump's first three months in the Oval Office, claiming he had racked up great achievements while also dismissing what it sees as an artificial milestone.
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Evergrande's purchase in August of $2.2 billion worth of Vanke shares put it at the heart of a corporate battle as Vanke was fending off a potential bid from financial firm Baoneng Group, its biggest shareholder.
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S-400 missiles, which Turkey began taking delivery of last Friday, would be better at fending off any attack on the Turkish government from its own jets than a US-supplied Patriot system would, experts say.
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"As I saw firsthand, dealing with cyberattacks is the new normal when running for office, forcing candidates to spend time fending off those attacks when they should be out talking to voters," Caforio told the magazine.
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"As I saw firsthand, dealing with cyberattacks is the new normal when running for office, forcing candidates to spend time fending off those attacks when they should be out talking to voters," Caforio told the magazine.
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Rebels who previously struggled to make gains against Islamic State in the area and had been fending off advances in recent weeks by Kurdish-led fighters mobilised several thousand fighters for the attack, rebel sources said.
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The play stars the cutie-pie Jesse Tyler Ferguson (best known for ABC's "Modern Family") as an out-of-work actor who takes reservations at an impossibly chic bistro, fending off peeved customers and demanding colleagues.
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They say they are waiting for the right occasion to bring a court challenge to these bans, which affect relatively few women, and that fending off the regulations that closed down clinics was a higher priority.
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"Views" — Drake's fourth solo album, not counting umpteen mixtapes and other ephemera — finds him a conqueror between territories: fending off attacks from below, maintaining his grip on turf he controls and wondering what might be next.
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Sunday was another blow, with Bottas fending off his team mate with some thrilling racing in the early stages and then pitting three laps before the safety car was deployed with Hamilton yet to come in.
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For 20 minutes, Wright, who had surgery on Tuesday to repair his right rotator cuff, explained to the news media that he was determined to try to play again for the Mets, fending off gloomy questions.
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Tens of thousands have died in the nearly five-year conflict, around two and a half million have fled to neighboring countries, and millions more have been left fending off starvation in South Sudan's devastated economy.
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Local governments and state organizations should find a balance between stabilizing growth and fending off risks, controlling the pace and intensity of such policies, Xi said in remarks during a meeting with provincial and department officials.
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But with officials in Brussels absorbed in fending off threats from nationalists within the bloc, the European Union's chief interest in the Balkans appears to be stability, even at the cost of democratic institutions, critics say.
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He survived to fight on for the Democratic nomination, delivering a far steadier performance than in the first debate but he spent most of the night fending off attacks from nearly every one of his rivals.
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She, of course, has many projects, including overseeing her cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and being a contributor to "CBS Sunday Morning" (in addition to fending off persistent rumors about running for president in 2020).
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Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Senate hoped to vote on Wednesday on a $2 trillion emergency package but found themselves fending off critics from the right and left who threatened to hold up the bill.
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Andy Muschietti's adaptation of Stephen King's 1986 novel about a group of kids fending off a killer clown layers generous scoops of action atop a base of jump scares — with a sprinkling of late-'80s nostalgia.
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Spot the robot dog trots into the big, bad world You've probably seen the videos of Boston Dynamics' incredible (and creepy) robot dog Spot opening doors, trotting in parking lots, and fending off stick-wielding humans.
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The low-budget horror film about a group of college students fending off a supernatural force rounded out the top five, earning a healthy $15.3 million, well above projections that had it opening to $10 million.
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Baffert made good on his promise Saturday as Justify looked no worse for the wear while fending off his competition in front of an announced crowd of 134,487, more than the 131,680 that watched American Pharoah.
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President Xi Jinping said this week that China must be on guard against "black swan" risks, meaning unforeseen events that have extreme consequences, while fending off so-called "grey rhino" events - obvious threats that go ignored.
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Warren collapsed in the latest national Quinnipiac University poll just as she's been diving into the details of how she'd pass Medicare for All — and fending off a barrage of attacks from her more moderate rivals.
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It's an odd and particularly British law that goes back centuries, and whose perpetuation, beyond giving us highly amusing stories about desperate Brits fending off swans with squirt guns, hints at some deeper issues as well.
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It bought Canada's Viterra in 2012 in one of the biggest grain deals of recent years, fending off interest from ADM, although moves on three or four smaller targets in the grain sector last year were unsuccessful.
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Even as he was fending off accusations of getting sweetheart deals from the French government to build Cité du Cinéma, he was writing and producing (though not directing) lucrative television and movie franchises like Taken and Transporter.
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Deliveroo has had more success at fending off employment classification challenges — although last month the UK High Court granted a union permission to challenge the company's opposition to collective bargaining for its couriers on human rights grounds.
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This standalone series is skipping most of the game's story to only adapt its seventh chapter, where you're sent back to ancient Babylonia during the reign of King Gilgamesh, who's fending off an invasion of strange demons.
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Hewitt, New Jersey resident Mark Stinziano posted a cheer-worthy video to Facebook earlier this week, which revealed his neighbor's dog, Riley, fending off a giant black bear that was prowling around the side of his house.
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The BBSW dispute has been one of several scandals engulfing the Australian banking sector which has been fending off calls for a powerful parliamentary inquiry amid accusations of widespread abuses at their financial advice and insurance units.
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Fending off drowsiness with Red Bull and Katy Perry songs, they are racing through a mind-muddying 55 events, from Dubuque in the northeast to Council Bluffs in the southwest, in a blur of speeches and handshakes.
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The paper said the activist investment firm sent Perrigo a letter over the weekend saying it had failed to achieve performance targets and that it had been distracted fending off a takeover bid from Mylan in 2015.
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After fending off the takeover bid and the dismal share performance, Kessler is now struggling to convince investors that he can oversee a rise in the value of Scor, which holds its annual shareholders meeting in April.
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Quoc Le, left, a Google researcher who led the AutoML project, with colleagues Ming Chen and Yifeng Lu. Mark Peng and Erkut Aykutlug, center, won the contest, fending off a challenge from AI software developed at Google.
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Bunnings has posted double-digit growth for the past two quarters, easily fending off a challenge from would-be rival Masters, a short-lived joint-venture between Australia's Woolworths Group Ltd and U.S.-based Lowe's Companies Inc.
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The 300-page book, titled "Out of the Desert" and published by Portfolio Penguin, describes the battles waged by the influential industry veteran including fending off Western attempts to gain control of oil giant Aramco's best assets.
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An obituary on Sunday about Richard A. Pittman, who earned the Medal of Honor for fending off an ambush under heavy fire in Vietnam, misstated part of the designation of the Marine unit in which he served.
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He will go to the polls — it's his civic duty — to back his party in down-ballot races; Senator Rob Portman, a Republican, is fending off a challenge from Ted Strickland, a Democrat and former governor. Mrs.
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He has spent the second half of his first term bogged down in internecine fights with the governor, battling with and lecturing the press, and fending off federal and state pay-to-play investigations involving his donors.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Belinda Bencic reached her first-ever Grand Slam semi-final on Wednesday, fending off Donna Vekic to win 7-6(5) 6-3 in their U.S. Open last-eight clash on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China must be on guard against "black swan" risks while fending off "gray rhino" events, President Xi Jinping said on Monday, adding that the economy faces deep and complicated changes, state news agency Xinhua reported.
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The top moderate in the race, Mr. Biden, spent most of the debate fending off attacks from his left without offering a real critique of Mr. Sanders and others proposing eliminating private insurance markets, among other ideas.
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But it's hard to imagine any other sort of approach, which is why any successor to Netanyahu will have to pursue essentially identical policies — policies whose chief art will consist in fending off false promises of salvation.
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The reprieve is a blessing for Biden: Rather than spending valuable time fending off an assault, he is free to present himself as a steady leader amid a national crisis and to regroup for the general election.
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And then there's the "wartime" CEO, who steers the company when it is fending off an existential threat, be it competition, market change, or a "dramatic macro economic change," much like the coronavirus pandemic threatens to force.
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Until his idea comes to fruition, you'll need to make your own way in the retirement savings world, whether by lobbying your employer for a better plan or fending off people who are peddling questionable investment strategies.
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The lyrics of "Adore You" and "Watermelon Sugar" conjure images of summer fruits and summer loves, and both songs set the perfect soundtrack for encountering a crush at a party, or at least fending off seasonal depression.
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Governor Lesetja Kganyago told reporters the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was aiming to anchor inflation expectations near the midpoint of its 22019 to 25.4 percent target range while fending off calls to ease rates to boost growth.
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After a summer dip, consumer spending has roared back to life heading into the holiday shopping season, giving the stock market a boost and fending off recession fears with less than a year until the 2628 elections.
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But a series of questionable episodes just three weeks into his term has left Mr. Bolsonaro, who rode to power by denouncing elitist privilege, fending off charges that his administration is engaging in more of the same.
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When tasked with the idea of fending off bad hair smells post-Korean barbecue, Dr. Fusco recommends blasting your hair with cold air to aerate the area — the same way a brisk breeze will freshen up a room.
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The Silicon Valley startup has raised $87 million raised in total over the last five years after bootstrapping for the first three of its existence, and fending off a number of acquisition approaches from some high-profile suitors.
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In the classic Western, a man went West to ratify his manhood by conquering the land and the Natives who lived there, all while fending off "civilizing" influences, whether in the form of women, religion, schooling, or fences.
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Fernandez faces a major challenge to revive Argentina's economy, mired in recession for much of the last year, while fending off a rising mountain of debt payments amid concerns the country may be forced into a damaging default.
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Mr Ortega is no stranger to unrest: he led a left-wing revolution in the 1970s against the kleptocratic dictatorship of the Somoza family, and spent much of the next decade as president fending off American-backed insurgents.
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But he also seems to be concerned with fending off a rival for the nationalist vote, Meral Aksener, who split from his party and formed her own party, the Good Party, last year, according to Turkish media reports.
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Durant, Warriors hold off Jazz rally SALT LAKE CITY — After doing everything imaginable on offense in the first half, the Golden State Warriors suddenly found themselves fending off a revived Utah Jazz offense in the fourth quarter Thursday.
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She discovers that her adopted father moonlights as a bounty hunter, and joins him in his work, learning about her lost past in the process, and fending off attackers who know more about her history than she does.
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Andrew Cuomo has raced out to a 269-point lead over his progressive primary challenger, Cynthia Nixon, according to a new poll -- welcome news to his campaign after a day spent fending off criticism over its fundraising tactics.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Sunday about Richard A. Pittman, who earned the Medal of Honor for fending off an ambush under heavy fire in Vietnam, misstated part of the designation of the Marine unit in which he served.
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"I've worked with wearable technology for many years, but this felt the closest yet to a real product that might find life for itself beyond a collection," he said, fending off kisses from hordes of friends and admirers.
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It's a debate that has for too long blocked the progressive agenda and led candidates with perfectly reasonable proposals to needlessly tie themselves up in knots fending off an attack that is long past its sell-by date.
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The last time Chief Justice John Roberts took it upon himself to write the opinion fending off a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, he seemed to signal that he was done entertaining existential threats to the law.
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Wolfe argues that chemical and seed companies could be persuaded to fund butterfly conservation this way — in the hopes of fending off an Endangered Species Act listing that leads to more heavy-handed regulation from the federal government.
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Republicans maintained control of the Senate on Tuesday, fending off numerous Democratic challengers who polls showed were leading going into Election Day, as incumbents were pulled along by Donald J. Trump's unanticipated strength in several key battleground states.
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Mr. Turnbull, whose popularity has been sagging over domestic issues, struggled on Thursday to cast the call in a positive light, fending off demands from the opposition Labor Party that he detail exactly what Mr. Trump had said.
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It said the Bavarian premier, who is fending off calls for his own resignation, said the two parties faced their biggest challenge since 1976 - when his predecessor, Franz-Josef Strauss, threatened for weeks to break up the alliance.
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Both officials also offered high-level insight into the confusion and alarm within the U.S. national security apparatus that followed Trump's abrupt decision to freeze U.S. military aid to Ukraine, a key U.S. ally fending off Russian aggression.
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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. has spent years fending off protests and calls to resign over his handling of rich and powerful men accused of sex crimes — including Harvey Weinstein, who Vance declined to prosecute in 2015.
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And the CEO of the Year is... If you're Targe, (TGT) you face two major challenges: Fending off competition from Amazon and Walmart, and appealing to consumers who have swapped shopping trips for spending sprees on their phones.
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Martha McSally will win the Republican Senate nomination in Arizona, CNN projects, fending off a challenge from two hard-line conservatives and providing ambitious moderates in the GOP ranks a playbook to thrive in the Donald Trump era.
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Polls show the anti-establishment Pirate Party in the lead if a new election is called in the country of 153,000 people, a result with potentially wider impact across Europe where mainstream political parties are fending off populists.
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And perhaps most of all, it works to own the elusive quality of "authenticity," especially in fending off potential rivals for moderate votes like South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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The agency said in a release Wednesday that "staff was up all night last night fending off denial of service attacks from Korea" and cited Korean social media posts calling others to bring down the ratings agency's website.
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As the car companies rebounded during the recovery, and car sales began to break records, the past few years brought a more upbeat approach and focus on fending off the rise of tech companies in the car space.
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The short film sees Talion — the main protagonist in the Middle-earth games — fighting his way at the head of an army of orcs, storming a fortress while fending off attacks from enemy warriors, drakes, and huge hulking trolls.
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Subprime lender Provident Financial led gainers with a 10% rise, on track for its best day in more than three months, as it succeeded in fending off a hostile 1.3 billion pound bid from smaller rival Non-Standard Finance.
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And he might mention some of the remaining items on his climate change to-do list, which include setting new emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks and fending off Republican attacks on his new regulations restricting power plant emissions.
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The euro rose 1.2 percent overnight as exit polls showed Rutte fending off Wilders anti-Islam and anti-EU party, easing worries about the progress of right wing populists across the euro zone, many of whom oppose euro membership.
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Durov has spent years fending off intrusions into his users' communications, forging an uncompromising stance on privacy after founding popular site VKontakte, Russia's answer to Facebook, then losing control of it for refusing Russian government demands to block dissidents.
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The FCA is already fending off pressure for a tit-for-tat response to moves by EU regulators to ban trading of thousands of shares outside the bloc - including leading UK stocks - if there is a no-deal Brexit.
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On the campaign trail, Clinton has been fending off insinuations from Sanders that she is too close to Wall Street, and denying that campaign contributions and paid speaking fees from Wall Street have influenced her positions on the industry.
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How do you balance legitimate security concerns versus the perception and reality that fending off Chinese competition is protectionism and we're not actually trying to worry about our security, we're just trying to keep competitors out of the country?
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At a caucus site in the college town of Grinnell, even confirmed Clinton supporters admitted that the hardest task was to convince fellow-Iowans that they could trust her, after she has spent years fending off allegations of dishonesty.
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It quoted the Bavarian premier, who is fending off calls for his own resignation, as saying the two parties faced their biggest challenge since 1976 - when his predecessor Franz-Josef Strauss threatened for weeks to break up the alliance.
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They played 25 of a possible 28 games, surviving Game 7s with the Washington Capitals and Ottawa Senators before fending off the Predators in a series that mostly lived up to expectations in spite of largely lopsided final scores.
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Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) is projected to win Mississippi's Senate runoff, fending off a stronger-than-expected challenge from Democrats after she stumbled with a series of missteps that brought the race to the forefront of the campaign.
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PHOENIX — Senator John McCain on Tuesday survived one of the most bruising election seasons of his long political career, fending off a challenge from his Democratic rival, Representative Ann Kirkpatrick, to secure a sixth term representing Arizona in Washington.
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The high court on Friday granted certiorari in the case of Supap Kirtsaeng, represented by Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, who said he'd been unfairly denied fees solely because of where the case was heard, despite fending off Wiley's copyright claims.
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"A lot of attention was paid to fending off a U.S. aerospace operation, shooting down cruise missiles, getting ships out to sea while under incoming missile fire and concealment of moving forces to avoid getting hit," Mr. Kofman said.
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Just before Christmas there was still a two-hour wait for a table at the Spotted Pig, where many employees told The New York Times that part of the job was fending off Ken Friedman, one of the owners.
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Long in the business of discovering and fending off hacking attempts and all sorts of malware, security companies have expanded their focus to the disinformation campaigns that have plagued Facebook and other social media for the past few years.
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From a cramped one-room apartment, Mr. Shafiq explained the hazards of the job — including fending off those evil spirits, a headless man and a beautiful vampire — as he sat on the floor, the walls painted a bubblegum pink.
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She refuses to sanctify this latest attack on the president by taking a floor vote on the measure, but vouches for its importance, all the while fending off critics who say Congress is not producing for the American people.
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Job growth plummeted in March after spiking in February, the government reported Friday, delivering more bad news for a White House that spent this week fending off retaliatory tariffs from China and an escalating scandal surrounding its EPA administrator.
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And the fast-rising Scottish actor James McArdle, playing the eponymous social gadfly at the frantic center of Chekhov's early play "Platonov," exhibited charm to spare as a libidinous schoolmaster who finds himself fending off women at every turn.
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But YouTube has also spent the last year fending off a series of controversies about inappropriate content on the site, and is trying to convince marketers that the site is a safe place for them to run their ads.
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They're angry about the delay after they spent the past year fending off criticism in their districts from Vice President Mike Pence, Republicans and business groups that they were part of the House Democratic majority holding up the USMCA.
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He ran around the left side of the offensive line and sprinted down the sideline, fending off a would-be tackler for the final 10 yards to mark the longest run in the history of the Camping World Bowl.
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"They could overcome neither Fidel, nor the people of Cuba nor the dreams and hopes of this great nation," Maduro said in a tribute, chanting a refrain about the iconic revolutionary fending off imperialists that the crowd then finished.
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" (Heard on the Street) • Robert Cyran writes, "With more than $20 billion of debt on its books, and another $49 billion lined up for the deal, CVS may find fending off Amazon puts its own financial health at risk.
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Today on Waypoint Radio, Austin, Danika, Patrick and myself recounted our stories of weekend triumph and tragedy, fending off creatures in Hunt: Showdown, wrecking Anjanaths and dragons in Monster Hunter World, playing BioShock again and eagerly awaiting Prey DLC.
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But YouTube has also spent the last year fending off a series of controversies about inappropriate content on the site and is trying to convince marketers that the site is a safe place for them to run their ads.
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For Dimon, who oversees the largest U.S. bank by assets, technology upgrades are critical to fending off competition from agile consumer-friendly upstarts who are winning with millennials and to addressing the constant and evolving risks associated with fraud and cybersecurity.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's top Supreme Court lawyer is leaving office at the end of June having won a string of major cases including fending off challenges to President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law and legalizing same-sex marriage.
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Since the September 11th attacks, the American far right has developed a fascination with the Middle Ages and the Renaissance—in particular, with the idea of the West as a united civilisation that was fending off a challenge from the East.
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Trump repeatedly insists he could be "the most presidential candidate in history other than honest Abe Lincoln," but that he is loathe to do away with his brass-knuckle style of political fighting while he is still fending off primary challenges.
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Tesla has been adjusting prices of its U.S.-made cars in China to remain affordable in the country, a move also aimed at fending off competition from a swathe of domestic EV startups such as Nio Inc, Byton and XPeng Motors.
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Kevin Spacey's alleged unwanted sexual advances toward young male actors was "common" practice during his 12-year-run as artistic director at The Old Vic Theatre, actor Roberto Cavazos claimed Tuesday while recounting his own alleged experience fending off Spacey.
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Hampered by a number of surgeries on her right shoulder since 2009, Sharapova's serve has rarely proved the difference in tight matches but her 21 aces were vital in fending off 12th seed Bencic, touted as a future grand slam winner.
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Once he's released from the hospital, Harrouff will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder as well as attempted first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing the couple's neighbor, 47-year-old Jeff Fisher, who tried fending off their attacker.
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The U.S. narrative is fraught with challenges, including losing hit shows such as "The Office" and "Friends" in the coming years and fending off a slew of new streaming content from competitors such as Disney, Apple and AT&T's WarnerMedia.
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The president-elect faces a major challenge to revive Argentina's economy, mired in recession for much of the last year, while fending off a rising mountain of debt payments amid concerns the country may be forced into a damaging default.
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The 55-year-old Frenchman is likely to press on with cutting the workforce and weeding out shoddy component suppliers, albeit at a slower place than the last chief, while fending off those who want to keep the status quo.
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Kurdish YPG militias have taken advantage of the rebels' preoccupation with fending off the Russian-backed Syrian army offensive launched last week in the northern Aleppo countryside to gain ground near an important border crossing with Turkey, the Syrian insurgents say.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May narrowly avoided a defeat in parliament at the hands of pro-EU lawmakers from her own party on Tuesday, fending off a rebellion that had threatened to deepen a crisis over her Brexit strategy.
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The governor, a second-term Democrat facing re-election in the fall, has been aggressive in fending off Ms. Nixon's unexpectedly vigorous primary challenge, which was announced in mid-March, and has since garnered endorsements from a handful of liberal groups.
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Three episodes of In Living Color followed—including one disturbing "Home Alone Again" sketch in which he played Macaulay Culkin fending off an intruding Michael Jackson—before he scored his career-making gig as Randy Taylor on Home Improvement in 20163.
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The social network's top brass has used this antiseptic approach before, during the campaign around Lean In, the self-help book for working women written by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who is fending off her own rumors about running for president.
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A January presentation released by producer Canadian Oil Sands Ltd, which is fending off a hostile takeover bid from competitor Suncor Energy, showed the average breakeven U.S. crude price at 10 of the biggest oil sands projects is $41 a barrel.
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We're told at one point that Sara is particularly at risk because "she has sadness inside her" (spoiler alert: this isn't her first brush with a suicidal family member), but we mostly see her fending off negative forces, not creating them.
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But somehow, a jogger managed to survive just that attack on Monday, fending off a mountain lion with his bare hands until, eventually, he killed it—and no one knows exactly how he pulled it off, the Denver Post reports.
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Abbott's overarching issue is fending off the malevolent influence of California, which is widely seen as Texas's political antithesis: it is more regulated and highly taxed, whereas Texas is relatively unfettered, with one of the lowest tax burdens in the country.
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In August, the Xicheng District People's Court in Beijing ruled that a historian, Hong Zhenkuai, had defamed five Communist soldiers who, while fending off the Japanese invaders in 1941, leapt from a mountain — three to their deaths — rather than surrender.
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For the many Republicans in districts considered safely red, the preferred vehicles for fending off primary challenges from the right tend to be appropriations bills, which often pass with little Democratic support and contain provisions to please very conservative voters.
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Whether fending off a bully, chatting with his therapist or living by the rules he's set for himself to avoid his darkest impulses, John confounds his mother (Laura Fraser) but has a good relationship with a neighbor, Mr. Crowley (Christopher Lloyd).
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But for the last few days, he has stood at a wooden dock in an ornate courtroom here, fending off questions about inheritance taxes and a maze of financial trusts that a French judge described as part of the family's DNA.
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Trump's lawyers are leaning on those same arguments as they try to block similar document requests from Congress, suggesting the president is likely to face an uphill battle fending off congressional subpoenas such as the one seeking the president's tax returns.
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By last week, at the grand opening of his 8,000-square-foot campaign headquarters in a Rockville, Md., strip mall just outside the Beltway, the wine magnate was fending off comparisons to another candidate whose initials are D.J.T.: Donald J. Trump.
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In a New York Times article, he once described having to close the flower shop early because of a water main break; in a later article, his father described fending off people who wanted to use his flower pots as toilets.
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At the end, though, the results will either give a boost to those who see a blue wave coming, or signal to Republicans that using Trump — and turning up the base — could be key to fending off Democrats in the fall.
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Its top candidate in regional elections in Lower Austria held last Sunday had been fending off a scandal after a newspaper revealed that a fraternity that he used to help lead had distributed a songbook that joked about killing Jews.
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For months, Mr. de Blasio has been caught in a web of his own making, fending off questions about how a commission he created to evaluate "all symbols of hate" would rule on the future of monuments across New York City.
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Moscow says its forces and the Syrian army are fending off terror attacks by al Qaeda militants whom they say hit populated, government-held areas, and it accuses rebels of wrecking a ceasefire deal agreed last year between Turkey and Russia.
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WASHINGTON — Christopher A. Wray, the director of the F.B.I., defended his work force on Thursday in a politically charged hearing on Capitol Hill, rebutting President Trump's accusation that the bureau was in "tatters" and fending off attacks from Republicans on personnel.
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Mr. Cox, who had been party chair since 2009, had been fending off rumors about his position since last fall's election debacle, though he had publicly committed to staying in his role, and was up for re-election in July.
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Nadal did his part on Thursday, fending off a surprisingly stiff challenge from 20-year-old Taro Daniel for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory in the final match of the night in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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But by offering Germany the possibility to have its first German national at the head of the European executive since the 1960s, he can claim to have put Europe before party while fending off burgeoning accusations of anti-German behavior.
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Ms. Roem, 33, a former reporter for a newspaper in the Washington suburbs, tried to focus on issues like traffic, while fending off attacks from Republicans, including the state party, that she was morally degenerate and not really a woman.
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Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Modi want to protect jobs in their own countries by fending off foreign competitors — shared attributes that make it even more difficult to strike a comprehensive agreement that would roll back trade barriers more broadly.
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Moscow says its forces along with Syria's army and Iranian-backed militias are fending off attacks by al Qaeda militants whom they accuse of targeting populated, government-held areas in a "de-escalation zone" brokered in 2018 by Turkey and Russia.
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The call, in which Trump congratulated Zelensky on his April election, took place while nearly $400 million in badly needed military aid appropriated by Congress to assist Ukraine in fending off Russia was being held up by the Trump administration.
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President Donald Trump will host the 2020 G-7 summit of world leaders at the Trump National Doral Miami, White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announced Thursday at a raucous briefing, fending off questions about presidential self-dealing.
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The remaining contestants on a reality television series have emerged after surviving 12 months in the Scottish wilderness — fending off hunger, infighting and fatigue — only to learn that the show stopped broadcasting after four episodes, the last of them in August.
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Faced with growing tumult, President Donald Trump heads into his three-day visit to the United Nations this week hoping to lean on strained alliances while fending off questions about whether he sought foreign help to damage a political rival.
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" But after an election campaign in which fending off far-right candidates was at least as demanding as subduing leftist insurgents, Mr. Hinton gave a more modest goal: "We were not going to let it become a Marxist totalitarian state.
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Ralph Northam spent the week fending off calls from every corner of the Democratic Party to resign after admitting -- and then recanting -- that he had been either in blackface or KKK robes in a photo on his medical school yearbook page.
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It is a rarity for a team competing in its eighth consecutive A.F.C. conference championship game to know it will be spending the week fending off scores of questions about the offensive might and superior skill set of the opposition.
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"Any I.T. professional will tell you they're fending off attacks all the time," said Eric Hartwell, deputy general counsel and insurance counsel for the Florida league, which began offering cyberattack liability coverage to its hundreds of members a few years ago.
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Mr. Temer spent much of his limited political capital as president fending off criminal investigations, which helped make him the country's most unpopular leader in recent history and a target of Brazilians' anger over the country's systemic culture of graft.
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For one thing, Facebook finds itself continuously fending off criticism for both the way it won't call itself a media company (despite so many publishers' fates now being inextricably linked to Facebook's users) as well as its role in spreading fake news.
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Actor Roberto Cavazos came forward on Tuesday and recounted his own alleged experience fending off Spacey while also claiming the Netflix star's inappropriate behavior toward younger actors was "common" practice during his 12-year-run as artistic director at The Old Vic Theatre.
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For starters, 74% of participants in the study cited the desire to imbibe in a relaxing environment — as opposed to a sweaty, crowded one where they're constantly being jostled, spilled on, and fending off unwanted advances — as a key reason to stay home.
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Infiniti is far from the first luxury automotive brand to show off an electric car concept in the wake of fending off Tesla and other startups, but Nissan's upscale division has taken the 403 Leaf's heart and run in a very different direction.
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"I hope to work with my colleagues on the Science Committee to ensure that this legislation swiftly moves through Congress, so that women and men in the STEM fields can focus their energies on making great discoveries rather than fending off unwanted advances."
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But the surge in share price, which helped Dropbox match its last private funding valuation, is a welcomed vote of market confidence for a company that spent years fending off aggressive competition from the tech industry's biggest players, including Google and Microsoft.
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Meanwhile, Kay is fending off few desperate patients who showed up at her house unannounced: a couple on the cusp of divorce and a suicidal man whose wife just left him for a life of prostitution, an indirect consequence of Kay's counseling method.
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The pledge by one of the world's biggest automakers to share its closely guarded patents, the second time it has opened up a technology, is aimed at driving industry uptake of hybrids and fending off the challenge of all-battery electric vehicles(EVs).
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And yet there is also this: A year ago, the social giant was in the midst of a small crisis, fending off a challenge from Snapchat which seemed to now own the fun, raw moments that originally gave social media its charm.
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Meanwhile, areas at the edge of the python's habitat like the Florida Keys have had some success in fending off invasions with rapid response teams: Locals are encouraged to report python sightings, and a team immediately comes in to take care of it.
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You're never too much of a grown-up to get a kick out of an indoor slumber party by the fireplace (which is arguably better than the hassle of setting up a full-blown campsite and fending off creepy crawly bugs, anyway).
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MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Bodies of what appeared to be executed civilians were found in a ravine outside a besieged Philippine city on Sunday as a six-day occupation by Islamist rebels fending off a military onslaught took a more sinister turn.
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Senator Sam Dastyari, 33, widely viewed as a rising star of the centre-left Labor opposition party, has been fending off a public backlash over the past week after media reported he asked a Chinese company to pay his expenses on a trip.
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The kingdom is caught between a rock and a hard place, seeking to prevent prices from rising far above $80 a barrel ahead of U.S. congressional elections while fending off doubts over its ability to compensate for a drop in Iranian supply.
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The pick up in growth, which is still slower than the 21625 percent level in the July–September period, reflects a mixture of news — better consumer spending and an economy still fending off global headwinds from a stronger dollar to plunging energy prices.
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When The Mirror stopped publishing in 1963, she switched to Hearst's Journal-American, replacing Igor Cassini (brother of the couturier Oleg Cassini), who was fending off federal charges that he had failed to register as a foreign agent for the Dominican dictatorship.
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The Bundy brothers are the sons of rancher Cliven Bundy, who gathered hundreds of armed militia members at his Nevada ranch in 85033, successfully fending off federal officials who tried to kick him and his cattle off the land for unpaid grazing fees.
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Republican hopeful Roy Moore has campaigned through multiple allegations of sexual misconduct -- fending off calls for his ouster from congressional Republicans while gaining the endorsement of President Donald Trump -- to find himself on the cusp of winning a seat in the Senate.
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Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen talk polling, surrogates, fending off journalists, and, finally, whether to buy Ms. McDougal's rights from A.M.I. The recording was among 12 handed over to prosecutors from a trove of Mr. Cohen's material that F.B.I. agents seized in April.
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As recently as 2013, Jezebel made light of the topic with "An Easy Guide to Fending Off Pick Up Artists" ("Let she who has never slept with an adult man in a fur top hat cast the first stone, I always say.").
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While salespeople at most companies will have their work disrupted by the increasing difficulty of travel, Forte said Microsoft is particularly vulnerable because those same salespeople are its best hope for overtaking AWS and fending off the growing competitive threat of Google Cloud.
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One senior administration official, who spoke anonymously at the White House's direction, said that officials from agencies responsible for fending off foreign intrusions had already briefed every presidential campaign on the threat to the 2020 elections and the federal resources available to them.
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Mr. Giuliani dispatched Mr. Parnas and an associate, Igor Fruman, a Belarusian-American businessman, to Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, where, despite fending off creditors at home, BuzzFeed reported, they ran up big charges at a strip club and the Hilton International hotel.
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Still, the former vice president found himself fending off multiple attacks on the aggressive deportation policies of Mr. Obama, forcing him to choose between whether to defend a former president beloved by Democrats or align himself with the more liberal party of 2019.
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Still, the former vice president found himself fending off multiple attacks on the aggressive deportation policies of Mr. Obama, forcing him to choose between whether to defend a former president beloved by Democrats or align himself with the more liberal party of 2019.
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" CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. found himself fending off new questions about his decades-long record on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, in a testy exchange with a moderator who described his treatment of her as "condescending.
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Mr. Turnbull has been fending off questions in the run-up to the visit about whether the first-time meeting with Mr. Trump might be awkward after their tense phone call in late January set off a storm of criticism in Australia.
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Over the last several years, Dr. Croce has been fending off a tide of allegations of data falsification and other scientific misconduct, according to federal and state records, whistle-blower complaints and correspondence with scientific journals obtained by The New York Times.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Presidential hopefuls must walk a fine line to defeat U.S. President Donald Trump, presenting their own views while fending off his attacks, said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost to Trump in a bitter 2016 race.
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As former New York City mayor and current billionaire Michael Bloomberg prepped a $30 million television ad buy to herald his official entrance into the presidential race, his spokesperson was fending off tweets about fake campaign signage making the rounds once again.
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West Finger comes alive through the lens of the director Jeremy Saulnier, a genre specialist whose work includes the violent, Coens-like noir comedy "Blue Ruin" and the thriller "Green Room," about a punk band fending off a bar full of neo-Nazis.
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For a middle-age writer like me, weary of fending off the elbows of intoxicated teenagers while keeping wind-whipped desert sand out of his eyes at Coachella, attending these shows in the city is a way to enjoy performances rather than merely survive them.
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"It was worse, because there are many boys and men who like to do bad things to girls, we were not safe," said Stacey, who recalls fending off an intruder who broke into her home and tried to rape her sister as she slept.
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Byers, who has no affiliation with BVT, told me he wouldn't write the technology off and said it could prove to be a really innovative approach to fending off plant disease, but said there needs to be more research to prove the concept works.
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin's seizure of Crimea four years ago first exposed the decrepit condition of Ukraine's armed forces, right-wing militias such as Azov and Right Sector stepped into the breach, fending off the Russian-backed separatists while Ukraine's regular military regrouped.
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The company's anticipated announcement of a new home speaker was reportedly scrapped from today's F8 agenda because its unveiling would raise too many questions about privacy at a time when Facebook is already fending off criticism about its wanton harvesting and distribution of data.
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Not only are IS fighters holding the line against Iraqi soldiers and their American backers after ten weeks of fighting in Mosul, but they are also fending off Turkish troops 515km (320 miles) to the west, around the town of al-Bab in northern Syria.
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A safety culture is analogous to a human body's immune system in fending off diseases, which in this context, includes not following life-saving procedures, work arounds, cutting corners, cover ups, taking unreasonable risk with patient care, preventing and fighting off infections, and so on.
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By contrast, Pelosi might really have a tough time fending off a challenge from someone like Vice Chair Linda Sánchez (D-CA) — a Latina Progressive Caucus member who would present a new look to the country while also cutting into Pelosi's base in the House.
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Going forward in fighting and fending off cyberthreats, timing-related solutions including GPS and atomic clocks ideally all need to be synchronized in the financial industry, said Joseph Loomis, founder and chief executive of CyberSponse, a cybersecurity and automation technology business based in Arlington, Virginia.
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The world number two, who won the men's team gold with South Korea on Saturday, survived two nail-biting tiebreaks in the quarter and semi-finals before fending off a hard-charging Valladont to win 7-403 on another gusty day at the Sambadrome.
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All I know is that we need to get our hands on this book somehow... When the 40-year-old isn't being asked about the love of his life (the two will be married three years in November), he is fending off Magic Mike fans.
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Additionally, Amazon's relationships with the Department of Defense have been somewhat strained after the company spent much of the past year fending off a lawsuit from Oracle over the JEDI award process, Christopher Cornillie, a federal technology market analyst at Bloomberg Government, told Business Insider.
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But undeterred even by his own advisers he is using his attorney general and a panoply of lawyers to shield him from disaster, whether it involves releasing his tax returns or fending off the 29 investigations now under way for federal, state and local crimes.
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As the front-runner for the nomination and coming off a string of Super Tuesday wins, Mr. Trump will be at center stage, fending off attacks from his remaining rivals and questions from what could be fairly described as his least favorite moderating team.
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In the spirit of radical pro-sex feminists of the 1960s, I thought #MeToo's condemnation of harassment and assault needed to be coupled with an active, pleasure-based vision — or else women would forever be fending off Tinder dates who feel entitled to sex.
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For most of the decade since the body, the Human Rights Council, became active, China's posture at its meetings has tended to be defensive, fending off criticism of its suppression of dissent and voting against initiatives to monitor or censure abuses by other states.
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The absence of a shadow, who typically accompanies Bezos to every meeting, suggests the CEO may be busy spending more time on non-Amazon issues, like fending off personal attacks from other powerful figures or external projects like his space exploration company Blue Origin.
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The Checkup When I wrote about fending off math anxiety last month I learned both from the experts I interviewed and from people to whom I happened to mention the topic that math anxiety is found across all lines of gender, ethnicity and educational background.
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This autumn, after years of dropping view-amassing videos of Spot the robot dog fending off stick-wielding humans and opening doors for its pals, Boston Dynamics finally announced that the machine was hitting the market—for a select few early adopters, at least.
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By relearning how to cry, I've relearned how to feel deeply, without all the embarrassment and false stoicism; when I get a little misty at the end of "Paddington 2," it's because I've allowed myself to be moved, instead of fending off the experience.
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After successfully fending off a hostile takeover bid from smaller rival Non-Standard Finance last year, Provident this month took a 2.8 million pound fine for vehicle-financing arm Moneybarn, concluding the latest in a line of investigations into its sales and business practices.
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In a hail of gunfire, shooting blanks, they stormed the thatched huts of a suspected Boko Haram bomb maker; seized laptops, cellphones and other material inside for clues on terrorist operations; and dashed back to the river, fending off a mock ambush on the way.
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As host of the annual conference of the Southern Academic Library Association, Charlie Harris, interim library director at Athena College in Mississippi, finds himself fending off self-designated luminaries like the arrogant Gavin Fong, plenary speaker of the convention and the perfect candidate for murder.
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Until Mr. Nakasone became prime minister, Japan had been led for decades by a succession of leaders content with turning the country into an economic superpower and fending off American pressure to assume a political and military role more commensurate with its economic might.
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That factors into training for the satellite operators as they practice how to assist fighters on the ground while fending off an attack in space — possibly by handing off the ground mission to another satellite and maneuvering out of the way of a missile.
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Although the deployment is not imminent, Erdogan has said troops would support Fayez al-Serraj's internationally-recognized Government of National Accord, which is fending off an offensive by General Khalifa Haftar's forces that are backed by Russia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
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She has been fending off accusations of anti-Semitism for weeks; before last week's uproar, Democratic leaders forced her to apologize for a comment she made in February, when she said support for Israel was "all about the Benjamins, baby" — a reference to $100 bills.
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On May 7, 20153, after 53 days of struggling nearly 500 miles across the fractured ice of the Arctic Ocean while lugging two 317-pound sleds and fending off hungry polar bears, Arctic explorers Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters finally reached the North Pole.
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And after weeks of Jones fending off bullying and threats from the alt-right, the hack has proven that Jones and her supporters were right to have raised the alarm with Twitter: There was serious substance to the abuse Yiannopoulos's followers were leveling against her.
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What's more, Clinton is currently going through a uniquely unfavorable stretch of the calendar while Trump has secured the GOP nomination and is enjoying a wave of new endorsements from former opponents — and all the while she is fending off the last throes of Bernie Sanders's insurgency.
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The film was a potent piece of speculative satire: a low-budget, tightly scripted horror film that posited as its protagonist a young black professional (played by Duane Jones) who struggles to navigate the neuroses and hysteria of his white counterparts while fending off an undead horde.
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A pair of conferences usually devoted to staid topics about election administration were instead packed with sessions dedicated to fending off election cyber attacks from Russia or others, as federal authorities tried to portray confidence while pleading with some states to take the threat more seriously.
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Kurdish YPG fighters have been trying to take advantage of the preoccupation of insurgents with fending off a Syrian ground offensive to disrupt traffic on the main highway that Sheikh Maqsoud overlooks used by passengers and rebels to get into the opposition held areas of the city.
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Take, for example, this section about our body temperature and how it is optimal for fending off attackers: The temperature we have is a reasonable compromise between utility and cost, as with most things, and actually even normal temperature is pretty good at keeping microbes in check.
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Instead, Democratic leaders have tamped down the impeachment push in the name of political pragmatism, fending off — for now — an effort by animated caucus liberals to escalate their oust-Trump campaign following his broadly maligned joint press conference with Putin in the Finnish capital on Monday.
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Once he is released from the hospital, Harrouff will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder as well as attempted first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing the couple's neighbor, 47-year-old Jeff Fisher, who tried fending off the couple's alleged attacker, police say.
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For almost five years, he has been fending off a legal claim for his 1918 Modigliani portrait of a merchant, pressed by the elderly French grandson of a Jewish antique dealer and by a company specializing in recovering looted art for a percentage of a sale.
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