Gasquet saw off compatriot Benoit Paire to reach the final.
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On May 22nd Amazon saw off two challenges by activist shareholders.
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You aren't hoisting yourself up three stories to saw off a limb?
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And in 2015, Clozel reportedly saw off bid interest from British drugmaker Shire.
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But the immense political power of landowners saw off the threat, there and elsewhere.
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The government in Baghdad saw off a premature Kurdish push for independence last year.
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Finally, Donald Cerrone saw off yet another young up-and-comer in Alexander Hernandez.
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We're told the fire department had to saw off the roof to free them.
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Bob Menendez, the scandal-ridden incumbent senator, saw off a primary challenge by a thin margin.
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She broke back and had two break chances in the sixth game, which Muguruza saw off confidently.
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"Three Soldiers", the war novel he published in 1921, saw off any idea that war was glorious.
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It was a former inhabitant of the tower who saw off a bold attempt to change it.
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"Ever think about having kids?" says Tony, as he watches me saw off a couple of fingers.
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The 2019 event was won by housekeepers from The Venetian, who saw off competition from The Mirage.
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V V: Well, I'm not about to saw off the branch I'm sitting on, so … that's a yes.
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That being said, Overeem's stock has never been higher since he saw off the former Brazilian heavyweight champion.
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For me, that play was Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," which I first saw Off Broadway in 1981.
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Najib has called Myanmar's military operation "genocide" and saw off the shipment when it left Malaysia last Friday.
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She saw off a subsequent campaign led by Nelson Peltz, an activist investor, to split the company in two.
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The odds for that improved after the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, narrowly saw off a vote of no confidence.
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Earlier this month, the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron saw off the far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen.
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It's even rumored that the bullish Reg saw off a management proposal from AC/DC boss-man Peter Mensch.
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It also helped that Mr. Macron saw off Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election.
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Hawke saw off the first challenge but eventually lost to Keating a few months later in a party-room coup.
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America's unique willingness to lead by fusing power and legitimacy saw off the Soviet Union and carried it to hegemony.
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With little more than a few phone calls, the Anglo-Dutch consumer product giant saw off the much smaller competitor.
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The French aced their group with three victories, then saw off Portugal with an extra-time win to make the final.
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When you saw off every policy to what falls into the immediate range of possibility at the present moment, you give
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France sealed victory over Britain on Saturday and will face Novak Djokovic's Serbia who also saw off Spain in two days.
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Liberalism—in this broad classical sense, rather than the narrow American left-of-centre one—saw off communism as well as social conservatism.
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Liberalism—in this broad, classical sense, rather than the narrow, American, left-of-centre one—saw off communism as well as social conservatism.
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Mr Polman saw off that challenge, but followed up by announcing his own efficiency plan and the sale of the group's margarine business.
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If you were to take an Echo, saw off the lower speaker assembly, and seal up the bottom, you'd essentially have a Dot.
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Cancan, who beat Adams in the 2010 and 2012 world championships finals, saw off Canada's Mandy Bujold by the same 3-0 scoreline.
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In the event Burberry saw off a revolt on the scale it suffered in 2014, when a majority of shareholders voted against Bailey's pay.
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I saw off two small pieces of baguette and stuff one with jamón serrano, the other with salchichón, and pour olive oil over both.
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Romania's Mihaela Buzarnescu saw off the challenge of Germany's Laura Siegemund despite dropping the opening set with a 3-6 6-0 6-4 victory.
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In May, Barclays saw off a spirited effort from activist investor Edward Bramson and his hedge fund Sherborne Investors to gain seats on its board.
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It was the first country to declare independence from Moscow in 1990, and saw off a Soviet army attempt to topple its government in 1991.
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The incumbent Republican governor, Bruce Rauner (pictured), who splashed out some $50m on his campaign, saw off a strong challenge from a right-winger, Jeanne Ives.
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In three all-American women's clashes on Tuesday Shelby Rogers beat Julia Boserup, Alison Riske saw off Sloane Stephens and Varvara Lepchenko beat 28th seed Lauren Davis.
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Romania's Irina-Camelia Begu saw off Misaki Doi of Japan 6-2 7-6 (3) and next faces world number one Serena Williams or Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova.
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I saw off a piece of baguette and stuff it with cold cut turkey, cheese, and tomatoes, and douse it all with olive oil for good measure.
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After two weeks of metal rods, a vein transplant, and chemical debridement that caused searing, impossible pain, doctors would saw off everything six inches below my knee.
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In 2004 Barack Obama saw off two richer opponents: Blair Hull, a former securities trader who had pumped $29m into his campaign, and the Republican Jack Ryan.
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The day after he saw off the excavator, he fenced off his 0.25 acre (0.1 hectare) plot and placed a sign warning that "Trespassers will be prosecuted".
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Fosun saw off competition from Qatari investment fund Mayhoola, the owner of Italy's Valentino, to take control of Lanvin, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.
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Romine took 16 at-bats into Sunday's game and slammed the first pitch he saw off the wall in extreme right for an RBI triple in the second.
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In New Mexico's safely Democratic first congressional district, Deb Haaland saw off five challengers; in November she will probably become the first Native American woman elected to Congress.
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Some of the opposition look to the Gambia, which saw off attempts by Yahya Jammeh, its longtime dictator, to cling to power after losing an election last year.
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The Spaniard will meet French second seed Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, who saw off Italy's Fabio Fognini 7-5 7-6(4) in the final match of the day.
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On July 10 the Montrose saw off an apparent attempt by Iranian vessels to block the passage of a British oil tanker at the northern entrance of Hormuz.
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"A friend of mine, cycling in the Durban area was robbed by three people this morning, Then they attempted to saw off both legs with a chainsaw," he tweeted.
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Rydzek glided over the line to take the gold, holding a German flag aloft, and Norway's Joergen Grabbak saw off the challenge of Austria's Mario Seidl to take silver.
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Oosthuizen, with a tournament total of 266, comfortably saw off the challenging pack as he ended almost three years without tournament success in securing a ninth European Tour title.
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Without hesitating, Einar let Helgi drive a crane and a tractor trailer onto the beach, saw off the tail from his C-133, and haul it back to Hoffell.
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It's a huge blow to Cameron, who led the Conservative Party to victory in the 2015 general election and saw off the threat of Scottish independence a year before that.
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Sadly, their horns are so valuable on the black market that poachers recently broke into a French zoo to kill a 4-year-old rhino and saw off its horn.
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Del Potro, the third seed, is yet to drop a set in New York so far and saw off American duo Donald Young and Denis Kudla in the first two rounds.
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The world number 27 looked set for another disappointment before a spirited effort saw off the world number 63 and set up a second-round clash with Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro.
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As Richard Schröder, a former East German dissident, notes, the application of western laws and practices saw off the threat of oligarchic corruption that has plagued many of Germany's eastern neighbours.
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Out in the morning wave, overnight leader Rose set the target with a grinding one-under 215 and saw off all his early challengers on a chilly day on the Monterey peninsula.
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In Michigan, Trump easily saw off a challenge by John Kasich, who had spent so much time campaigning in the state that he joked: "I may have to start paying taxes" there.
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It enabled the rebuilding of post-war Europe, saw off the closed world of Soviet communism and, by connecting China to the global economy, brought about the greatest poverty reduction in history.
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She also saw off an attempt by pro-European Union rebels in her own party require the government to try to negotiate a customs union arrangement with the EU if, by Jan.
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While Portugal saw off Wales, the Welsh playmaker Gareth Bale was still given enough space to create chances and were outdone more by the absence of midfield creativity than by Portuguese prowess.
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Sterling had popped higher on Tuesday after British Prime Minister Theresa May saw off a rebellion in parliament over amendments to a bill for the country's exit from the EU next year.
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In the AFC championship game the Brady and the Patriots saw off the Kansas City Chiefs and their brilliant young quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who was named the NFL's most valuable player on Saturday.
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Republicans have, however, done their best to saw off one of those legs; even before they repealed the mandate, they drastically reduced outreach efforts in an attempt to discourage healthy Americans from enrolling.
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The Dutch election last month, in which Prime Minister Mark Rutte saw off a challenge from far-right rival Geert Wilders to win re-election, was also forecast as the vote drew closer.
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Victory keeps the 13-times Grand Slam champion on track for a potential quarter-final showdown against second seed Roger Federer, who saw off Nick Kyrgios in straight sets earlier in the day.
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He presided over a summit on his grand plan for the world economy, charmed the global elite at Davos and saw off the TPP, a huge trade deal that Beijing wasn't part of.
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The shooting on June 16 took place outside a homeless outreach center in Van Nuys, when the attacker, later identified as Guillermo Perez, tried to saw off a hostage&aposs head, police said.
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Ruth is just the right person to carry on the work of modernisation, consigning Scottish nationalism to the dustbin of history in the same way that I saw off the madness of Brexit. ■
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LES SABLES D'OLONNE, France (Reuters) - Armel Le Cleac'h saw off a late challenge by Britain's Alex Thomson to maintain France's domination of the solo round-the-world Vendee Globe sailing race on Thursday.
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Fifth-seeded Chen needed 41 minutes to quell the challenge of India's 13th seed Ajay Jayaram 21-11 21-10, while the third-seeded Marin saw off Denmark's Mia Blichfeldt 213-7 21-11.
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GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Brandt Snedeker saw off a challenge from Taiwan's C.T. Pan to claim a three-stroke win at the Wyndham Championship on Sunday and raise his hand for Ryder Cup duty.
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LONDON, Aug 213 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Mosaad Aldossary saw off Belgian adversary Stefano Pinna 4-0 on aggregate in the two-legged FIFA eWorld Cup Grand Final on Saturday to walk away $250,000 richer.
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South African triathlete Mhlengi Gwala, 26, was training in the coastal city of Durban, when unknown assailants threw him off his bike and attempted to saw off his legs, according to the Associated Press.
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Simona Halep beat world number seven Konta 6-1 13-3, while Irina-Camelia Begu saw off Watson with a 6-4 7-5 victory to seal the tie for the Romanians before the doubles.
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There is no reason for Mitch McConnell or Paul Ryan to go out on a limb for a bipartisan proposal when they have no idea if Trump might be ready to saw off that limb.
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The Los Angeles Police Department released the dramatic video on Tuesday showing the moment when Guillermo Perez tried to saw off Elizabeth Tollison&aposs head before officers fired nearly 20 times, striking both of them.
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In his run for parliament, Mounir Mahjoubi, the 33-year-old son of Moroccan immigrants, saw off Socialist Party chief Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, who had held Paris' working class 19 arrondissement seat for two decades.
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The Socialists won 123 seats in Sunday's election, up from 84 in the outgoing parliament as they saw off the challenge from the right, which was splintered by the rise of the far-right Vox.
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Police officers noticed at the time an attempt to saw off the nose of Marx's sculpted head, raising fears that someone had placed another bomb inside to blow it off — the cut is still visible.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Frenchman Lucas Pouille saw off Belgium's David Goffin 63-6(6) 6-1 to reach the Moselle Open final in Metz on Saturday, setting up a clash with Austrian top seed Dominic Thiem.
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Senior lawyers gave the news a guarded welcome, some saying she would be a fresh face for Britain's top white collar crime-fighting organization just over a year after it saw off threats to its independence.
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Those intervals also are jarringly visually different, from a gorgeous animated sequence showing a butterfly in flight to a gruesome image of a man with body integrity identity disorder trying to saw off his own leg.
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In 2010, when she first ran for governor, she saw off three better-known rivals with the backing of the then-surging Tea Party, which liked her excoriations of some pork-happy Republicans as insufficiently conservative.
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She also saw off billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz's efforts to spin off the company's drinks business from its more successful snacks division by offering his fund, Trian, a board seat in 2015 to make peace.
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AstraZeneca, which saw off a $120 billion takeover attempt by Pfizer in 2014, said the sale would allow it to focus on developing new medicines in its main areas of cancer, and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian fighter jet saw off a NATO warplane after it approached a plane carrying Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu over neutral waters in the Baltic Sea, the TASS news agency reported on Tuesday.
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She also saw off billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz's efforts to spin off the company's drinks business from its more successful snacks division by offering his fund, Trian, a board seat in 2015 to make peace.
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American teenager Coco Gauff, the youngest player in the draw at 15, saw off the challenge of last year's semi-finalist Viktoria Kuzmova to advance with an impressive 6-3 6-1 victory in 61 minutes.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Andy Murray saw off the mercurial challenge of Australian Nick Kyrgios with little fuss on Monday, before just as smoothly playing down growing expectations that a second Wimbledon title is his for the taking.
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May, who saw off a challenge to her leadership on Wednesday, pulled a planned vote in parliament earlier this week on the deal after lawmakers threatened to vote it down due to their concerns over the backstop.
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Leverkusen saw off interest from clubs in England to sign him in January 2017, but the club privately accepts that his performances since then guarantee that the Premier League's big beasts, among others, will soon be back.
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PARIS (Reuters) - World number one Novak Djokovic saw off Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-3 6-4 to win a record-extending fifth Paris Masters title on Sunday in a warning to his rivals ahead of the ATP Finals.
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Del Potro, who won the tournament in Florida in 2011, will next face big-serving American Reilly Opelka after last week's New York Open champion saw off countryman Tennys Sandgren 6-4 6-0 earlier in the day.
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Kei Nishikori was made to work for his last-16 place but eventually saw off Bolivian Hugo Dellien 7-5 7-5, to set up a match against Stan Wawrinka, who beat Argentine Guido Pella 6-3 6-4.
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Since popping to an overnight high of $1.3424 after Prime Minister Theresa May saw off a rebellion in parliament over amendments to a bill for the country's exit from the European Union next year, sterling weakened nearly 1 percent.
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Elsewhere, former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko stormed into the next round with a 6-0 6-2 demolition of Iga Swiatek while Petra Martic saw off the challenge of Ekaterina Alexandrova with a 6-3 7-5 win.
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When this new signee, who had won "77 titles in martial arts", as mentioned on the Looking For a Fight episode, saw off Francisco Trevino in less than a minute in his UFC debut, there was plenty of excitement.
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For now, May saw off a revolt that would have challenged her authority at a time when she is increasingly under pressure to move ahead with all-but-stalled Brexit talks in Brussels by offering a more detailed plan.
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The turnaround in AstraZeneca's fortunes has been powered by a push into cancer treatments led by Chief Executive Pascal Soriot, who saw off a 219 takeover bid from Pfizer in part by promising annual sales of $21 billion by 20.7750.
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So it proved again this week, when Theresa May saw off threats to amend the European Union withdrawal bill to give MPs, not the government, the decisive say over what should happen if a no-deal Brexit looms next year.
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Nadal meets David Goffin in the quarter-finals on Friday after the Belgian beat Milos Raonic 6-4 6-2, while Djokovic will play Japanese sixth seed Kei Nishikori, who saw off David Ferrer of Spain 6-4 6-3.
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They haven't built a ship on Wearside since 1989 and commercial glass making finished there in 2007; Hull's shipping industry has shrivelled in tandem with the rise in automation while the Cod War saw off its fishing trade in the seventies.
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I failed to hold gains made on Tuesday when it briefly rose to $1.3424 after British Prime Minister Theresa May saw off a parliamentary rebellion over amendments to a bill for the country's exit from the European Union next year.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The pound rose on Tuesday after British Prime Minister Theresa May saw off a rebellion in parliament over amendments to a bill for the country's exit from the EU next year that had threatened to undermine her authority.
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She is trying to cast the election as a choice between stability under her leadership and chaos under Labour, whose left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn saw off a party revolt last year but is still struggling to impose his control.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The pound held on to the day's gains on Wednesday, trading just off two-month highs against the euro as British Prime Minister Theresa May saw off a no-confidence vote, a day after MPs defeated her Brexit divorce deal.
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Declared the official opposition to the government's drive for a "hard Brexit" when it sank last year, the pound barely moved on Monday as the Scotland's first minister demanded a new vote and the government saw off the last pieces of parliamentary opposition.
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France's Kristina Mladenovic was forced to retire due to injury while trailing Anastasija Sevastova 6-3 3-0, while defending champion Elina Svitolina barely broke a sweat as she saw off Petra Martic 6-1 6-2 to enter the last-16.
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Scotland Although he woke up late to the danger, Cameron, in conjunction with other UK party leaders, saw off a strong effort by the Scottish National Party to win a referendum on Scotland departing from the United Kingdom by 55% to 45%.
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American Stephens stayed calm and saw off an increasingly agitated Angelique Kerber in the winner-takes-all night match to complete round-robin play with a spotless 3-0 record after she wrapped up a 6-33 6-3 victory against the German.
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Posen reveals the fact that Danes had to stand up in a bus in order to be transported to the Met Gala, and that Gala officials had to saw off the back of a chair so that she could be seated more comfortably.
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Reed, who saw off a fading McIlroy by the turn, then had to survive challenges from U.S. Ryder Cup team mates Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler before sinking a par putt at the last to win the Green Jacket and his first major championship.
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Though the company also saw off a 2015 High Court challenge in the UK, brought by the local taxi industry, which had tried to argue that Uber should be regulated as a taxi business as its use of smartphones constituted use of a taximeter.
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The Turkish leader made a point of mentioning that the visit to St. Petersburg was his first foreign trip since he saw off the failed challenge to his rule, perhaps an indication of his dismay at the perceived lack of support from his NATO partners.
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The thing has been through a lot since it debuted in October -- it's been sprayed with paint, had a toilet seat around its arm and a noose around its neck, been set on fire ... and most recently, somebody tried to saw off its feet.
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Two successive breaks of serve allowed Williams to win her eighth game in a row and open up a 4-0 lead, and she saw off a brief fightback from Pliskova before sending down her 13th ace to seal the match in one hour and 26 minutes.
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" On Tuesday night, she compared the "hanging" comment to another she had made about the same person, saying, "To express my deep regard for and my sincere commitment to this young man, I used a phrase: I told him would fight a circle saw off for him.
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In Germany, the Christian Democrats in Saxony and the Social Democrats in Brandenburg saw off challenges from the hard-right Alternative for Germany in state elections, which means that at the national level, the grand coalition between the CDU and the SPD is likely to continue.
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Labour's grip on the area has weakened with the decades-long decline of the local mining, steel and fishing industries, but Thursday's vote proved a tipping point that will heap renewed pressure on left-wing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who only saw off a leadership challenge last September.
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Lee was the top lieutenant of Chairman Shin Dong-bin, who last year saw off a bitter challenge from his older brother for control of the group founded in 1948 in Japan as a maker of chewing gum by their father, Shin Kyuk-ho, who is now 93.
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There has never been a reason for me to have a handsaw, so when I unfolded the tree's instruction manual (very helpful!) and learned that I had to saw off the end of the tree because the trunk was clogged with sap and could not absorb any water, I was surprised.
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That might be the worst part—not the humiliation when you fell, not the physical injuries, not the fear that you would have to eventually saw off your arm or something a la 127 Hours, but the full bladder you were probably stuck with while you sat between buildings. 10.
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Wong is the former convener of student group Scholarism, which helped lead mass protests in 2012 that successfully saw off a plan to introduce "moral and national education" classes in Hong Kong schools, which many saw as an attempt by Beijing to exercise greater control over the Special Administrative Region.
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IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY Chief Executive Pascal Soriot, who saw off a takeover attempt by Pfizer in 2014, is looking beyond current problems and believes AstraZeneca can become a major player in cancer treatment by developing drugs that bolster the immune system and others that disrupt DNA repair mechanisms used by tumor cells.
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Several sitting French MEPs rallied to Macron's party, also known by its acronym LREM, as it secured a majority in the French assembly after he beat established left and right candidates on a pro-EU centrist platform and then saw off far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen in a runoff for the presidency.
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