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The victim was slashed on the arm with a knife when he tried to fight off his attacker.

You'd better fight off sleep.

The rhinoceros uses its horn to fight off predators.

The victim was stabbed in the hands and arms while trying to fight off his attacker.

So, paradoxically, a big chin on a healthy man is an advertisement of robustness: It means that, despite an excess of testosterone, his immune system is still powerful enough to fight off disease.

The two fight off bad guys to get seats aboard a space shuttle bound for the diva's concert, which is being held on Phloston Paradise, a sort of interstellar Oahu.

I confess: I come to a Spike Lee "joint" with suspicion, prepared to fight off the propaganda, to sort through the messages and scrutinize the codes.

I find myself having to fight off the urge to call him--and sometimes I give in and call.

A limpieza can expel the hostile forces and also provide spiritual strength so that the person can effectively fight off negative energy.

However, these cells must be prepared to help fight off infections by bacteria that have evolved mechanisms to enter and replicate in their cytoplasm.

In most cases, our ability to survive these viral infections is simply a combination of good luck and good breeding, with the right combination of MHC alleles, itself a function of population history and what we by chance inherit from our parents, some individuals may be more able to fight off viral infections than others.

In every engagement of any consequence that took place during the first two years of war, with the single exception of the fight off Chile, Britain won and Germany lost.

There was one great sea-fight off Sluys, when the king sat in his ship, in a black velvet dress, and gained a great victory; but it was a good while before there was any great battle by land-so long, that the king's eldest son, Edward Prince of Wales, was sixteen years old.

In 1284, in a great sea-fight off Meloria, the Pisans were defeated by the Genoese with heavy loss, which, as Sismondi states, 'ruined the maritime power' of the former.

The contention waxed hot, and was virtually decided when the Armada shaped course to the northward after the fight off Gravelines.

Jessopp, in his eagerness to blacken Elizabeth, says that they 'were, as a rule, far better furnished than the Queen's ships.' The Lord Admiral on another occasion, before the fight off Gravelines, said of the ships he hoped would join him from Portsmouth: 'Though they have not two days' victuals, let that not be the cause of their stay, for they shall have victuals out of our fleet,' a conclusive proof that his ships were not very short.

I find I can (almost immediately) fight off a cold with liquid extract of coca; two or (if obstinate) three teaspoonfuls in the day for a variable period of from one to five days sees the cold generally to the door.

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