What's the difference between fending and sending?
Fending
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fend
Example Sentences:
(1) But from then on, he said, he and his family have essentially been left to fend for themselves.
(2) Duncan Smith is also seeking EU allies to fend off European commission legal proceedings claiming that Britain has introduced an additional right to reside test that indirectly discriminates against EU citizens.
(3) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
(4) What a transformation for Coleman who, just over a year ago, had to fend off calls for the sack.
(5) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
(6) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(7) George Osborne has fended off Conservative MPs anxious at proposed cuts to tax credits at a private meeting of party’s 1922 backbench committee, by insisting the changes have to go ahead and warning that if he had not acted then £15bn worth of spending cuts would have to be found elsewhere.
(8) Clinton trained her fire on Trump as she continues to fend off her Democratic challenger, Senator Bernie Sanders , who has narrowed the primary race in California.
(9) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
(10) Snapchat has fended off Facebook already If teens are using Snapchat more and Facebook less, you'll understand why the social network might want to buy or kill it.
(11) In an attempt to fend off accusations that the comprehensive spending review (CSR) - which aims to cut spending in inflation-adjusted terms by £83bn over the next four years - is disproportionately harsh on the less fortunate, Osborne is insisting that the banks - widely blamed for causing the crisis - should pay their share of the financial clean-up operation by signing new tax agreements.
(12) In 2010, the authorities also rushed through changes to labour laws designed to fend off demands from local unions for better working conditions.
(13) Why aren’t they flooding the Senate with phone calls in favor of making people fend for themselves in the healthcare insurance market?
(14) "These animals go on to die of gangrene or other secondary infections, sometimes leaving nursing puppies abandoned to fend for themselves."
(15) So at this time of rock bottom returns, where can savers turn to make something from their cash and fend off inflation?
(16) In their 125th year, the Rooks fended off bankruptcy to become Lewes Community Football Club, thus joining AFC Wimbledon, FC United of Manchester and Exeter City, among others, as collective entities.
(17) Since swooping for the Premier League rights last year (fending off the incumbent partnership of ESPN and Fox, as well as a large bid from the Al Jazeera owned beIN Sports channel) NBC have been aggressively promoting the thoroughness of their coverage, which offers subscribers to their sports network channel NBCSN an additional range of channels showing every game live.
(18) What’s needed The main priority is fending off interest in striker Danny Ings, who is out of contract in the summer, a cut-price option for several rivals but also essential to Burnley’s prospects of staying up.
(19) An important part of the answer lies in a court of appeal judgment from 1998, which says single homeless people are not given priority for housing assistance when homeless, unless they are “less able to fend for himself than an ordinary homeless person so that injury or detriment to him will result when a less vulnerable person would be able to cope without harmful effects”.
(20) The group has paid £1.18bn to fend off Sky and renew exclusive broadcast rights for Champions League and Europa League football.
Sending
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Send
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
(3) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(4) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(5) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
(6) A survey into the current usage of tracheal tubes and associated procedures, such as various sedation regimes and antacid therapy, in intensive care units was carried out in Sweden by sending a questionnaire to physicians in charge of intensive care units in 70 acute hospitals which included seven main teaching hospitals.
(7) Weiner resigned in 2011 after sending a picture of himself in his underwear to a 21-year-old woman in Seattle that subsequently ended up on the internet.
(8) He sends a low ball into the middle, in the general direction of Fabregas, but the former Arsenal captain can't get ahead of Lahm, who is making a proper nuisance of himself.
(9) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
(10) The Yamaguchi-gumi is reportedly considering a ban on sending traditional gifts to business associates, and holds weekly meetings to discuss its response to the new ordinances.
(11) In practice this would probably be vetoed by China, which has close links with North Korea and maintains a policy of sending back people found to have fled across the border, despite widespread evidence that they face mistreatment and detention on their return.
(12) Despite a new quota system demanding that the largest members send one woman for every four men, just 17% of the 2,500 delegates are female.
(13) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(14) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
(15) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
(16) I stand by my decision to send my son to Park View.
(17) "The government will ban qat so that we can protect vulnerable members of our communities and send a clear message to our international partners and qat smugglers that the UK is serious about stopping the illegal trafficking of qat."
(18) This sends the dangerous message that the citizens of the debtor countries need to suffer badly to signal their contrition.
(19) These cell bodies send a diffuse projection of processes throughout the spinal cord, including: (1) a dense projection to the ventral surface; (2) a strong projection to the ventromedial longitudinal fiber tracts; (3) a less intense projection to the dorsal longitudinal fiber tracts; and (4) a weak projection to the lateral fiber tracts.
(20) Indiana Indiana began to purge inactive voters in may 2014 by sending postcards to all registered voters.