"He defended a valley similar to this by positioning warriors with disruptors to fend off a frontal assault at distant intervals so no one force could take all of them out from above."

A large-scale French naval deployment in 1757 fended off an attempted assault by the British in 1757.

Sara goes into labour and Dani acts as midwife while Jackie and Patience fend off a new assault by the Angelus.

He arrived just as the nau Concepção was in the process of desperately fending off a heavy assault by the Calicut squad.

Intuit, the leading producer of personal-finance software, had fended off an assault by the Microsoft Corporation on its core product, Quicken.

They report to the town palisade and fend off an assault by the goblin army.

What they'd agreed was that they couldn't hope to fend off a serious assault on the house.

Hayes's troops fended off a Confederate assault at Berryville and advanced to Opequon Creek, where they broke the enemy lines and pursued them farther south.

A group of rebels managed to fend off a military assault against a rebel checkpoint outside of the city, but within hours, government tanks had captured the city's main square.

Throughout the course of the story, missions include getting to a specific location, escorting another island, fending off a large-scale assault, exploring other islands and dogfighting using remote-controlled planes.