Sentence examples for I thwarted from inspiring English sources

Mr. McIndoe immediately tried to buy us drinks, an effort I thwarted only by rushing to the bar with a fistful of dollars.

On July 25 , 1993 I thwarted a terrorist attack on the St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa.

So why should I thwart the Fed?

"How was it thwarted?" I ask.

A6 Saudis Say a Plot Is Thwarted Saudi Arabia said the police had foiled an imminent terrorist attack and killed two militants in a shootout in Mecca, seizing rocket-propelled grenades, rifles, pistols, explosives, ammunition and passports.

An Indian girl in the cast – she was a dancer; just 16 – had told me she was convinced that I was thwarted in some way; that I should be more expressive as a performer.

"I've had a lot of success in the work, but I always thwarted a career.

Several times, I'm thwarted by typing in the wrong number, and by the time I enter the correct bid, the attractive price is long gone.

Perhaps because Lower Manhattan has relatively few hotels, perhaps because of tourists' interest in the ground zero site, I was thwarted in my quest to find rock-bottom rates downtown in late March and early April.

Hidir Hokka, the camp's overseer, views modern Turkey and Mr. Erdogan's rise as a plot by the United States and Europe to exact revenge for Ataturk's rebellion after World War I that thwarted the Allies' plans to control much of present-day Turkey.

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