Sentence examples for Stymie efforts from inspiring English sources

Generational differences need not stymie efforts at the bargaining table.

Meanwhile, Galuszka writes, gridlock in Washington continues to stymie efforts to clean up Big Coal.

Powerful unions stymie efforts to fire civil servants, making such jobs exceptionally stable and well protected.

Democrats won the House, and can stymie efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.

Meanwhile, he said, prosecutors used the testimony to stymie efforts to prove Mr. Willingham's innocence and prevent his death.

Unchallenged, this misunderstanding of what works for low-income children could stymie efforts to improve the country's worst schools.

Many Baghdad neighborhoods are still unsafe for United Nations workers to visit, according to an agency spokeswoman, a fact that is stymieing efforts to gauge how the returnees are faring.

The traffickers — fortified by the resilient demand for cocaine in the United States, Brazil and parts of Europe — are stymieing efforts to combat the drug's resurgence here and raising the specter of greater violence in a nation still haunted by years of war.

Twenty-five yeago ago, people were less clear about the extent of the threat we face in terms of climate change, and there was less understanding about the damaging role oil companies have played both in terms of historic carbon emissions and stymieing efforts to tackle the problem.

His promotion would signal a commitment to maintaining the party's tight grip on local media, stymieing efforts to allow traditional and social media a greater role in acting as an unofficial check on government corruption.

Themas Kennedy is a writing fellow for the county for Communisy Change Action.