The bulk of the war years was spent either in thwarted projects or in spells of unemployment and penury; at the end of 1941, he had to borrow a hundred dollars from a friend.
And even then she struggled for years to realize her projects, and was forced to endure cruel and humiliating referendums on such thwarted projects as the Cardiff Bay Opera House, or the ongoing Olympic-stadium debacle in Tokyo, in which the government blocked Hadid's competition-winning design from going forward after protests from prominent Japanese architects.
The world's slowest car chase He hopes The Deep Blue Sea is a success, partly so he can get funding for earlier, thwarted projects, including an adaptation of Sunset Song, a glorious evocation of Scottish peasantry and subsistence farming at the time of the first world war, written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon in 1932.
Many an urban myth has people dropping great crested newts on to wasteland to thwart construction projects.
The main potential for investment in the mountainous country, still patrolled by European peacekeepers, lies in energy and infrastructure, but political feuding and self-enrichment continue to thwart big projects.
While some announcements point to greater cooperation between the two countries, like an agreement last month to consider shipping liquid natural gas from Venezuela to Brazil, they also underscore Brazil's ability to thwart politicized projects, like Mr. Chávez's plan for a 5,000-mile 5,000-mile
Environmentalists demonstrated for years against the Keystone XL during the Obama administration and it has inspired movements seeking to thwart similar projects like the Dakota Access Pipeline. .
They thwart my project and subsume me into theirs.
Added to his own first-hand experience of the maneuvers of aristocratic landowners determined to prevent the erection of a panopticon in the vicinity of their London estates, there was also a suggestion that the King himself, outraged by Bentham's "Anti-Machiavel" letters and disturbed by rumours of his Jacobinism, may have directly intervened to thwart the project (1838 43, XI, 96 105).
Not to mention the logistics nightmare and the fact geopolitical realities may thwart the project.
