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Thwarted

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Past of thwart

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Contrary to the claims by NSA defenders that the surveillance being conducted is legal, the Obama DOJ has repeatedly thwarted any efforts to obtain judicial rulings on whether this law is consistent with the Fourth Amendment or otherwise legal.

The visitors continued to press, and when Austin's shot was beaten away by Fielding, Chris McCann's attempt to get to the rebound was thwarted when he was sent sprawling by James Bailey.

McConnell and his colleagues who opposed reform were thwarted in their efforts by a growing backlash by Senate Republicans and, in particular, his Kentucky colleague, Senator Rand Paul.

David Cameron's ambition of seeing elected "Boris-style" mayors across Britain was thwarted on Friday after voters in nine English cities rejected the idea by referendum.

Dervis Eroglu, his conservative predecessor, had a hawkish approach that from the outset of his five-year tenure thwarted negotiations.

"I've always liked the five, it's a number I always do well with," said Baffert, the Hall of Fame trainer who has been thwarted in three previous Triple Crown tries, with Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet (1998) and War Emblem (2002).

It says efforts to contain the spread were thwarted by "political blockages".

"Israel thwarted the contacts that could have brought peace," said chief Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmed.

For the golden era of Ukrainian national identity was not tsarist Russia – where Ukrainian national self-assertion was thwarted – but the first decade of the Soviet Union, when Soviet policy in a Ukraine exhausted by war and famine was "indigenisation".

Rodallega could have had a hat-trick while Asmir Begovic thwarted Mario Melchiot, who had combined with the Colombian.

The IDF released infared video of the attack being thwarted.

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