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Thwarts

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Third person singular of thwart

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THE lack of reliable data in poor countries thwarts both development and disaster-relief.

Villagers are too poor to buy fuel for the generator powering the water pump when bad weather thwarts solar power.

Here is how Bickel put the dilemma The root difficulty is that judicial review is a countermajoritarian force in our system....[W]hen the Supreme Court declares unconstitutional a legislative act or the act of an elected official it thwarts the will of the actual people of the here and now; it exercises control, not in behalf of the prevailing majority, but against it.

In 2011 Bristol-Myers Squibb, a drug company, introduced a product called Yervoy, an antibody that binds to one of these deceptive checkpoint proteins, CTLA-4, and thus thwarts its attempts to fool the immune system.

It opens with the story of a Japanese midwife, Orito Aibagawa, who in 1799 thwarts a senior adviser to the emperor to save the life of a newborn princeling and his concubine mother.

After they left, the system was changed back.Beyond the déjà-vu effect of watching Messrs Netanyahu and Barak jostling for another chance, their separate sparring with Ms Livni thwarts any hope of a return to broadly bipolar politics of the left and right.

Using SSL, for example, easily thwarts an AirSnort attack, but the majority of web traffic does not use SSL.

The book "Death of Common Sense" published in the mid-1990s wan an equally entertaining and frustrating treatise on how our legal system causes paralysis and thwarts good government.

But disease itself thwarts that growth.

He thwarts their plans, and Gil runs off, leaving Steve and Heck to face Billy and his brothers, who have ambushed them in the hopes of taking back Elsa.

The gang thwarts all police efforts to capture them, until a fateful encounter on a lonely country road.

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