The phrase "able to thwart" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's capability to prevent or stop something from happening.
Example: "The new security measures are able to thwart any potential cyber attacks on the system."
Alternatives: "capable of preventing" or "able to stop".
"As a country, we may not be able to thwart every attack; we saw that yesterday.
Will the Nationalist Party be able to thwart Mr. Chen in Taiwan?
In his last Chelsea spell the Dutchman was able to thwart Wenger in both of their meetings.
Thanks to lack of public pressure the Adm. was able to thwart congressional attemtps to dig out the truth.
Worse, Republicans have been able to thwart the President even though they have been in the minority.
You are more likely to be fined than well-resourced publishers as they will be better able to thwart investigations.
Somehow, these future marvels of the past food pills, jet packs, flying cars and, yes, video telephones have an inertia that reality doesn't seem to be able to completely thwart.
1st Commonwealth Division intelligence staff believed that the Chinese had been attempting to make a breakthrough to the Imjin River along the divisional boundary in order to turn the US 1st Marine Division's flank, yet with well-coordinated indirect fires from the divisional artillery and support from the British tanks, 2 RAR had been able to successfully thwart both assaults.
By contrast, Uber was able combat efforts to thwart its access to markets.
These stories of evolution are a bit like Shakespearean dramas, where the one best able to carry out or to thwart poisonous schemes winds up becoming king.
And sometimes they are based on truly tenuous evidence; both the Gandhi and King families were able to maintain enough privacy to thwart Dr. Ghaemi's research.
