The word "athwart" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adverb that means in a direction or position that is across something, typically in a way that blocks progress. For example, "The fallen tree lay athwart the narrow road, blocking all traffic."
But they should remember that winning elections requires more than just standing "athwart history yelling 'Stop!'Stop
In all these instances, says the army, the houses were built without permission.But the Palestinians argue that the houses in the West Bank were removed because they were preventing a widening of existing Israeli settlements, and that at least some of the houses in East Jerusalem were marked for destruction because they lay athwart plans for yet another new ring road round the city.
WILLIAM BUCKLEY, the grand old man of the American right, once argued that a conservative's duty was to stand athwart history shouting "Stop!" So far this special report has argued that modernity has been surprisingly helpful to religion.
"Is it not both great vanity and uncleanness that at the table...men should not be ashamed to sit...puffing of the smoke of tobacco one to another making the filthy smoke and stink thereof to exhale athwart the dishes...when very often men that abhor it are at their repast," he wrote four centuries ago.
San Franciscans may hold out their arms to the world, but many do so standing athwart their single-family homes and yelling "Stop!"Most cities would love San Francisco's problems.
A recent poll by the Lowy Institute, a think-tank, found most Australians do not see China as a possible military threat.Cultural hurdles stand athwart the paper's aspirations for Asian integration.
The ideologues were the heirs of the conservative revolt that began in the 1950s with William Buckley (who wanted to stand "athwart history, yelling Stop") and Barry Goldwater (who wanted to repeal laws rather than pass them).
It also sits athwart the road from the Mauritanian border to one of Mali's few big bridges across the river Niger, and on a back route north to the historic city of Timbuktu, which makes it something of a strategic crossroads.
Rostov, oblast (region), southwestern Russia, athwart the lower Don and Manych rivers.
On more favoured terrain such as estuarine fringes, the seaward flanks of the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, and hill masses athwart the rain-bearing southeast monsoon forest and a close broad-leaved woodland are still dominant.
The oblast lies athwart the middle Volga River, which is there transformed into a broad lake by the downstream Samara dam.
