Sentence examples for be foiled from inspiring English sources

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be foiled

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On the later legs, it is clear Broder was determined not to be foiled again".

The scheme would be foiled if you heard them doing so.

They are likely to be foiled again; the court has adjourned Mr Hussein's trial until November 28th, since too many witnesses were afraid to turn up.

A lesser writer, I think, would have been content to leave Woundwort as a simple thug; the crude monster to be foiled and brought down.

Naismith was the next Scot to be foiled, shooting again straight at Karcemarskas while under no pressure, in another example of wastefulness.

Only pint-sized saboteurs will be foiled, however; anyone five feet or taller can lean over to get a nice long look.

But it points to the dangers when protest movements come with theories of plots that need to be foiled and critics who need to be squeezed out.

First, Slimani attempts to latch on to yet another long ball in over the Germany defence, only to be foiled once again by Neuer rushing out of his penalty area.

In the Attleborough case, the teenager's use of a Web forum to announce his plan appears to have been the step that made it possible for the attack to be foiled.

An attempt to gain control of the Wall Street Journal might be foiled... On the other side of the equation, the commercial benefits that Murdoch is likely to gain in China by ditching Patten's book are unclear..

Any such plans, though, were likely to be foiled by events that ran late or by lack of seating, and you might just as easily find yourself leaving one break only to arrive somewhere else in time for another.

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