Sentence examples for conspired to foil from inspiring English sources

The opposition conspired to foil the plans.

Plum Beach is the latest chapter in the decades-long saga of the city's lovers' lanes, where muggers, police crackdowns, wrecking balls and even a serial killer have conspired to foil young couples seeking a little privacy, and where those same couples, ever resilient (not to mention hormonal), have battled urban forces to create their own rendering of a small-town tradition.

On her journey, events conspire to foil her: people keep asking her questions, a nice woman offers her cookies, accidents take place and authorities ask if she's witnessed them and so on.

Mr. Hijazi, a former business school student born in California, was arrested in October 2000 in Syria on charges that he had conspired to blow up tourist sites in Jordan on the eve of the millennium, a plot that had been foiled in November 1999 by Jordanian intelligence.

Vested interests conspired to neuter most suggestions.

Events, however, conspired to delay its completion.

Some of them conspired to oust Townsend.

conspired to ruin the big reveal.

Many factors have conspired to produce this situation.

Natural disaster and politics conspired to buffet energy supplies.

Two geological phenomena conspired to steal her thunder.