Sentence examples for designed to stymie from inspiring English sources

Despite regulations designed to stymie the six-legged hoard, two to three new invasive insect species set up shop in the United States each year.

Over the last three or four years, Senate Republicans have made a mockery of the minority party's protections, routinely filibustering virtually every bill, blocking nominations and spending hours on political stunts designed to stymie and embarrass President Obama and the Democrats.

A simple majority of eurozone countries – nine of 17 – would see the "fiscal union" come into force within a month of the nine ratifications, a move clearly designed to stymie, for example, a no vote in a potential Irish referendum or a rejection by other eurozone parliaments.

For example, in 2015, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass)., a strong opponent of ISDS, introduced an amendment designed to stymie the Obama administration from including ISDS in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed free-trade agreement for 11 nations along the Pacific Ocean.

In fact, according to Italian court documents and interviews with investigators, the CIA's tip was a deliberate lie, part of a ruse designed to stymie efforts by the Italian anti-terrorism police to track down the cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, an Egyptian refugee known as Abu Omar.

As David Dayan at The New Republic and Harold Pollack at Salon remind me, a bill designed to stymie an expansion of the fiduciary standard to cover Individual Retirement Accounts is almost certain to come up for a vote this week.

The paper prompted a swift backlash in India, with one politician suggesting that it was part of a "sinister design" to stymie the growth of the country's medical-tourism industry.

And in response, the brave new world of technology designed to thwart and stymie drones.

The equipment was designed to be disassembled and moved quickly, to stymie an Israeli attack, and the rockets were scattered throughout Gaza as soon as they came off the assembly line.

But, we do know that the announcement unleashed a flood of Big Food and Big Soda lobbying activity designed to stall the process and ultimately stymie the changes.

Senate Republicans yesterday blocked consideration of 35 bills that were rolled into one omnibus measure designed to overcome the objections of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla)., who has used parliamentary tactics to stymie dozens of pieces of legislation.