Sentence examples for do not foil from inspiring English sources

The residents of a Scottish town where a Texas oil baron would like to build a refinery want to sell the town; they do not "foil the attempts" of the oil baron to build the refinery.

As investigative reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman detailed in a Pulitzer Prize winning series of damning stories for the Associated Press in 2011 and 2012, all that sneaking around in the name of developing some kind of comprehensive record of where the city's Muslims might be found at any given time not only didn't foil any terrorist plots it didn't even lead to any investigations.

Some items exist in reality (reals), and others do not (foils).

But those huge multihulls did not foil, and the rub is that the AC72s were not supposed to foil either.

The economic downturn did not foil as many savings plans as the simple fact that people spent too much.

Make sure that you do not fold the foil so much that the painted hair gets folded onto itself.

The patches used for long-term contraceptive devices do not contain foil, she said.

Do not microwave foil wrapping.

Do not use foil balloons.

Don't fold the foils too tightly this can cause ugly patches where the fold prevents the mixture from sitting evenly on the hair.

Do not use aluminum foil.