Sentence examples for foil attempts from inspiring English sources

And in New Mexico, prison officials foil attempts to smuggle Suboxone to inmates about once a week, said Shannon McReynolds, a spokesman for the New Mexico Corrections Department.

If London nevertheless tried to foil attempts to fix the euro, it would antagonise the other EU countries and damage its own interests.

To counter this vulnerability, many biometric systems employ a liveness detection function to foil attempts at biometric forgery [17, 18].

"It is imperative that national leaders work together to foil attempts to destroy the social fabric of Iraqi society".

"It is imperative that national leaders work together to foil attempts to destroy the social fabric of Iraqi society," Mladenov said.

"As large parts of the country remain under the control of ISIL [ISIS] and armed groups, it is imperative that national leaders work together to foil attempts to destroy the social fabric of Iraqi society".

Some script pages were distributed on red paper to foil attempted photocopies or faxes; "We had real trouble reading them," Frakes noted.

The way he has foiled attempts to remove him are a cause for enormous concern".

"Troops are on a mopping-up operation in Damaturu after foiling attempts by terrorists to occupy parts of the town".

This is the third time in recent weeks that the police have foiled attempts to send ETA terrorists into Spain.ETA is being slowly asphyxiated by Europe's police.

Two strides, a solid contact with his right instep, and his penalty kick was skimming past the right hand of Ricardo, the man who had foiled attempts by Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher to beat him from 12 yards five nights earlier.