Sentence examples for foiled at from inspiring English sources

We think we have free will, she continued, but we are foiled at every turn.

Their plan was discovered and foiled at the last minute, but that turned out to be just the beginning of the trouble.

Ten months later a sophisticated plot to smuggle explosives on to aircraft concealed in printer cartridges was foiled at East Midlands airport.

The electorate might also be influenced by fears that the CPP will again resort to violence if it is foiled at the ballot box.But the CPP also has many genuine supporters.

Then again, just a few years ago the terrorist plans of the Toronto 18 were foiled at the last minute, too.

The turmoil continues as the bass struggles up a dominant from C to G, invoking a new clash between snare drum and percussion; the attempt at struggle fails as the bass is foiled at G flat when the ominous violin melody is distorted and disintegrates.

Walking to a meeting in the city, I cross its last foiled attempt at regeneration.

His plan was foiled because at the exact instant the dummy fell overboard a second class passenger, Hermann Roebling, jumped overboard to kill himself and the witnesses were distracted.

They are trying to change a culture, one foiled violent act at a time.

Paradoxically, this appears to have foiled, for now at least, an attempt to create the first political dynasty in modern Central Asia.

There is the ongoing mole-agency finger-pointing over culpability for the suicide bombing at a CIA facility in Afghanistan and the foiled pants-bombing attack at the Detroit airport.