Sentence examples for foiled effort from inspiring English sources

They must endure constant taunting by fellow journalists who make sport of anticipating their exit, a drumbeat that has become louder than ever in the aftermath of Disney's foiled effort this year to displace another fixture of anchordom, the 62-year-old Ted Koppel.

Their explanation for their latest foiled effort seemed to boil down to a simple question: "What else are we supposed to do?" Frustrated by the lack of political progress in Iraq, under pressure by antiwar groups and mindful of polls showing that most Americans want the war to end, the Democrats last week put forward a $50 billion war spending bill with strings attached knowing it would fail.

New information in the Silk Road case is sending ripples of schadenfreude through the cryptocurrency community as it reacts to a foiled effort by two US Federal Agents to skim thousands of Bitcoin out of Silk Road and Mt. Gox coffers.

Chinese and Russian vetoes foiled efforts to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe.

The insurgent presence has foiled efforts to help and protect the civilian population: Taliban threats -- and a few targeted murders -- have dissuaded many residents from availing themselves of U.S. reconstruction assistance.

Many of this year's election problems followed in the wake of the GOP's foiled efforts to undermine, or even steal, the election with a series of failed legal strategies to suppress the vote -- and raise false alarms about voter fraud by smearing ACORN.

The new murals are part of wider beautification works financed by the American military, the Iraqi government and aid organizations as part of an often-foiled effort to renovate Baghdad, as well as to improve its security.

It also said soldiers had foiled an effort by "armed terrorists to cross into Syria from Turkey, for the second time in a week".

He is also playing it safe, refusing to answer reporters' questions about substantive topics, including the recently foiled terrorist effort to mail explosives to the United States.

AQAP has been blamed for the foiled Christmas Day 2009 effort to bomb an airliner over Detroit and for explosives-laden parcels that were intercepted the following year aboard cargo flights.

AQAP, the Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda, has also been blamed for the foiled Christmas Day 2009 effort to bomb an airliner over Detroit and explosives-laden parcels that were intercepted the following year aboard cargo flights.