Sentence examples for foiled him from inspiring English sources

That led to the poor decision-making that has foiled him in other years.

He might not have scored: Cech might have foiled him, he might even have dribbled round the keeper, then missed.

But the town foiled him by mandating that breezeways can be only twice as long as they are wide.

It is James against Thibodeau's defense, which foiled him in two of the last four postseasons when Thibodeau was an assistant with Boston.

The Red Sox foiled him again, pounding him for five runs, five hits and four walks over three and a third innings.

Cissé almost atoned for his earlier miss by redirecting a Mitrovic header towards goal, but Ruddy foiled him with a full-length save.

But the metaphor is clear: Mailer's efforts to dissect feminism, and to assert his own voice over those of the women on the panel, end up with him foiled, fruitlessly battling with himself.

State television's decision to report a foiled assassination plot against him in the week of the election provoked cynical laughter.

Ayad Allawi, who heads the Iraqiya Party, has spoken in recent days about a foiled plot to kill him at Baghdad's international airport.

In 2009 a plot to kill him was foiled by international police, and arrests made in Ireland and the US – including the American Colleen LaRose, who became known as "Jihad Jane".

President Evo Morales said that three men shot dead by an elite police squad in the eastern city of Santa Cruz on Thursday morning were involved in a foiled plot to assassinate him, his vice president and his chief of staff.