They are patriotic, hard-working and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.
The international community would be wise to work closely with Mr. Kibaki to frustrate the intentions and efforts of terrorists seeking to strike in the region, and to dismantle any existing terrorist infrastructure.
Here, too, plant pests frustrate human intentions.
Experts in election law said that Florida courts have the power to order new elections or change the results if they decide that voting problems have frustrated voters' intentions.
Catherine then gave her lover the title of count, promoted him to the rank of adjutant general, and made him director-general of engineers and general in chief, but her political mentor, Nikita Panin, frustrated her intention of marrying Orlov.
In the years ahead, Mr. Crocker sees, if anything, an increasingly fraught foreign landscape in a world set afire by war and revolution, a chapter bound to frustrate the best intentions and most sophisticated strategies of the United States.
There is a clear intention to frustrate the presumed purpose of the 1994 act, namely to promote the opportunities for Travellers to lead a settled life on their own land.
We all think that those around us have the ability to read our minds — and we get frustrated when our intentions are misunderstood.
Several of the experts said that might have convinced Bush strategists that a federal court would be more willing to halt a recount that, the Bush lawyers would argue, appeared aimed at frustrating voters' true intentions.
With his intentions frustrated, Saumarez ordered his squadron to withdraw, five of his ships limping out of the bay while the batted Hannibal remained trapped.
