Sentence examples for frustrated plans from inspiring English sources

LONDON — The Pakistani police arrested Pervez Musharraf, the nation's former military ruler, on Thursday, opening a new criminal prosecution against him that frustrated plans by his supporters to fly him out of Pakistan.

His main task now is to re-equip the armed forces with submarines, fighter jets, helicopters and other aircraft, awarding contracts that could be worth $40 billion, avoiding both the graft and indecision that have long frustrated plans for military modernisation.Another welcome figure is Suresh Prabhu, a brainy man partial to baggy jumpers.

So what in May's record as home secretary justifies this somewhat darker reading that she is not quite as nice as she looks, and do any of her previously frustrated plans hint at what she might do now she is prime minister?

At the same time Gaz de France (GDF) revealed just how long and drawn-out its frustrated plan to merge with Suez, a French utility group, has become.The MAN deal failed because its approach was seen as hostile by Scania's two biggest shareholders, Volkswagen (now in effect controlled by the Porsche and Piëch families) and Investor, the investment company owned by the Swedish Wallenberg family.

But decades of contention, laced with downturns in the real estate market, frustrated building plans.

Though Wellington's ministry survived, it was weakened, and Huskisson's sudden death frustrated tentative plans for reconciliation.

That said, recent inflation and the slow pace of development of infrastructure and distribution networks have hampered large-scale foreign retail investment and frustrated growth plans for retailers doing business in the country.

"You can feel the music vibrating through the walls," said Mr. Strauss, who added that he and his wife are so frustrated they plan to knock through the walls of another apartment they own in the back of their building and move their bedroom there, away from the commotion.

The attempt would indeed be made in 1759, but Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who might have become King Charles III that year, petulantly frustrated Choiseul's plans.

His introduction of the much criticised Matías Delgado had added bite to their pursuit and his game-plan frustrated Chelsea throughout.

He added that the department was "tremendously disappointed and frustrated" with the plan and that it "sends the wrong message" to corporate criminals and to the public.