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Police officials say minority citizens are more often stopped because many live in high-crime neighborhoods, where officers are often intensively involved in efforts to thwart car thefts, muggings and, especially, shootings.

Bruce M. Smith, a former Pan Am pilot who lost his wife in the bombing of Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and became a driving force in efforts to thwart terrorists through a reward program for tips and by suing their state sponsors, died in a plane crash on Sept. 21.

Drawing lessons from events in Tunisia and Egypt, some rulers have already announced political changes and moved to cut prices on food and supplies, as well as raise spending on job creation in efforts to thwart the spreading unrest before it gets out of hand.

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It should also remind those governments of the need to counter the consistent efforts to undermine the U.N. sanctions monitoring mechanism that has served the international community well in its efforts to thwart those responsible for conflicts in Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, the DRC, Somalia, and Sudan.

The conservatives may succeed in their efforts to thwart the will of the electorate.

Livni asked if the declining price of oil was becoming leverage in the efforts to thwart Iranian financial efforts.

If it is wise, it will not persist in the efforts to thwart the overwhelming will of the people.

He presented himself as a master of the deft bureaucratic maneuver, both in his dealings with internal family rifts and with other crime clans, and in his efforts to thwart law enforcement.

The move signals a new phase in police efforts to thwart an ongoing demonstration by hundreds of members of more than 90 Native American tribes to prevent the construction of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline.

But what will matter most in the months of grinding investigation to come is what Trump said and did in his efforts to thwart the investigation of Flynn, his campaign loyalist, who was fired for lying about contacts with the Russian Ambassador.

It appears as though the CIA is -- yet again -- employing the good ol' "The Enemy of My Enemy is The Guy Who Screws Me In The End" foreign policy doctrine utilized by the United States and its allies when they supported the Afghan Mujaheddin in their efforts to thwart the occupying Soviet power.

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