The purpose, the officials said, was less to thwart terrorists than to hide evidence of a clandestine relationship between the Tinners and the C.I.A.
But in interviews last summer with The New York Times, American officials said they had urged the destruction less to thwart terrorists than to hide evidence of a secret relationship between the Tinners and the C.I.A.
His plans for constitutional reform aside, Mr Brown has been behaving less like a thwarted ideologue than a bare-knuckles campaigner.
Kaepernick was thwarted less by crowd noise than a relentless defense which chased him all night long – accepting that he might occasionally elude them on a bootleg play, but never giving him time to beat them with his arm.
Often, their ambitions have been thwarted less by political enemies than by nettlesome coalition allies, especially Ms. Banerjee, leader of the Trinamool Congress Party, who has personally blocked an important water treaty with neighboring Bangladesh, as well as the government's plans to open the retail sector to more foreign investment.
Perhaps we will even learn something about our own smug selves, unless we are thwarted less by cowardice than by simple intellectual laziness.
When she was younger, these dualisms helped her tackle roles that might have thwarted a less cool customer.
This year's much larger Kuwaiti request for the loss of less tangible things like thwarted sales ran into technical objections from France, which requested a delay to have its own experts review the claim.
But they are less able to thwart another of Mr Dahlan's game-plans: staging a comeback in Hamas-ruled Gaza, where he was born.
Maybe it isn't surprising that immigrants tend to start new businesses at twice the rate of native-born Americans; but maybe it is surprising that they're making waves on the startup innovation.The Trump-esque "Let's build a wall to keep 'em out" strategy is actually less likely to thwart imaginary rapists, and more likely to result in major losses to the GDP).
