Sentence examples for our foiled from inspiring English sources

Weston is a realistic, likable but imperfect character, and his patients speak to our foiled dreams and resilient longings, even when their problems seem overdrawn or their behavior improbable.

"I did it because the 1993 bombing was planned in a mosque in Union City, New Jersey, and a second plan was uncovered to bomb our subways, which was foiled," Giuliani said.

Our plans were quickly foiled by my lost credit card -- Avis grudgingly said I could apply for cash approval, but that it would take several hours -- so we decided to skip it and spend the morning exploring downtown, a grid of exceptionally clean streets dotted with restaurants and mostly chain stores.

And although our pool dreams were foiled and we were fooled, at least at Schrödinger's Pool there was air conditioning and good art.

Our NYC parent blog has links to the FOILed report, as does GothamSchools here, which described it as "the investigation into a top school official that you will never read" because so many pages were crossed out.

UB's attempt to foil this diabolical scheme is very nearly foiled when the Man's minion, Mr. Feather Chris Kattann), dispatches a White She-Devil (Denise Richards) to ensnare our hero, who soon trades in his fly threads for corduroys and polo sweaters and becomes a devoted watcher of NBC's super-pale Must-See TV sitcom line-up.

Our sources told us that this attempt had been foiled and the culprits arrested.

So to many of us, this week's Human Rights Watch report outlining just how many of the foiled terrorist conspiracies were, in reality, sting operations conducted by our own government – well, that came as no surprise.

If we had shared intelligence with Pakistan about our impending SEALS attack on bin Laden, the chances that it would not have leaked and been foiled are about zero.

The impending doom is thwarted, and despite all odds, our protagonist (and, by extension, we ourselves) survives: The previous attempt to end the world ends up foiled because Death, one of the Four Horsemen, falls in love with Xiaolian and Babylon, the son of Death and Xiaolian, will either serve as a threat to the apocalypse or its engine.

If so, foiled.