Sentence examples for stymie him from inspiring English sources

The two men's dysfunctional rivalry had paralysed the government, with Blair allowing Brown to stymie him.

A campaign to stymie him by groups in the south linked to al-Qaeda has been contained, though not defeated.

Crosby has only been held scoreless in three straight playoff games once, and even if Boston continues to stymie him, Julien knows others are capable of chipping in.

Mr. Qiao said authorities did all they could to stymie him, keeping his name off the ballot, and threatening his student volunteers.

Mr. Qiao said authorities did all they could to stymie him, keeping his name off the ballot, threatening his student volunteers, even forcibly collecting the red bookmarks he had printed with the slogan: "I am the master of my ballot".

Although Hannibal respected Fabius as the one Roman who understood how to stymie him with an avoidance strategy, he had also correctly guessed that Fabius's conservative nature would root the commander and the bulk of his forces in camp until daybreak.

Not that Garcia's rotation spot was in jeopardy — "Because they're older, people tend to think, is this the end every time they had a bad start," Manager Joe Girardi said — but it reassured the Yankees to see him stymie the Rays with a nasty splitter that challenged catcher Russell Martin all game.

In particular, he is said to have sympathetic contacts in the army, police and CIO who may tell him how to stymie some of Mr Mugabe's old rigging tricks, because they were the ones who executed them before.

It begins with a light touch: the first image we have of Lincoln shows an unrecognizable life-size figure draped in a military cloak and wearing a "Scotch plaid cap" — just as a New York Times reporter mistakenly described him — trying to stymie any assassination attempts as he entered Washington for his inauguration.

Some of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters (and, in a different, cautionary spirit, a few people on the left) have taken to using "the Deep State" to describe a nexus of institutions — the intelligence agencies, the military, powerful financial interests, Silicon Valley, various federal bureaucracies — that, they believe, are conspiring to smear and stymie a President and bring him low.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The jumbled Republican presidential race shifted Wednesday to South Carolina, where Mitt Romney's rivals aimed fresh criticism at him in an effort to stymie any momentum gained from his victory in the Michigan primary the day before.