Sentence examples for stymie in from inspiring English sources

Then, he was cast as Stymie in the pilot for The Little Rascals (1977) – a new version of the Our Gang children's comedy films that had been popular from 1922 to 1944 – but it failed to attract attention.

The U.S. had in effect banned the stymie in 1941, but the Brits loved the thing and hung on to it for another decade.

Every human being reading this has at some point had a computer fail them — a blue screen of death, a driver error — and that mental block will stymie in my mind people's trust and willingness to be in one.

I am inspired to think of what other diseases and problems we can similarly stymie in the future.

Mr. Hariri really has no choice but to stand firm in Hezbollah's game of chicken: even if he could stymie Hezbollah in the short term by giving in, he would eventually have no authority at all were he to abandon the rule of law.

The company claims that violations like this could stymie investment in similar products in the future.

Practices will retain 70% of any savings (the PCT will keep the rest), provided that they are ploughed back into better services.One potential drawback is that GPs' revived role in purchasing may stymie competition in the primary care they provide.

THE NEWS Teachers and state employees staged raucous protests and sit-ins in the capital, Madison, and Democrats maneuvered to stymie action in the state Senate after the new Republican governor, Scott Walker, put forward a plan to sharply curtail collective bargaining rights and slash benefits for most public-sector workers.

The 128-page report detailed the tobacco industry's successful effort to stymie legislation in Lucerne, a tourist center, to require nonsmoking sections in restaurants.

A tough package of measures approved by Israel's security cabinet late on Tuesday appear to have done little to stymie violence in the country as two more stabbing attacks were carried out in the center of Jerusalem today and clashes continued in the West Bank.

These flaws are rooted in the inherent characteristics of nursing homes and nursing home residents and stymie researchers in their attempts to differentiate between nursing homes providing different levels of quality of care.