Sentence examples for stymie their ability from inspiring English sources

Republicans had hoped to use the measure to demonstrate that the abrupt change in their leadership caused by the ouster of Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi would not stymie their ability to move legislation.

But conservatives, including the ubiquitous and powerful Revolutionary Guard, will not just be loth to accept a plan that would stymie their ambition to acquire a nuclear bomb, as any final comprehensive deal must seek to do.

In Assassin, Dyer plays Jamie, a charisma-deficient hitman hired by both (count 'em) Kemp brothers to kill a corrupt council official attempting to stymie their plans for a new Croydon nightclub.

Many researchers are worried that a lawsuit claiming federally funded hESC research violates a ban on research that destroys human embryos could stymie their work.

Though engineers initially hoped to apply experiences from the U.S. to things such as runway construction, they quickly learned that blowing sand, high temperatures and locust invasions could stymie their efforts.

In some cases, it will stymie their plan.

This can stymie their career advancement or professional success, Hutchins says.

Lower ranked personnel like Watts and a Sergeant Mushtaq Saddiq (Babou Ceesay, Half of a Yellow Sun) stymie their efforts, buying precious time.

Tomorrow's entrepreneurs deserve an economic system that encourages and rewards them for solving problems, and does not stymie their creativity with red tape or oppressive tax codes.

It can hinder their ability to communicate.

It caught the Germans by surprise and went a long way toward stymieing their efforts to go forward.