As a reporter, it's annoying to have officials stymieing your efforts to inform the public — but it's a telling sign, too, of the psychological impact a tragedy like this can have on everyone involved, however tangentially.
Late last year, the Associated Press combined reporting with the Center for Public Integrity to roll out a multi-part series on the $880 million spent on lobbying and political contributions by the opioid industry in a decade long effort to stymie efforts to control these powerful drugs.
Unregulated and evasive on the Islamic street, the web of hawala continues to stymie the efforts of counterterrorism agencies.
Those who oppose it may well seize on administrative fumbles to stymie future efforts at immigration reform.
During the 1850s, Bingham tried to stymie the efforts of Jackson and other Missourians to interfere in Kansas Territory in the name of spreading slavery.
The coalition has previously been accused of allowing a row between David Cameron and Nick Clegg, over whether multiculturalism has failed, to stymie its efforts to tackle the problem.
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.
The Kremlin's relationship with Washington became increasingly frosty in the last several years as Russia began to try to reclaim some of its old power and chafed at what it saw as Bush administration attempts to stymie its efforts.
Yet, perhaps for that very reason, the conservative establishment, led by Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is trying to stymie his efforts to translate his electoral mandate into policies aimed at opening Iran economically and politically.
Under sequestration rules, Republicans would need Democrats to increase the military budget, a requirement that is likely to stymie Republican efforts to pay for increases in the Pentagon budget with cuts in other spending, including social programs.
It is also important to distinguish between UN agencies like OCHA (Organisation for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), which deliver aid and ameliorate suffering, and UN bodies like the Security Council that regularly stymie those efforts through diplomatic divisiveness.
