The word 'stymied' is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to hinder, block, or prevent progress or action. Example: The team was stymied by the lack of resources and could not complete the project on time. Another example: The new regulations have stymied the company's plans for expansion.
Mirabella denies that she has ignored the electorate and says she has been fighting for better rural services for the past six years, only to be stymied by an indifferent Labor government.
It would have stymied the national conversation and prevented the nation getting to the moment of change.
My problem – whether you believe it was brought on by lack of self-control or you perhaps recognise the danger lurking in a culture and economy that does its best to encourage the consumption of sugary, fatty foods – was one that stymied my potential, and could have killed me.
It was further stymied by bipartisan Congressional efforts, from the dawn of the Obama administration and which persist, to prevent any Guantánamo detainees from transfer to the US, even for continued detention.
Percy Grieve, also a QC, also a Conservative MP, found his career stymied by his independence of mind – and, in particular, his son says, by the difficulty whips found in putting him in any one box, not least because his wife was, alarmingly, half-French.
Since then, however, the interventionist ambitions of David Cameron have been stymied by domestic politics.
Indeed, Dr Mahathir has virtually guaranteed that cronyism will continue by retaining his policy of promoting ethnic Malay entrepreneurs.In Indonesia, politics has stymied attempts to reform big business.
The opportunity costs of stymied progress are hard to quantify, but they are likely to be vast.
So the main point of the ordinances seems to be to signal that the government does not intend to be stymied by a stroppy parliament.Mr Modi can at least point to one parliamentary landmark.
Right now, government is one of America's few growth industries.Nor is it the case that Congress has stymied the whole of Mr Obama's agenda.
In the past few months alone she has also blocked a water-sharing deal with Bangladesh Delhii's efforts to oversee anti-terrorism work; and a government anti-corruption bill.If not now, when?With Ms Banerjee as an ally, Congress looks stymied.
