This technical hurdle has stymied progress toward understanding persistence.
Corruption has stymied progress since independence.
Vastly outnumbered, they launched a series of counterattacks that stymied rapidly advancing British forces, enabling thousands of American soldiers to evade encirclement and certain death or capture.
In Syria, after weeks of reports suggesting that the use of air power had stymied rebel advances, the opposition claimed on Tuesday that it had consolidated some gains.
At this point, however, Afshin launched his Turkish horse-archers in a ferocious counter-attack which stymied the Byzantine advance and allowed the Arab forces to regroup.
Strategically, Goeben played a very important role: she helped bring the Ottoman Empire into the war as a member of the Central Powers, and by acting as a fleet in being the ship prevented Anglo-French attempts to force the Bosporus, and similarly stymied a possible advance by the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
A culture of mismanagement stymied any progress.
But after changing the name of both the company and the water along with the shape of the bottle, the executives were still stymied on how to advance the brand.
The Japanese stymied the 8th Marines' advance along the coast.
For decades, the complexity of cervical, ovarian, endometrial and vulvar cancers stymied researchers; however, several advances have begun to extend women's lives.
But at the end, Isis, with its victorious advance in Iraq stymied by American intervention, decided to take barbaric revenge on a helpless captive.
