Sentence examples for stymied in a from inspiring English sources

But the inability of the United States to persuade the United Nations to act has left her stymied in a job she has held for barely a month.

Megan Rapinoe was stymied in a bid for a second national anthem protest Wednesday night when Washington's National Women's Soccer League team moved up the pre-game ceremonies.

Now two dozen associates of the firm sat stymied in a room filled with responses they received from people they surveyed in order to get a handle on exactly what the public felt about broccoli.

It also reads as a commentary on how emerging genius can be stymied in a world obsessed with other, crueller things, such as fighting and dying for patches of land.

On May 13 , 1985 the Philadelphia police, stymied in a standoff that stemmed from a bitter conflict with a radical group called MOVE that had sputtered on and off for more than a decade, dropped an incendiary device on the row house that was the group's headquarters.

(They were stymied in an earlier attempt by a Republican Senate filibuster).

When Mr. LaGravenese was stymied in an early draft of a screenplay that became "The Fisher King," directed by Terry Gilliam and for which Mr. LaGravenese was nominated for an Academy Award in 1992, Ms. Neithardt introduced him to the Fisher King legend, an Arthurian tale involving an injured knight.

Stymied in pursuing a more meritocratic approach at the university, Mr. Zhang began criticizing the government even more forcefully.

In 1985, after Fidelity was stymied in building a new tower on Devonshire Street, it teamed up with the John Drew Management Company on the Commonwealth Pier project.

It doesn't say that this bill has been stymied in Congress for a decade — by Mr. Romney's party.

Passing the legislation would do little good if the S.E.C. and the Justice Department would be stymied in trying to conduct an investigation by an assertion of the Speech or Debate Clause to stop the case dead in its tracks.