Sentence examples for stymied to from inspiring English sources

Yet public support for both measures was stymied, to some extent, by the specific way they were worded.

Politics appears to have stymied plans to coincide one with the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Indigenous citizenship referendum.

The main teachers' union (an affiliate of COSATU) has stymied attempts to link teachers' pay to performance.

Alongside labour unions, the ministry has so far stymied efforts to make it easier to fire full-time workers.

Environmental groups stymied efforts to open the refuge to drilling in 1989, 1991 and 1995.

I keep wanting to baldly state some sort of vaguely political point, but then I find myself stymied as to exactly what I want to say.

In Virginia, the gun lobby has repeatedly stymied efforts to make it illegal for people subject to court injunctions to possess firearms.

We are stymied trying to identify what New York City sights to focus on, since there are so many.

While efforts have been made to combine targeted therapies, significant levels of toxicity have stymied efforts to effectively treat cancer with multi-drug combinations using currently approved therapeutics.

A strike in 1985 led Phelps Dodge to suspend production, and depressed worldwide copper prices throughout the 1990s stymied efforts to reopen the mine.

Russia's refusal to hand over the man accused of killing Mr. Litvinenko has since stymied efforts to restore normal ties.