Sentence examples for the thwarting from inspiring English sources

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the thwarting

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To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.

  • The police thwarted the would-be assassin.

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Its beauty wells from its sorrow, because the love between Ennis and Jack is most credible not in the making but in the thwarting.

Lula, Naím noted, "has supported the thwarting of democracy across Latin America".

Whether Mr. Ashcroft's alarming presentation led to the thwarting of a single terrorist remains unknown.

Protesters are angered not only by the thwarting of their desire to become closer to the West, but by police violence against the demonstrators.

During these regimes, the thwarting of social reforms promised by the revolution of 1944 made restive elements of the population increasingly receptive to guerrilla resistance.

Purim commemorates the thwarting of a plot to destroy the Jews of ancient Persia 2,400 years ago, as recounted in the Book of Esther.

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These dramas invariably playact the thwarted aspirations of American dudehood.

The thwarted political orator in Brevoort leaps forth.

The thwarted and the spurned, their psyches warped by repression and rejection.

But the feeling of frustration mirrors, with uncomfortable closeness, the thwarted reader's.

And Alexander declined to identify the thwarted attacks, arguing that might aid potential terrorists.

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