Sentence examples for this was thwarted from inspiring English sources

He attended grammar school and gained an Oxford scholarship, but this was thwarted by his national service in 1942.

Again this was thwarted by Mario, with the assistance of his brother, Luigi.

Offa's Dyke was supposed to form an early distinct line but this was thwarted by Gruffudd ap Llewellyn, who reclaimed swathes of land beyond the dyke.

Because the ferry rights had been in existence for more than 600 years, an Act of Parliament was needed, and this was thwarted by a petition containing 84 signatures, presented by the people of Weel to the House of Lords.

Alongside his colleague Wei Pu, Shen planned to map the orbital paths of the Moon and the planets in an intensive five-year project involving daily observations, yet this was thwarted by political opponents at court.

This effort was thwarted by the Brandeis board, faculty and disciplinary committees.

After this effort was thwarted by the State Supreme Court, some Republican legislators even floated the possibility of bringing impeachment proceedings against some of the justices.

This plan was thwarted by the flood of applicants from ex-service personnel returning from the second world war, so he switched to zoology.

This precaution was thwarted by Stritch striking a deal with a local liquor store to deliver gift-wrapped bottles of champagne with fake messages of encouragement from celebrities ("Have a great show! from Judy Garland. xx").

Sympathetic neighbours found her another, but this was soon vandalised, and Naysmith moved first to a car park, then to the greenery next to Stamford Brook underground station, cultivating a small plot of land, growing flowers and tomatoes and cooking over an open fire, until this too was thwarted, because of repairs to the adjacent boundary fence.

To be sure, these problems will not occur for everyone, but the fact that my every attempt to make this happen was thwarted on a healthy, normally-configured machine is pretty discouraging to me.