Or, perhaps, are these countries trying to thwart foreign aggression?
The Cinco de Mayo holiday symbolizes Mexico's determination to thwart foreign aggression.
"I call on Muslims everywhere to use all means possible to thwart the aggression, including martyr operations against the belligerent American, British and Zionist invaders," he said in a statement.
In times of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, historical hostilities between Israel and Palestine and rumors of polities on the brink of rebellion, the next President must lead morally and with a justice that rallies the world to unite as one to thwart terrorism, aggression, genocide and other human atrocities, environmental and health disasters such as HIV-AID which threatens global security.
Ukraine and Europe are in danger as long as this 'dictators international' exists Europe makes an epic blunder by allowing itself to regard dictators in the post-Soviet area as lesser evils who can be used to thwart Putin's aggression.
Twentieth-century ethnologists, like Konrad Lorenz, attempted to associate laughter with group behaviour among animals in instances in which aggression is thwarted and laughlike phenomena seem to result among herds.
The almost simultaneous rise of the communist movement and the advent of Japanese aggression in the 1930s, however, thwarted the plans of Chiang and the Nationalists.
The Khartoum government has a longstanding history of thwarting humanitarian aid as part of its aggression against the people of Sudan, and surely the United States government uses its own figures (not those of an independent advocacy group) when pressuring the Khartoum government to desist.
If a country committed aggression, the League would lead its members to thwart or defeat the aggressor.
But Finland's Nokia is still holding out against Dr Jacobs's demands for WCDMA royalties and is working with Motorola to thwart another Qualcomm technology known as HDR (high data rate).Qualcomm's aggression in defence of its intellectual property is understandable, but it could backfire.
