Sentence examples for thwart as from inspiring English sources

Few thriller writers require MacGuffins — the secret whatever-it-is that a hero needs to find or thwart — as elaborate as those in Mr. Child's books, and it's hard for the author to dream up villains worth Reacher's attention.

The Obama administration has been trying to build public support for its surveillance programs, which trace back to the Bush administration, by arguing that they are subject to strict safeguards and court oversight and that they have helped thwart as many as 54 terrorist events.

But in setting their sights lower and relying on lone suicide bombers, rather than complicated plots with several confederates, these Qaeda affiliates may also pose a threat that is harder to thwart, as the Christmas Day incident demonstrated.

His bid to acquire Qwest earlier this year was thwarted as well.

But the researchers also developed their own attacks, which Resin thwarted as well.

The Vopos thwarted as many as they could by throwing tear-gas bombs at the firemen holding rescue nets.

Hang on, it also says here that Liverpool's long-term interest in Mesut Ozil will be thwarted, as will Manchester United's, by the player's desire to stay at Real Madrid.

We must do whatever is necessary to assure that the fulfillment of his life long dream of health care for all is not thwarted as well.

"We had formulated a plan that we would try and thwart them as much as we can while at the same time, when we had the ball ourselves, try and manoeuvre it.

And regulators beyond campus walls often thwart innovation as well.

As a boy, Hughes absorbed his mother's bitterness about her marriage and her thwarted career, as well as his father's anxiety and rancor over racism in America and what he presumed to be its cause: blacks themselves.