Sentence examples for thwart efforts from inspiring English sources

They have bribed local officials to thwart efforts by federal ones.

The unusual structure of the agency has also helped thwart efforts to overhaul it, despite its problems.

Hackers can further thwart efforts to identify or catch them by leapfrogging from one "hop point" to another.

Despite a growing number of opportunities, the market volatility and the weak financing environment continue to thwart efforts across the Continent to complete deals.

He is also trying to thwart efforts to kill a proposal for a new agency to protect consumers from financial excesses and fraud.

We must do everything possible to encourage, not thwart, efforts to bring biosimilars to patients in need of affordable treatment options.

Overwhelming public support for Mr. bin Laden among the area's religiously conservative Pashtun tribes continues to thwart efforts to arrest him, they said.

And they had mixed success in trying to thwart efforts to ban smoking on airline flights, trains, at work and in public places.

Mr. Levin said the bill would thwart efforts by "terrorists and other criminals to use our own financial systems against us".

Sharp fertility declines in many industrialized and middle-income countries had already challenged another old belief: that culture and religion would thwart efforts to cut fertility.

SpaceX supporters say tradition and old ways of thinking can be the enemy of innovation and thwart efforts to open the frontier of space.