Sentence examples for thwart for from inspiring English sources

Gave them men's names with a on the end - Thomasina and Horatia - not so much in thwart for boy-children as out of a strange, bohemian affectation of her mother's, who got their names from the Times' death columns to place herself in the vanguard of the 1960s vogue for preposterous first names.

The efforts of Capello's team to reach tranquillity were thwarted for a spell.

And the trainer Bob Baffert, thwarted for the third time, cries behind his dark shades.

As a result, his advancement within the Army was thwarted for several years.

The officials were deliberately vague about how many attacks had been thwarted, for fear of alarming an already jumpy populace here.

The Nets wanted to escape to Brooklyn, but their owner, Bruce C. Ratner, has been thwarted for a few years because of the economy and land-use niceties there.

So why are the police being excluded?" The legislation had been thwarted for years in the Assembly under Speaker Jack Collins, a South Jersey Republican who retired this year.

I'm sure Dourif himself would see his career as anything but thwarted for all that he never did get that Oscar, and we should follow his example.

"We still face the danger of a re-inflating housing market, unsustainable growth fed by cheap credit and real growth thwarted for want of skills".

The journeys perpetuate a history of exodus and oppression for Kurds, a community whose ambitions for statehood have been thwarted for decades by Middle Eastern governments and their Western benefactors.

It exercised its pre-emptive right to buy a 26% stake in France's second-largest telecoms company from BT for euro4 billion ($4 billion), thwarting (for now) Vodafone's designs on the company.