Sentence examples for thwart ground from inspiring English sources

A surprising number of exhibits involved pilotless armed surveillance drones, anti-mine vehicles and lasers to thwart ground rocket attacks – all designed for British operations against the Taliban.

Commanders say that precautions can be taken and new technological devices can be installed on planes (the military is looking at using lasers to thwart ground-fire attacks), but that in a place like Iraq, aircraft will be shot at and sometimes hit.

In tests by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission since 1992 to evaluate nuclear plant antiterrorism measures, 47 percent of reactors failed to thwart mock terrorist ground attacks.

Raised by Wolves occupies the same grotesque, sexually thwarted, English low ground as Julia Davis's Nighty Night or most Mike Leigh (not for nothing is Grampy played by Philip Jackson, who I remember as a reptilian businessman in Leigh's High Hopes, hurling his sheepskin car coat on the pretentious settee as a sexual overture to his no-less-unspeakable wife).

During the Pāhoa lava flow crisis, early forecasts of flow behavior were thwarted by hidden ground cracks in the Puna forest reserve (Poland et al. 2016).

The plane flew the last 30 miles just 500 feet above the ground to thwart surface-to-air missiles.

But our efforts have been repeatedly thwarted both on the ground and in the United Nations.

Hundreds of city cops had been detailed to the grounds, to thwart potential merrymakers.

Mathews contributed both offensively and defensively in the deciding game, hitting a two-run double to put his team ahead and later making a backhanded stop of a hard grounder to thwart the Yankees' ninth-inning rally.

They regained some of the lost ground and thwarted renewed Confederate attacks.

Tyson said it would assume all risk of antitrust prohibitions, including an agreement to pay a $70 million breakup fee if the acquisition is thwarted on antitrust grounds.