Sentence examples for thwart mode from inspiring English sources
The State Department immediately announced, with more candour than elegance, that it would "go into thwart mode".
Still, a senior State Department official said today that the United States would go into "thwart mode" if Mr. Blix sought to return to Iraq without fresh instructions.
Much attention is currently being focused on the proteosome, a key component of the antigen processing pathway, and it is hoped that these studies will generate a more thorough understanding of antigen presentation, enabling us to design strategies to thwart this mode of immune escape [ 25].
Do these people know what they're doing – they are inscribing Chinua's epitaph in the negative mode of thwarted expectations.
He's the well-adjusted son of depressing parents: George McFly (Crispin Glover, in milquetoast-serial-killer mode), all thwarted dreams and corny jokes, and Lorraine McFly (Lea Thompson), all wistfulness, vodka, and resignation.
Quicker than you can say "Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the Tevatron," which is one of the book's eventual settings, David is violently thwarting his captors in high action mode.
His influences would seem to be Andy Warhol, Richard Prince and Michael Asher; his primary mode of operation is the thwarting of expectations known in art circles as intervention.
Second, a robust sliding mode control is proposed in order to stabilize the system and to thwart the effect of model uncertainties and external disturbances.
It is a central dogma of the low-carb lifestyle: that while avoiding carbohydrates will force the human body into fat-burning mode, any diet that fails to suppress insulin will trap body fat in place and thwart a dieter's hope of shifting to a leaner, healthier body type.
Television has continuous access to the mass of people, but it deals in the detritus of adulthood and operates within a mode and according to an attention span that is essentially childish (and seems to have a thwarted child's hostility to the ideal of dignity).
