Sentence examples for thwart moves from inspiring English sources

It claimed Israel was attempting to thwart moves towards reconciliation between the rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas.

Sir Mervyn King Mr Darling says he feared, that Sir Mervyn King, the Bank of England Governor, was trying to thwart moves to tackle the financial crisis.

John S. Kavulich, the president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, said the expulsions might be part of a drive by hard-liners in the administration to toughen the American position toward Havana and thwart moves in Congress toward greater liberalization.

Mrs May also accused the party's Liberal Democrat Coalition partners of thwarting moves to tighten border controls.

Labour strategists believe they will be able to portray the Tories as the supporters of the status quo if the opposition thwarts moves to get the referendum promise on to the statute book.

They are also sometimes used as props in a ballet, choreographed in 1988, that has only one formal dance segment, a solo danced by Damian Woetzel that is full of eerily thwarted moves.

More than anything, though, it is the 6 billion euros in debt that A.C.S. has used to buy a controlling stake of the German construction company Hochtief, and a similar but now thwarted move to take over Iberdrola, the Spanish utilities giant, that is at the heart of investor concerns.

Who is to say we cannot do that?" Blackpool's manager claims he is at a loss to identify one reason for the team's contrasting results but has studied them all, from Charlie Adam's thwarted move to Liverpool on transfer deadline day to the absence of his captain, David Vaughan and DJ Campbell, two other vital components, due to injury and suspension.

The Palestinians accused Mr. Sharon of setting new conditions in an attempt to thwart peace moves.

Mr Abe has sought to thwart any moves by the party to undercut him by making secretary-general of the LDP the other of Mr Koizumi's two key former reformers, Hidenao Nakagawa, the new prime minister's strongest backer.

But the National Basketball Players Association filed a grievance to thwart the move, putting the matter before the arbitrator Roger Kaplan.