Sentence examples for thwart off from inspiring English sources
'thwart off' is not a valid phrase in written English
The phrase 'thwart off' does not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, nor does it have a usage that is widely accepted and understood. The correct phrase is 'thwart off attempts' or 'thwart off threats' and it is used to describe the process of actively attempting to prevent or protect against something. For example, "The security team has been working hard to thwart off any potential security threats."
An optimistic Maria had it installed to thwart off bad energy.
However, it is unclear from the comments on the earnings call what NetApp's specific strategies are to thwart off competitive threats from both traditional competitors and new entrants.
And why would they when their immediate worry was how to thwart off hunger for the moment and fend for the next meal.
This is done out of extreme precaution to provide children skills to thwart off potential dangers like kidnapping or physical harm.
That work is important and deserving of the publicity but the coverage reinforces a narrative Pittman is trying to thwart: that off-track Thoroughbreds are all destined for either the rescue farm or the slaughterhouse.
The district has harboured several other Islamist attackers, including Ayoub el-Khazzani, 25, whose attack on a high-speed Thalys train in August was thwarted by off-duty US soldiers, and Mehdi Nemmouche, who killed three people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014.
In so doing, Mr. Bush is taking a calculated gamble that no matter how much hue and cry his new strategy may provoke, in the end the American people will give him more time to turn around the war in Iraq and Congress will not have the political nerve to thwart him by cutting off money for the war.
And when you consider Sky's record of being prepared to spend big to see off or thwart potential competition (look no further than the £900m-plus cost of its 17.9% stake in ITV, which stopped NTL's attempt to buy ITV in its tracks), the rivals are right to be worried.
It reminded me of what Richard Seiden said about people thwarted from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.
Suleiman is intensely close to his mother, an alcoholic and thwarted feminist, married off to his father at 14.
Obtaining a Police Department list of all would-be jumpers who were thwarted from leaping off the Golden Gate between 1937 and 1971 — an astonishing 515 individuals in all — he painstakingly culled death-certificate records to see how many had subsequently "completed".
