The chances of a conclusive discovery, or of a conclusive Iraqi effort to thwart one, are growing.
One might therefore favor the related but more extreme strategy of making sure that one's future self does not have the power to thwart one's current plans.
So now, Lake County may sacrifice all to thwart one.
The frozen seas and inhospitable lands of the Arctic thwarted one expedition after another.
Today's threat landscape is often compared to a high stakes game of whac-a-mole: just as security professionals focus on thwarting one mole-like threat, others are already popping up.
In a day of near misses on Thursday, several suicide bombers were thwarted, one by alert waiters in a cafe in a trendy corner of Jerusalem.
An obscure European bureaucrat had thwarted one of America's leading industrial empires.
Gov. Rick Perry today called a third special session of the Legislature to redraw the Congressional districts of Texas, and Senate Democrats who thwarted one of two previous efforts by fleeing the state agreed to return and attend.
Although Taylor thwarted one such advance by clearing off the line from Àlvaro Negredo, the same striker doubled City's advantage at the end of a break initiated by James Milner deep in stoppage time.
For most of the game, this defense had played up to billing, thwarting one of the N.F.L.'s most explosive offenses and removing the dynamic Fitzgerald almost entirely from the Cardinals' game plan.
