Sentence examples for thwart operations from inspiring English sources

The move is aimed, Colonel Ryder said, at "creating efficiencies and streamlining" Pentagon efforts to thwart operations by foreign intelligence services and terror networks.

Earlier this month, several Colombian publications reported claims that the former head of the Administrative Security Department (DAS)—the secret police had worked hand in glove with leaders of Colombia's right-wing paramilitaries to murder trade-union leaders and thwart operations against drug-traffickers.The allegations came in interviews with Rafael García, a former DAS official.

In his comments, Mr. Mueller said officials were on a "very high state of alert" because of the Afghan materials that had helped identify and thwart terror operations that he would not describe.

But only cross-border cooperation and intelligence-sharing can thwart the operations of terrorists and tackle the biggest migration challenge: of all illegal immigration, and the people smugglers and trafficking gangs who control it.

If Hurst is even half right in his assessment it means at the very least that by the time Powell and Blair sat down with leading republicans they had enough intelligence at their disposal to know what the movement's true intentions were let alone the ability to thwart IRA operations on a grand scale.

Much better that it be done by letting market forces operate and then working to improve the result than by seeking to thwart their operation.

Later, he released a statement, with a more measured tone, that mourned the civilians, police and foreign forces killed or wounded and praised the security personnel that were "up to the task of thwarting such operations".

Flynt Leverett, a former C.I.A. analyst who served until early this year on the National Security Council and is now a fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution, told me that Syria's help "let us thwart an operation that, if carried out, would have killed a lot of Americans".

But things have improved since 1982, when Italy sent a military force to Lebanon in the teeth of opposition from many of its soldiers' wives, who attempted to thwart the operation by refusing to provide the necessary signatures for their husbands' passports.

"Recreating a common carrier regime for broadband ISP service now, years after the Commission set a different regulatory course, would thwart the operation of the 'virtuous cycle' of investment, competition, and innovation and throw the industry into disarray".

Increasing public investment in higher education with the goal of college for everyone — in effect, taxpayer-subsidized social promotion — is thwarting the operation of the sorting mechanism.