Sentence examples similar to thwart plan from inspiring English sources

Other victories included helping to thwart plans to build a Great America theme park near the historic site.

For example, the report cites a "significant" skills shortage in the nuclear power field, which threatens to thwart plans to build new nuclear power stations by 2020.

Yigal Amir, an ultra-nationalist Jew who was convicted of murdering Mr. Rabin, has said he acted to thwart plans to transfer land to the Palestinians.

But it also regards government financing for its schools as vital and may not move politically to thwart plans for a pullout.

Beeching's legacy has been to thwart plans to fulfil the country's renewed need for rail infrastructure, though there have been some benefits.

And the Saudis share with most governments, from Western ones to the Afghan parties and Pakistan, a desire to thwart plans that Iran may have for meddling in the Afghan mire.

Various government regulations require that coal companies return the stripped area to its "approximate original contour," or "reclaim" the land for development in a state whose undulating topography can thwart plans for even a simple parking lot.

In August, San Francisco transit officials turned off the electricity to local cellphone towers to thwart planned police brutality protests at the city's train stations.

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama was fiery when he made his public statement after meeting with his national-security team about the airline breach: "We are determined to thwart plans to kill Americans... we face a challenge of the utmost urgency".

And was it nice to tell the story of Biden's thwarted plan to get the President a Wii for his birthday?

Museum and university officials say that they are not afraid of controversy, having grown accustomed to it during the battle over their thwarted plan to close the Rose.