Sentence examples for thwart plans 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.

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.

It was a chronicle of thwarted plans.

Singlehandedly the marines say, he saved remnants of his unit in Vietnam and thwarted plans of.

ASIO and police, he claimed, have thwarted plans for "a number of mass-casualty attacks on our soil".

It thwarted plans to put up a building next to the high school (and thus hide the wall).