Sentence examples for thwart running from inspiring English sources

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He can really get into the backfield (see 2 05) and thwart running games, but more importantly, he loves to rush the passer.

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Corey has just attended, on a Saturday in late September, 2006, as "the smell of rotting apples was drifting up from the meadow," the funeral of Senator Henry Bonwiller, a local product who in 1972 made a strong but thwarted run at the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States.

Could this have been a hidden story of obsession and thwarted love running in tandem with conservative America's slow and resentful acknowledgement of the powerful gay-rights voting bloc?

Trying to thwart gangs without running afoul of constitutional rights, the Chicago City Council has passed an anti-loitering ordinance that allows the police to order suspicious crowds to scatter.

This year's much larger Kuwaiti request for the loss of less tangible things like thwarted sales ran into technical objections from France, which requested a delay to have its own experts review the claim.

Among the choice of participles: flouting can be confused with flaunting; thwarting has a wart running through it; contravening is bookish and frustrating, in this context, is especially inapt.

The play follows an ex-soldier named Turner released back into civilian life after the independence of India in 1947 only to see his livelihood decimated by property speculators and his political ambitions in the Conservative party thwarted by a candidate running on a "modernisation" ticket.

Part of the reason is that at the same time consumers and businesses have been borrowing less and saving more, the Federal Reserve in Washington has been pouring money into the economy to thwart fearful consumers' runs on banks and assure that when they do want to borrow, they can get the money.

To spite and thwart him, Sam runs for the Head-of-House position so she can call the shots.

They stunt and spin and break down running lanes and thwart passing lanes.

Our plan to visit a museum that morning is thwarted by some kind of running race preventing us – and everyone else, it seems – from accessing the half of Paris that lies the other side of it.

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