Sentence examples for thwart the efforts from inspiring English sources

Mr Hussein is now working busily to thwart the efforts of the present President Bush to do the same.A notable success has come with Syria.

There are also pitfalls that might be ruled out by common sense but which nevertheless thwart the efforts of many Americans trying to save money.

There's a reason Donald Trump spent so much time attempting to thwart the efforts of Graydon Carter's 90s satire magazine, Spy.

Together they argue that term limits eliminate the Council's institutional knowledge, damage the delicate legislative process and thwart the efforts of minority members to rise to positions of power.

It is a story that seems designed to resonate with Iraqis who remain suspicious of a man who attracted a large percentage of the Sunni vote, and who needs to thwart the efforts of Shiite coalitions that threaten to combine to preclude him from again becoming prime minister.

But few people understand what they are and how they work — especially how they have worked to create a population in which 64 percent of adults and a third of children are overweight or obese, or how they thwart the efforts of so many people to shed those unwanted pounds and keep them off once and for all.

And like nature you get to know them only by walking around them, although the works partly thwart the effort.

In the past week, graduate students in ten departments at Yale filed for a union election, and the Harvard administration, in what seems to be an obvious effort to thwart the effort to form a local affiliated with the U.A.W., announced several improvements in the school's financial package for Ph.D. students.

Yet the intense interest in the spectrum may thwart the effort to make it the basis for a new nationwide wireless network.

But a police official shouted "lock them down," prompting a wall of nearly 12 bicycle cops to thwart the effort.

Even if a medication succeeds in harnessing one of those components to the task of weight loss, others are likely to step in to thwart the effort.