Sentence examples for thwart the work from inspiring English sources

Mr. Quinn said he was not attempting to thwart the work of the Revenue Department in its challenge of tax exemptions for the Northwestern, Decatur or Edward hospitals.

Later that year, Mr. Clinton ordered airstrikes against Iraq on the eve of the House's vote to impeach him, citing Mr. Hussein's efforts to thwart the work of United Nations weapons inspectors.

Instead of implementing national initiatives to disarm, Iraq maintains institutions whose sole purpose is to thwart the work of the inspectors.

The organization replaced an earlier monitoring body, the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, which was disbanded after Iraq thwarted the work of inspectors and the Clinton administration responded in 1998 by ordering air strikes.

The Reins Act would short-circuit all this and thwart the effective work of government.

The Croats set up a whole team specifically to thwart the tribunal's work.

The union leader, James P. Hoffa, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, accused the two Democrats of trying "to thwart the interests of working people and the public at large".

"We are outraged that any politician, much less a self-proclaimed, pro-worker Democrat, would line up with business interests to thwart the interests of working people and the public at large," he said, in an apparent reference to the fact that Mr. Cuomo joined with Change-NY, a pro-business, antitax group, in attacking Mr. Pataki's for brokering the health-care deal.

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

While Iraqi security forces work to thwart the militant networks, the American role here continues to evolve and diminish.

Mr. Furlong told The Express-News that his team filed more than 260 "atmospheric protection reports" and that their work helped thwart the assassinations of Afghan allies.