Sentence examples for thwart wall from inspiring English sources

Remember the days when we would put walls around our village and place any extra walls to thwart Wall Breakers?

That's why given the choice I'd rather a wall thwart illegal entry than a person.

The schools are typically surrounded by fences or walls to thwart runaways.

The local county council halted the construction and Trump's wall was thwarted by the tiny, narrow-mouthed whorl snail, which lives in the dunes.

Rudd said he had sought to "make a huge difference" as prime minister, foreign minister and then on the international stage, until he was thwarted by a "brick wall" in the form of Turnbull.

Commissioner Ford Frick countered that the Giants' old home in Manhattan's Polo Grounds — which they had just vacated for San Francisco — had featured foul lines measuring 257 and 279 feet, with tall walls to thwart some potential homers.

Mr. Sierra had hoped to pour gasoline into the depressions and torch the whole thing — for aesthetic effect, apparently — but was thwarted, according to the wall label, by "environmental regulations (and possibly the resistance of the local community)." It's funny to read this in the context of this show, and just after seeing Ms. Bartana's video, with its spotlight on showy masculine posturing.

And regulators beyond campus walls often thwart innovation as well.

The rim of the gilded table called "The Moon Books" at Mary Boone is positioned so close to a gallery wall as to thwart circumnambulation.

Rosberg was down in 13th as his low-fuel qualifying run on the fast supersoft tyres was thwarted by Pastor Maldonado hitting a wall in his Lotus, bringing out the red flags.

In the Zhongshan state a wall system was built to thwart invasion from the states of Zhao and Qin in the southwest.