The commissioner's meeting with the labor minister, Andreas Loverdos, was almost thwarted when about 200 demonstrators tried to storm the ministry building in central Athens.
Mr. Bush's campaign officials not only thwarted debate about abortion, but they also deemed it destructive to let delegates debate whether to make Republican National Committee members automatic delegates.
The Asia Minor Disaster of 1922, in which Greece's expansionist designs on the Ottoman Empire were finally thwarted, brought about a radical change in the orientation of Greek literature.
Western diplomats, United Nations officials and the Ethiopians seem to be turning against the transitional president, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, a cantankerous former warlord in his 70s who has thwarted just about every peace proposal.
At the same time, there is a higher narrative arc made from linguistic misunderstandings and slapstick, that is all about love, thwarted romance and ultimately about getting old and dying.
That's Bizet's genius, ultimately, and also an analogue to the plot itself, which is about thwarted love.
Academics and a network forensics expert presented a sweeping indictment of the reliability of electronic voting machines, and voters testified about thwarted efforts to vote for Mr. Rawl.
One busy lunch shift for these five co-workers at a Texas diner constitutes Don Wilson Glenn's "American Menu," a meaningful, casually observant play about thwarted hope.
(Although Passalus's hilarious patter about the trials of acting in ancient Greece illustrate Mr. Greenspan's classical bona fides, the play is more clearly patterned on Chekhov's ensemble dramas about thwarted lives).
In plot terms it's familiar campus comedy material about thwarted ambition, rejection and final success due to losers becoming winners through burying personal pride and working as a team.
