"This is what we were worried about -- that Telmex would use the judicial system to thwart the independence of the regulatory agencies".
Israel also looks to many as increasingly out of step with a changing region, in maintaining the occupation, expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank and thwarting Palestinian independence in the near future.
Might Mr Chen miscalculate that China's leaders would be too concerned about a boycott in the run-up to the games to try thwart an independence bid?Despite the furore back in 2001 when the Bush administration agreed to help Taiwan buy more advanced aircraft, ships and submarines, Mr Chen's government has yet to make the purchases.
In the nineteen-twenties and thirties, Churchill had been loudest among the reactionaries who were determined not to lose India, "the jewel in the crown," and, as Prime Minister during the Second World War, he tried every tactic to thwart Indian independence.
Erdoğan said that Turkey, currently battling an insurgency by its own Kurdish minority, would also take political and economic measures to thwart Kurdish independence hopes, including potentially cutting off oil exports from the region.
And aside from these young characters' drive for independence — thwarted by various forms of switch-bearing authorities — I never found their mixture of cuteness and carnivorous appetites terribly appealing.
In the new western Ukrainian nationalist narrative, putting too much focus on the crimes against Jews obscures the thwarted Ukrainian struggle for independence against both Nazi and Soviet forces as the main tragedy of the war.
Politicians who aspire to independence, however, can be thwarted by the binary nature of the Senate.
These constructs represent the deeply rooted Latin American desire for independence that was endlessly thwarted during the years of the cold war.
Kurdish dreams of independence have long been thwarted by the hostility not only of Arab Iraqis but also of Turkey, Iran and Syria - each of which have substantial Kurdish minorities.
He was killed in 1978, three years into the 24-year Indonesian occupation that thwarted the former Portuguese colony's independence until 2002 (after an interregnum under the UN).
