"thwarted interest" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where someone's desire or goal has been obstructed or prevented. For example: - Despite his best efforts, his thwarted interest in becoming a doctor led him down a different career path. - The company's profits were in decline due to the thwarted interests of its competitors. - She felt frustrated and disappointed by the thwarted interest in her latest project, which she had worked tirelessly on.
Burnley are expected to thwart interest in youth prospect Cameron Howieson, the New Zealander who is thought to have been watched by Liverpool and Newcastle, by offering the 17-year-old a professional contract.
Joel Buchsbaum, who turned a thwarted childhood interest in sports into a career as a nationally recognized analyst of professional football, died on Sunday at his home in Brooklyn.
But it was despotic kings and functionless aristocrats more functionless in France than in Britain who thwarted the interests and ambitions of the middle class, which turned, therefore, to the principle of majoritarianism.
A soft-power campaign that included documentary films on Russian television and denunciations by Russian officials of human rights violations preceded the uprising in April 2010 that overthrew Kurmanbek S. Bakiyev, a corrupt autocrat who had sometimes thwarted Russian interests, particularly regarding the American base, which the Russians wanted shut down.
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"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.
Patricia Miranda had ignored the sexual innuendo from the boys she wrestled against, withstood her father's relentless attempts to thwart her interest in the sport, absorbed the cheap shots from opponents, the rolled eyes of opposing coaches, and even a scolding from one opponent's mother, who complained that her son was in a no-win situation wrestling against a girl.
As psychologist Robert Sternberg puts it: "wisdom and egocentricity are incompatible... people who have gotten where they are by not taking other people's interests into account or even by actively thwarting the interests of others... would not be viewed as wise".
For a while, he said, laziness thwarted any vague interest in naturalizing.
