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General Hagenbeck declined to give specifics but said any eventual move into Pakistan would more likely be planned to thwart movements by the opposing side rather than to stage a frantic chase across national frontiers.

If so, then the Ginsburg and Breyer statement will have no greater effect than the thwarted effort by members of the Occupy movement to claim the Supreme Court's plaza on the decision's second anniversary last month.

He thwarted the movement in support of a reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, in 2009, and when hundreds of thousands of Iranians rose up around the country marching in the streets, some overtly denouncing him, he stepped forward to crush the protests.

Big Oil must thwart the movement to leave fossil fuels in the ground, the world's most powerful oilman said on Tuesday.

Representatives of the Military Council of Damascus, an insurgent group, said that at least 33 members of President Assad's security forces in Damascus had surrendered, while others had fled central Al Abasiyeen Square, and that other government forces had erected roadblocks on all access streets to the area to thwart the movement of rebel fighters.

An obstinate president (see Bush, G.W. - Iraq) can thwart a movement, even though it might have a majority of support in Congress.

But if we look at this country closely, we can explain one of the great paradoxes of the United States - that it has incubated a triumphant civil rights movement at home, yet thwarted civil rights movements abroad.

On that day in 1992, hundreds of students tried to march to the Georgia State Capital but city officials, along with our elders from the civil rights movement thwarted our efforts to get off of campus that day.

This effort was thwarted by the execution movement szlachta party led by Mikołaj Sienicki and Jan Zamoyski; their choice was Stephen Báthory, Prince of Transylvania.

The quenelle is deliberately vague, a kind of repressed Hitler salute, rightly described by one French journalist as reminiscent of the thwarted Nazi arm-movement of Peter Sellers's Dr Strangelove.

Meditation on the movement is thwarted again at the end, when Ms. Michelson's voice, which has gone quiet, returns to opine about faith amid a ridiculous fable about God's other child, Marjorie.

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