In 2015, for example, he was one of seven Republican senators who refused to sign a missive from Sen. Tom Cotton meant to thwart negotiations between Pres.
And, by thwarting negotiations between Taliban leaders and the government in Kabul, the Afghan capital, it has also helped keep peace out of reach.By contrast, Mr Musharraf's successor, Asif Ali Zardari, seems to have found in Mr Karzai a new best friend.
Mr. Yusuf, a former warlord, had been widely criticized for trying to thwart peace negotiations.
The Parliament also hopes to elect a new president within five days, according to local radio reports, to replace Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, a former warlord who was widely accused of trying to thwart peace negotiations and who resigned as president in December.
Spanish Broadcasting System says in a lawsuit that Clear Channel Communications thwarted its merger negotiations with a rival, the Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation.
In the 1973 television series "17 Moments of Spring," he portrayed a historical Soviet spy who teamed with a United States operative to thwart Nazi negotiation attempts.
Brock had planned to continue his campaign into the U.S., but he was thwarted by the negotiation of an armistice by Prevost with American Major General Henry Dearborn.
Several Iranian officials decried the move toward sanctions, saying it was an illegitimate attempt to thwart Iran's negotiations with Brazil and Turkey and predicting that new sanctions would not pass the Security Council.
Some Congressional officials said they were appalled that the will of Congress could be thwarted in the back-room negotiations that drive conference committees.
Rather, the question is why the United States should oppose such a move, particularly given that its own attempts to revive Palestinian-Israeli negotiations have been thwarted time and again by Israel's refusal to stop building settlements.
