Sentence examples for thwarting for from inspiring English sources

It exercised its pre-emptive right to buy a 26% stake in France's second-largest telecoms company from BT for euro4 billion ($4 billion), thwarting (for now) Vodafone's designs on the company.

Before going, though, they customized the soles of their shoes with outline images of people protesting or being arrested, or with texts saying things like "we accuse the U.S. Navy of thwarting, for more than a half-century, the healthy development of our economy".

Many modern Arabs regard Lawrence as well-intentioned but thwarted, and perhaps even complicit in his own thwarting, for while he was the representative of an empire that had promised them independence, all they actually got was a stunted, truncated and imperially supervised condominium with a Jewish homeland – Israel in embryo – sticking out of its belly.

Many modern Arabs regard Lawrence as well-intentioned but thwarted, and perhaps even complicit in his own thwarting, for while he was the representative of an empire that had promised them independence, all they actually got was a stunted, truncated and imperially supervised condominium with a Jewish homeland – Israel in embryo – sticking out of its belly.

The efforts of Capello's team to reach tranquillity were thwarted for a spell.

And the trainer Bob Baffert, thwarted for the third time, cries behind his dark shades.

As a result, his advancement within the Army was thwarted for several years.

The officials were deliberately vague about how many attacks had been thwarted, for fear of alarming an already jumpy populace here.

The Nets wanted to escape to Brooklyn, but their owner, Bruce C. Ratner, has been thwarted for a few years because of the economy and land-use niceties there.

So why are the police being excluded?" The legislation had been thwarted for years in the Assembly under Speaker Jack Collins, a South Jersey Republican who retired this year.

I'm sure Dourif himself would see his career as anything but thwarted for all that he never did get that Oscar, and we should follow his example.