Sentence examples for thwarting plans from inspiring English sources

PAGE A11 Philippine Hostage Crisis Several complications are thwarting plans to use military force to free an American missionary couple in the Philippines.

But it reminds the reader of two things about cities. First, people have a habit of thwarting plans; one architect's urban park is another man's caravan site, or mattress dump.

After the fall of the wall, East Germans, and some trendy Wessies, or westerners, successfully fought to preserve the Ampelman's stubby figure on East Berlin's pedestrian crossing signals, thwarting plans to install a European Union-standard design citywide.

This cooperation goes beyond previous efforts to catch or prosecute terrorists who committed crimes; the new emphasis is on uncovering and thwarting plans for attacks that have yet to take place.

In that move, Russia was seen as having five main goals: stopping regime change abetted from outside the country; thwarting plans by Washington to isolate Moscow; proving that Russia was a more solid ally than the United States; showcasing new Russian weapons; and presenting a new foreign policy spectacle to a Russian public weary of the war in neighboring Ukraine.

Relations with the United States soured way back in 2003, when Turkey's opposition to war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq led it to deny overflight and basing permissions to the U.S.-led U.S.-ledn, thwarting plans for a "northern front" against Baghdad.

It was a chronicle of thwarted plans.

Singlehandedly the marines say, he saved remnants of his unit in Vietnam and thwarted plans of.

ASIO and police, he claimed, have thwarted plans for "a number of mass-casualty attacks on our soil".

It thwarted plans to put up a building next to the high school (and thus hide the wall).

Several retail-level environmental groups have persistently thwarted plans here to treat forests by cutting down trees.