Tiananmen Square thwarted the project.
But financing problems thwarted the project, and the city and the developer, Wings Point Associates, began a court battle over the city's attempt to repossess the pier.
Added to his own first-hand experience of the maneuvers of aristocratic landowners determined to prevent the erection of a panopticon in the vicinity of their London estates, there was also a suggestion that the King himself, outraged by Bentham's "Anti-Machiavel" letters and disturbed by rumours of his Jacobinism, may have directly intervened to thwart the project (1838 43, XI, 96 105).
Not to mention the logistics nightmare and the fact geopolitical realities may thwart the project.
Worse yet, illegal downloads of the program became widespread long before the company started turning a profit, threatening to thwart the project in its infancy.
When one tried to convince me the intersection would actually be safer without a signal, I realized their thinking was irrational and they were just throwing up red herrings in an attempt to thwart the project altogether.
While long celebrated by foreign, particularly British, filmmakers, the exploits of Mr. Ronneberg and nine other Norwegians involved in thwarting the Nazi nuclear project became widely known in Norway only this year, when NRK, the state broadcaster, ran "The Heavy Water War," a six-episode mini-series that became a national sensation.
Russia's state-run media have accused the EU of thwarting the South Stream project for political reasons, commenting on President Vladimir Putin's announcement that the gas pipeline to Europe will not be built.
Ultimately, the advent of the recession and persistent doubts about the long-term viability of the digital audio broadcasting (DAB) digital platform thwarted the ambitious project.
The report outlined the current political and policy landscape in San Francisco that may be thwarting the development of said projects.
