Sentence examples for tried to foil from inspiring English sources

Gap says factory managers have tried to foil inspections with falsified payment records.

The agent, who was picking up his father's cancer medication, tried to foil a cash-and-pill robbery attempt by James McGoey.

If London nevertheless tried to foil attempts to fix the euro, it would antagonise the other EU countries and damage its own interests.

For years, animal lovers like Karen Cotton, a neighbor of the mayor's, have tried to foil her every effort at "thinning" the deer population.

Most of all, though, it was a protest against the way in which the previous Friday, Brotherhood activists had tried to foil a secularist demonstration against President Mohamed Morsi's policies.

Two men wanted in the shooting of an off-duty officer who tried to foil their robbery attempt in the Bronx have been arrested and charged with attempted murder, the authorities said Friday.

The book abounds in vivid scenes as they try to foil the Party apparatchiks.

To try to foil potential surface-to-air missiles pilots make corkscrew ascents and descents.

D.H.L. Worldwide and D.H.L. Airways have been busily collaborating, too, trying to foil the attack.

Later on, when Elena and Nico plan a sexual rendezvous, Dani tries to foil it by telling Elena that Nico is gay.

Throughout the mushrooming scandal, Rome officials have denied trying to foil secular law by allowing child-abuse allegations to be shrouded in halfhearted diocesan inquiries and cover-ups.