Sentence examples for try to foil from inspiring English sources

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

A century later, the world's narco-traffickers are still better financed and equipped than the officials who try to foil them.

He does just that, and the rest of the movie follows Holmes and Watson as they try to foil his plot.

The change of plan will give Washington more opportunities in coming weeks to judge whether Iraq is continuing to try to foil the inspections.

And the group remains poised to use the Internet to try to foil what it perceives as attempts to despoil wilderness.

"He's not a hero, he's not a folk star, whatever you want to call him," Mr. Proulx said the other day as he pointed out new windows that he had installed to try to foil the burglaries.

Aside from the plot, which sees Smith and buddy Kevin Kline try to foil an assassination attempt on President U.S. Grant in 1869, Wild Wild West has little interest in its historical setting.

"There are people afraid to go out in the fall on their own land," Sergeant Ray noted, explaining that there are brazen interlopers who try to foil property confiscation laws by surreptitiously using tracts of other people's land.

Blankets have been strung over the windows to try to foil enemy snipers, while the platoon's own snipers and Stryker vehicles outside try to monitor Iraqis who live nearby.

As late as Sunday evening, many people in Baghdad were locking their doors and preparing evacuation routes in case Mr. Sadr tried to attack the capital to try to foil American attempts to seize him.

An adaptation of Thomas Harris's suspenseful best seller, it centres on an unstable Vietnam War veteran (Bruce Dern) who is involved in a plot to kill spectators during the Super Bowl; an Israeli officer (Robert Shaw) and an FBI agent (Fritz Weaver) try to foil the attack.

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