Sentence examples for was thwarted from inspiring English sources

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was thwarted

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To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.

  • The police thwarted the would-be assassin.

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He was thwarted by Mike Miller's foul.

He was thwarted by Michel Vorm.

Toward dawn, the attempted coup was thwarted.

Israel said an attempted car bombing in Georgia was thwarted.

Make it "his request … was thwarted" and "perspectives … were echoed".

But he was thwarted by the trial judge.

Horn's attempt to follow Goodall's model was thwarted.

If Ms. Hudson hoped to raise eyebrows, she was thwarted.

The Berlin blockade was thwarted because people came together.

That plot was thwarted by the Singaporean authorities.

"That effort was thwarted when we froze the account.

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