Sentence examples for was thwarting from inspiring English sources

It was thwarting to hear only part of it.

I used to think Kissinger was thwarting me.

They said he was thwarting "black awakening" and the development of "black consciousness".

He said swelling was thwarting efforts to reveal the full extent of his injury.

MY moment was now and the woman I loved -- my woman with childbearing hips -- was thwarting my destiny.

By then, David had retired from the conversation and was thwarting his sister's attempts to inflate a balloon, by smacking it with a mailing tube.

Mr. Cuomo said that his office's tougher oversight of legislative member items — discretionary spending often given to politically-favored groups — was thwarting wasteful spending.

They claimed that Leachman was thwarting efforts by several sheikhs in the Middle Euphrates, including Sheikh Dhari, to gain independence from British rule.

But he still insisted that, although the government was ardent in its desire to negotiate on settlements and borders and all the other political issues, Palestinian terrorism was thwarting any prospect of progress.

Mr. Bagis said at a meeting in Yalta that prejudice in Europe was thwarting Turkey's E.U. application much as it had undermined its bid to host the 2020 Olympics, according to a report Saturday in London's Telegraph newspaper.

Time Warner, which, like TCI, then owned about twenty per cent of Turner Broadcasting, had the right to veto all acquisitions, and it was thwarting the takeover of CBS.