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Sentence Examples His intention to become ordained was thwarted when he was exposed as an agnostic and his religious scepticism caused suspicion in the university. They successfully conquered East Anglia, but were thwarted by the first range of hills. When he reached the penalty area he drove the ball low to the home keeper's left only to be thwarted by an excellent save. Competition thwarted this cartel when members reneged on the deal, exceeding their quotas. A gang which tried to mug a Selby woman in broad daylight was thwarted when her dog leapt to her defence. Though Sullivan, timing his run from the wing to perfection, appeared to have chipped the ball over Shelley, a superb late tackle thwarted him. After another thwarted attempt at discourse, she finally snaps that he can't keep playing games with her. So people's goal attainment is being thwarted and they lash our verbally or physically. He believes the Government has done a lot of work behind the scenes in the past four years to make sure future fuel protests were thwarted. He ran on to the rebound, but again he was thwarted as the keeper back-pedalled furiously to complete his solo stand. A gentleman, however, had the presence of mind to stand beside the till, and though all was confusion, the schemers were thwarted. In 1836-1837, her career as a schoolmistress thwarted by ill health, she suffered a nervous breakdown. Once again I was thwarted in my attempt to understand how to tune in to the audio on the bank of TVs mounted above the treadmills. We thought that the latest attack might be thwarted by the machines' own faulty mathematics. A criticism levelled at Inveraray is that the attacking thrust is often thwarted by over-elaboration among the forwards. York played on the break and came closest to breaking the deadlock when Carter was thwarted by an excellent save. My previous scheme was to auction off a date with me to this event on EBay, but now I am thwarted. Although stardom beckoned at an early age, Michael was initially thwarted in his desire to act. This has frustrated the restaurant entrepreneur somewhat and thwarted him from rolling out more establishments. And they succeeded as Garner's final save thwarted Lee Canoville in the closing seconds. Show More Sentences But he was thwarted when he tried to do the same at last year's London Marathon. And, when I'm thwarted, I'm likely to go all sour and spiky and be a pig to live with. His mother thwarted him, calling into a local bank in June to tell the manager that her son's stories were lies. Distraction thieves were thwarted by a number of elderly people they targeted in Pewsey late on Wednesday evening last week. Also his best laid plans were thwarted when he attempted to return to see his family in South Africa. The ship's company fought hard to recover the damaged compartments, but were thwarted by a fierce fire which raged below decks. The frustration of her dreams being continually thwarted throws her further into the depths of despair. But the attempt was thwarted when the Russians landed in the town and found it full of aging, hairy, flabby Italian men playing bocce. The pair of stories on obsessive and thwarted travel were inherently undramatic and for that reason we wanted to put them on stage. And sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne are portrayed as sad victims of thwarted passion and unrequited love. Mary was one of those broken people, a life thwarted from what it could be. What kind of sparks fly when Olivia realizes her dreams of a lazy weekend are thwarted? An attempted robbery by a female cat burglar was thwarted when she was trapped by a resident, the Central Local Court heard recently. A pensioner has struck on a novel way to find female companionship but his attempts to track down Miss Right keep being thwarted at every turn. However her dreams, not unlike those of Utzon's, are thwarted by protracted delays hindering the building's creation. An examination of the dynamics operating might reveal parents who have thwarted normal growth through pampering and over-indulgence. It's full of life lessons, and sweetness, and the love thwarted which is your sitcom staple. We of course wanted clear skies or our efforts would be thwarted but the morning had been very overcast and we were not hopeful. Her mixture burned the pestilential corpses that threatened the defenders and her illuminations at night thwarted Vandal attacks. After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union's strategic goals were too comprehensive and inflexible to be thwarted by a single defeat. Show More Sentences For a short while, the police continued to insist that they had thwarted an armed insurrection. Indian artillery barrages that year interdicted Pakistani troop movements and thwarted the original invasion plans. My single attempt was thwarted by an indolent server and my second never emerged past the exigencies of an overloaded in tray and inbox. He was thwarted because the searching police officers had bolted the door from the inside. But his escape to the sun has been thwarted because he has again flunked his driving test. Although she is freeborn, Alice forfeits her freedom by assisting her enslaved lover's thwarted escape. A slicker actor would have cued revulsion in children, but here the icky inevitability of movie clinches had been thwarted. Imagine my frustration when my strong urge to be one with the boys was thwarted by my furriness! The certainty that each and every plan will be thwarted deflates any suspense the film may try to generate. Far from being the noncoopted exemplars of native essence, the Gaels are merely thwarted would-be collaborators in Anglicization. Money supply would have then expanded, and deflationary forces would have been thwarted. In concert with contemporary theory, she posits a world of belated, thwarted deixis, of quasi-chimerical example. There is no flexibility, meaning, as it turns out, that the potential for the sisters to perform a double act is thwarted. But there was more than thwarted ambition and ministerial rivalry at play here. Unless he acts, allies insist, he will be painted as an impotent puppet, thwarted by London Labour, and vulnerable to the opposition leader's bombast. Smaller upstarts, however, are thwarted by the heavy cost of regulation before they even get a chance to enter the market. On Friday morning, the guards thwarted an escape attempt by 2 inmates. The enemy had been left virtually blind in the area of the English Channel and were unable to mount a naval challenge that could have thwarted the invasion. Their individual and collective endeavors were thwarted by the machinations of powerful men, institutions, and a tradition-bound, preliterate society. He had a golden opportunity to notch another hat-trick here, but wasn't as sharp as usual and was thwarted by a mixture of poor finishing and fine goalkeeping. Show More Sentences His progress was briefly thwarted by the locked gate, but he managed to vault the boundary wall without breaking a sweat and disappeared down the road at superhuman speed. I was determined for this to happen, but his mother thwarted my efforts and had him burnt to cinders in the US instead. A concerted communist attempt to oust Ross from the railways union was thwarted as a result of lobbying and branch stacking orchestrated by Ferguson. Finally, after a couple of thwarted attempts, a chipper male voice announced that you had arrived. And so it was Sunday night that Cristiano Ronaldo, brusquely thwarted for much of the game, put the upstarts in their place. She was the virgin poetess dressed in white, the tremulous daughter who never left her father's house, the maiden who turned to art because she was thwarted in love. On the north-east coast, Royal Findhorn Yacht Club's race officials were thwarted by unfavourable tides and dying wind for day one of their dinghy regatta. It is still a tale of thwarted hopes and suppressed unhappiness, but the misery she reveals is calamitous only in its traumatic effects on one family. The Labour backbenches are now stuffed with the disappointed, the thwarted, the fired, the has-beens and those that were never likely to amount to anything in the first place. Jude, who had been planning to enter the priesthood as a licentiate, as a substitute for his thwarted intellectual ambitions, is now doubly defeated. Even the fact that the heroine is an ex-actor and the Washington bigwig she befriends a thwarted thesp gives the whole affair a cosy patina of showbusiness. Armed guards aboard the 510 ft ship immediately returned fire and the attack was thwarted, said a spokesman for the European Union's anti-piracy naval fleet. Starring Damian Lewis and Gina McKee, it's a sumptuous and lush period drama about thwarted desire and the chains of matrimony. Two Kendal's players were yellow-carded, reducing their number to nine, but they continued to have good chances but were thwarted by the packed home defence. I wanted to purchase a crisp, dry Lambrusco, but I've been thwarted. A thick blanket of snow thwarted the efforts of search and rescue teams hunting for the missing girl yesterday, prolonging the agony for her family. However, because the succeeding anticyclone progresses eastward quickly, the full force of the cold air mass will be thwarted in its northward push. My rooster had been trying to learn how to crow, with the occasional thwarted cluck, but finally a full cock-a-doodle-doo rang out across the yard. Past attempts to loosen the grip of taxi cartels have been thwarted by the industry. In yet another egregious political machination, however, Fujimori supporters in congress unconstitutionally thwarted this popular initiative on a dubious technicality. Show More Sentences The free trade agreement was thwarted by the United States, which saw Commonwealth preference to the UK as an economic threat. His quick actions saved the on-time departure of the ISR mission and thwarted a high altitude cockpit depressurization, ensuring pilot safety. The popular will has been thwarted at least three times by the clanky, undemocratic machinery of the Electoral College. While he did reduce government expenditures, opponents in the parliaments successfully thwarted his attempts at enacting much needed reforms. This proposal was thwarted by arguments over property rights, as property owners were surreptitiously shifting their boundaries. Bentham became convinced that his plans for the Panopticon had been thwarted by the King and an aristocratic elite acting in their own interests. His intended landing in the Firth of Forth was thwarted by the Royal Navy, under Admiral Byng. However, Queen Anne appeared to have taken a dislike to Swift and thwarted these efforts. Although Andrew Moray was thwarted by the walls of Urquhart Castle, he continued to prosecute a vigorous campaign against his enemies in Moray. His ambition was further thwarted by John Comyn, who had been much more resolute in his opposition to the English. Bureaucracy and the French Revolution thwarted further progress by de Jouffroy. Attempts by Sri Lankan noblemen to undermine British power in 1818 during the Uva Rebellion were thwarted by Governor Robert Brownrigg. This directly led to the Brunei Revolt, which thwarted Azahari's attempt and forced him to escape to Indonesia. In 1574, Manila was temporarily besieged by the Chinese pirate Lim Hong, who was ultimately thwarted by the local inhabitants. A third attempt to introduce the bill as an amendment to a money bill in November 1704 was also thwarted. American defeats at the Siege of Detroit and the Battle of Queenston Heights thwarted attempts to seize Upper Canada, improving British morale. An attempt to schedule the sites as ancient monuments in the 1980s was thwarted by the lack of reliable mapping. High avalanche conditions have thwarted two previous attempts by Viesturs to reach the peak of Annapurna. Marie and Emil, the tragically thwarted lovers, are penalized with death. Intimate partner violence includes sexual violence and psychological abuse and is mainly a feature of sexual relationships or thwarted ones. Show More Sentences Clad in a burqa and his feet dyed with henna, the man attempted to escape but prison guards thwarted his bid, the Samangan prison director, Brig. My dormantly resting multitasking skills had never been so sensely bombarded, as absolute chaos kissed the lips of mayhem that thwarted our every turn. He thwarted Hungarian and Serbian threats during the 1120s, and in 1130 he allied himself with the German emperor Lothair III against the Norman king Roger II of Sicily. Landing parties along the narrow shore were thwarted at first by a spirited defense led by the English and Danish mercenaries who made up Constantinople's Varangian Guard. Several Emperors attempted to reverse this steady dissemination of their authority, but were thwarted both by the papacy and by the princes of the Empire. The plan was thwarted by colonial legislatures and King George II, but it was an early indication that the British colonies of North America were headed towards unification. After a thwarted attempt to take Dresden, Daun's troops were forced to withdraw to Austrian territory for the winter, so that Saxony remained under Prussian occupation. The power of parliament to pass bills was often thwarted by monarchs. In fact, he had no money to research, let alone copy, such a work and attempts to secure financing from his family were thwarted by the civil war in England. The planned invasion was thwarted when an Allied task force, centred on two American fleet carriers, fought Japanese naval forces to a draw in the Battle of the Coral Sea. A facile and persuasive writer, he also turned out countless newspaper articles on Russian aims in Central Asia and how best these could be thwarted. They tried to bust the prisoner out, but were thwarted by the police. Unite Here said it has been trying to unionize the hotel's 500 employees, most of them immigrants, but that an atmosphere of intimidation has thwarted their efforts. Joiner's terminology, an individual must simultaneously experience thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness, which together generate suicidal ideation. Dangerman Brown was twice thwarted by the Town keeper before he wrapped up the win, shooting on the turn to send a powerful right foot effort into the bottom corner. A MERSEYSIDE grandad today told of his excitement at meeting the Queen after his last two trips to Buckingham Palace were thwarted by a streaker and a flood. After Alexander died in 1263, Andrey aspired to add Vladimir to his possessions, but was thwarted in his designs by his younger brother Yaroslav of Tver. It is believed that both attempts were thwarted by bad weather or a flaw in the design of ships that were based on river boats without keels, and his fleets were destroyed. While the activity was there, the heavier thundershowers were thwarted by this drier layer which absorbed some of the upthrusting moist air currents. Nestorians, Franciscans, Jesuits, missionaries of all kinds brought the message in their turn, each seemingly thwarted, their efforts frustrated, their work destroyed. Show More Sentences Just before time Redruth were awarded a penalty try when another fast break up the right flank was only thwarted by a deliberate knock-on of a certain scoring pass. However, the intrigues of his interpreter, Felipillo, who had previously helped Pizarro in dealing with Atahualpa, almost thwarted De Almagro's efforts. Schlich refutes the common belief that organ transplant was the dream of ancient medical practitioners that was only thwarted by a lack of technology. Into this well it may have been thrown by his men, who adopting the use of his new tools with reluctance, and reportedly thwarted him in many ways. In an email to the Examiner the woman told how the council tried to cut the footlong grass last week, but were thwarted because of all the rubbish caught up in it. In Boise, 14-year-old Ilah Hickman lobbied since he was 9 on behalf of the Idaho Giant Salamander, only to be thwarted by lawmakers worried about protecting another species. Examples from Classical Literature He is a gracious nobleman, and kind of heart, save when he is thwarted or angered. To be thwarted and outgeneralled is what this black-browed man can illy bear. He sounded the clacker till his arm ached, and at length his heart grew sympathetic with the birds' thwarted desires. A lifetime of narrow, unstimulating years and thwarted instincts had made age treat her ill. The Soviet effort to capture Berlin by blockade was thwarted by the courageous Allied airlift. Sulkiness at being thus thwarted replaced her earlier attempt at amenability. Yet something new, inexplicable, thwarted her and changed the simplicity of her passion. As if the spell had been thwarted, I followed the melodious adagio of her footsteps. The soporific, thwarted in its effect for a moment, redoubled its power over him. Having twice been thwarted by vampire hunter Blade, the bloodsucker leaders decide to resurrect Dracula. His thwarted desires of yesterday were the despots of his wits. Birmingham midfielder Chris Burke shot over shortly after the interval, Randolph having thwarted Lua Lua moments earlier. Turcoman was a brother to Turquoise, and Arab, who thwarted Day by a head on the owner's favourite Monody, was a daughter of Zeal. The raiders tried to escape through the front door but were thwarted by a mortise lock. These able men found their plans thwarted by the indifference of the public, and often by open hostility. A KNIFEMAN who attacked six people during a 90-minute rampage was thwarted by a brave grandfather armed only with a spirit level. At Surat, however, the British were thwarted by the Portuguese. They became the abhorrence of traitors whose crimes they thwarted. But even from this vantage ground he found his purpose thwarted. Four days after police said they had thwarted the alleged plot, airlines warned that cancellations and disruptions showed no sign of easing. Show More Sentences Now after I had thwarted him in this matter of the sending of an impi to pluck the Lily from the gardens of the Halakazi, Dingaan learned to hate me. Find more words! 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