thwarting

How To Use thwarting In A Sentence

• The two hostages of the escape attempt received medals of valour and were credited by the local press for thwarting the escape.
• Mr. Silber argues that humint has proven even more valuable than sigint in detecting and thwarting homegrown threats—the fastest-growing category of militant Islamist terror. How the NYPD Foiled the Post-9/11 Terror Plots
• Independent researchers are supposed to provide a counterbalance, thwarting the drug industry's tendency to turn research studies into marketing grist.
• The push of the main group of forces should be directed at exploiting success and thwarting the enemy's attempts to restore its defenses.
• Life as a spy is all glamour - women, alcohol, jetting around the globe for two hours before finally thwarting the enemy in the last ten minutes.
• The Conservatives, who won the votes of barely one in five Canadians in the federal election held October 14, are accusing the opposition parties of attempting a "putsch" and thwarting the will of the electorate. Canada's "putsch": Oppose Conservative power-grab! No support to Liberal-NDP coalition!
• Then he creates a hyperkinetic rubber called flubber and suddenly he's thwarting villains, winning basketball games and saving his rinky-dinky college, as well as his love life. Film Clips
• Twisted her other behind her back, all while avoiding the wriggling kicks and thwarting the clever maneuvers designed to slither out of even the tightest holds. Earl of Durkness
• That case hinged on an interpretation of the Hobbs act, a 1946 law aimed at thwarting gangsters from extorting interstate truckers.
• Larger than life, he accompanied each step of my journey with moods to match - allegro, penseroso, adagio, furioso: his exuberance alternated with expressions of harshness and nervous fury at life's intransigent thwarting of his will.