Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meanwhile, failed in all three attempts to thwart the powerful visitors. McGill's A side pounded Harvard, 17-0, while the B and C sides ran up 4-3 and 18-0 victories...
...defending its citizens." Over the previous six weeks, he charged, these "demented phantoms" had been responsible for 1,806 bomb warnings and 42 explosions. But, he warned, they would not prevail. The 60-day state of siege that he had imposed a week earlier, the President declared, would thwart their efforts. Some 30 minutes later, Alfonsin received a pointed response: bomb No. 43 exploded on a street in Palermo...
AFTER DUTIFULLY SHARING with us the triumphs and glory of the hitherto unnoticed South African reformer (i.e. the corporation), Mobil's story adopts a darker tone. It seems that the forces of darkness--whose goals are "unproductive and unfairly punitive"--may thwart our hero's crusade...
...would cost peanuts in the scheme of things, it would be among the first that a conservative President who opposes extension of the Voting Rights Act (such as Reagan) would veto. Thus, the President can legally take a tool ostensibly designed to reduce spending and use it instead to thwart the will of Congress and to kill programs to which he is ideologically opposed. Is this what we mean when we speak of representing the "national interest"? The merits of extending the Voting Rights Act are not at issue here, for the same type of thing can happen with...
...security does seem to have deterred many of the lone gunmen who so often diverted flights to Cuba in the 1970s; the number of hijackings around the world has steadily decreased, from 91 in 1969 to 17 last year. Still, the precautions have not yet been able to thwart highly organized, professional terrorists like those who found a way to get guns aboard TWA Flight...