Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neither special interest groups' demands nor unwarranted concerns about Mexico should thwart NAFTA's ratification...
McElroy said the council's failure to approve the concentration in one meeting will not thwart his timetable for the proposal. He hopes the full Faculty will approve the concentration by the end of the semester...
...United States, would be deployed to protect U.N. convoys and help get detainees on both sides out of the war zones. For its part, Washington praised Croatia for interdicting an Iranian plane carrying weapons intended for Bosnian Muslim forces, and also urged a ban on military flights, to thwart Serbian bombing runs in Bosnia...
...years Brazilian authorities viewed ecological concerns with suspicion and scorn, as if they were part of an international plot to thwart the country's development. All that was supposed to change with the March 1990 inauguration of Fernando Collor de Mello, Brazil's first President with a green heart. Collor named Jose Lutzenberger, one of the world's foremost champions of rain-forest preservation, head of a new environment secretariat. The President also vowed to reverse decades of untrammeled development that destroyed 415,000 sq km (160,000 sq. mi.) -- an area the size of Iraq -- of the Amazon rain...
...MONTHS AGO, A HIGHLY CLASSIFIED PENTAGON document known as the Defense Planning Guidance found its way into the New York Times. A front-page headline proclaimed that the Bush Administration had a secret plan to "thwart challenges to the primacy of America" in a "one-superpower world." The nation's top brass appeared to have endorsed "global unilateralism," the doctrine promoted by conservatives who believe that the U.S. essentially must go it alone in enforcing world peace. The Times called the suddenly famous ! Pentagon paper "the clearest rejection to date of collective internationalism" -- a competing view, favored by liberals, that...