Word: thwart
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...often happens in a televised age, the image Gorbachev projected was divorced from the reality of what he actually said: that the Berlin Wall was built by East Germany to protect itself from outside interference; that Moscow restricts emigration in order to thwart Western attempts to create a brain drain; that Soviet troops are in Afghanistan because of repeated requests from that country for protection from foreign subversion; that the U.S.S.R. is pursuing its own Star Wars research...
...public protests, the Soviet Union still finds ways of chilling the passions of its national minorities. The latest target is Latvia, the Soviet Baltic republic forcibly incorporated into the U.S.S.R. in 1940. As Latvian activists prepared for last week's commemoration of their lost independence, Soviet authorities sought to thwart them by trotting out an enigmatic figure from the spy wars of the 1950s: Harold ("Kim") Philby, 75, an Englishman who was the most successful Soviet mole in the British Secret Service...
...require renovation. Witness the perennial stalemates between Congress and the President. The weakening of party allegiance among voters has meant that only three postwar Presidents have enjoyed four years in which their own party has controlled both houses of Congress. When the White House and Capitol Hill thwart each other on Central America or engage in mutual finger pointing on the national debt, the separation of powers that was the chief innovation of the framers can seem a mixed blessing...
...misdeeds in some ways are more far-reaching in their implications, placing U.S. foreign policy in the hands of private citizens and arms merchants whose yearning for profits may have exceeded their patriotism. Seemingly accountable to no one, these operatives used their secrecy, in Foley's view, "not to thwart our adversaries but to thwart the legitimate institutions of our Government. It was a covert action by the U.S. against the U.S." Fawn Hall's insistence that "it was a policy of mine not to ask questions" echoed the attitudes of other witnesses. Even Cabinet officials showed little curiosity about...
...Administration is stipulating that it did indeed support the contra cause but that this was well within the bounds of the shifting congressional restrictions that existed between 1983 and 1986. Thus the very real moral and political questions about a secret policy that was clearly designed to thwart the Boland amendment has temporarily given way to a trickier legal dispute: Exactly what did that amendment and other laws forbid, and to whom did they apply...