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The attempted coup in Sierra Leone has been thwarted by government forces.
To the high mountain peaks of faith and sanctity he would have climbed, had not the tendency been thwarted by the burden, whatever it might be, of crime or anguish, beneath which it was his doom to totter.
Outstanding performances from Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, and Joaquin Phoenix are thwarted by a so-so story line.
Students trying to storm the embassy were thwarted by Iranian troops.
Students trying to storm the embassy were thwarted by Iranian troops.
Both sides will now replay their old game: The United States will seek international support for sanctions and perhaps a military strike, probably to be thwarted by a last-minute Iraqi retraction.
As she told National Public Radio, her desire to study medicine was thwarted by officials who wanted her to remain available for media interviews that stemmed from the photograph's worldwide fame, she herself had become a propaganda exhibit.
Would a Norplant program be thwarted by the fact that many poor teen-agers actually want to get pregnant and have a child?
Turkey's desire to join the European club has hitherto been thwarted by its historic enemy Greece (already a member) and by European concerns about its human rights record.
However, in fiddling with my keyboard I discovered that the italic form of ć (in Times New Roman at least) is almost indistinguishable from ś except with a magnifying glass-thus, ś, ć -so I can only assume you have been thwarted by a quirk of the computer! In the paragraph at the foot of this column, one might have expected to see dićresis in place of diaeresis, but at least the unligated form does not lead in italics to a misleading spelling, in appearance at least.
Others ascended to attempt to reach the roof but were thwarted by locked doors.
Whatever the plan was, we must assume that it was thwarted by the interposition of the British fleet; and from this point of view the battle takes on the aspect of a British victory.
Looking back down the vista of history, he must see a succession of fleets delayed by contrary winds, of sea-sick kings and storm-battered convoys, of conquest thwarted by the caprice of ocean, of peace messengers and high administrators brought to anchor in the midst of their proud schemes.
Watched and thwarted by the Queen, disclaimed by the minister, she owed to the dignity of her own behaviour, and to the contradiction of their enemies, the chief respect that was paid to her, and which but ill compensated for the slavery of her attendance, and the mortifications she endured.
I am very much surprized, Mr. Drummond-Sir-that I can't be left alone in the discharge of my magisterial duties, but must be continually thwarted by you.
I have seen a celebrated talker of our own time turn pale and go out of the room when a showy-looking girl has come into it who for a moment divided the attention of his hearers.--Infinite are the mortifications of the bare attempt to emerge from obscurity; numberless the failures; and greater and more galling still the vicissitudes and tormenting accompaniments of success-- Whose top to climb Is certain falling, or so slippery, that The fear's as bad as falling. 'Would to God,' exclaimed Oliver Cromwell, when he was at any time thwarted by the Parliament, 'that I had remained by my woodside to tend a flock of sheep, rather than have been thrust on such a government as this!' When Buonaparte got into his carriage to proceed on his Russian expedition, carelessly twirling his glove, and singing the air, 'Malbrook to the war is going,' he did not think of the tumble he has got since, the shock of which no one could have stood but himself.
The Christians had set about making another tower; but in this proceeding they were thwarted by the enchanter Ismeno, who cast his spells to better purpose this time than he had done in the affair of the stolen image.
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