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Although the two attacks thwarted, however, seems to taste the sweetness of a terrorist organization.

The cub, who was just a few months old, even tried to scramble up again but was thwarted by his victorious sibling.

Their original plan was to get it out for Christmas and holiday sales. But they're being thwarted at every turn.

He took the Portland Trailblazers to the NBA Finals twice, only to be thwarted by the Pistons' Bad Boys and Jordan's Bulls.

as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman's life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die.

Tuesday's shareholder vote has thwarted Huang's plans for the board, but allowed him a compensatory victory on the general mandate.

Sadly, all of his attempts have been thwarted by his seemingly insurmountable stack of riches.

The Chinese official who spoke with The Age said the thwarted plane bomber was a member of the East Turkestan Independence Movement.

A dozen plots against New York have been thwarted or have failed since the attacks, including one to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge.

And his sensible bid to loosen up the sclerotic planning regime might be thwarted by nervous local councils.

It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else.

Even before the earthquake, this generation was struggling with a sense of thwarted opportunities in a stagnant economy.

Yahoo! , one of Google's biggest rivals, apparently thwarted in its own ambition to acquire YouTube, reportedly wants the latter.

Not to be outdone, Adam thwarted Nasri with a perfectly timed tackle on the edge of the box.

I really don't want to say much about it in case it gets thwarted, but it increasingly looks like it's going to happen without a hitch.

Despite all this, merger plans may be thwarted by the timidity of local rulers.

A year later, France's new protectionism is looking ragged, as one grand design after another has been thwarted.

This last-minute hitch rather thwarted the earlier regulatory due diligence carried out on behalf of Prudential by lawyers Slaughter & May.

It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France.

SI Group estimated that it has spent more than $1 million in its legal effort but said Chinese authorities have thwarted its efforts.

The Congress was determined to impose the withdrawal that had been thwarted by the executive for half a decade.

The letter follows years of thwarted attempts by the Chinese technology company to crack the U. S. market.

CNOOC has been thwarted in some of its recent attempts to do deals. It failed to secure stakes in large offshore fields in Angola and Ghana.

In his days of illness and of being thwarted and robbed, he had almost forgotten how fearful they once were.

Yet they were thwarted when Colombia declined to join because of its neighbours' equivocal attitude to its FARC guerrillas.

More sheep and a buoyant mutton market have thwarted this approach and accelerated grassland degradation.

Due to the flexibility Star Children have in maneuvering, few find themselves in a situation they would deem a failure, thwarted.

In 2008, federal antitrust lawyers in the U. S. thwarted a Web-search advertising partnership between the companies.

Third, this natural adjustment continues to be thwarted by the build-up of foreign currency reserves, .

Heavily exposed to troubled real-estate investments, the firm tried to raise fresh capital, only to be thwarted.

Japanese intended surprise attack was thwarted by the American communication intelligence.

Whole-value substitution attacks can be thwarted by adding contextual information to the plaintext before encrypting it.

The Demon Invasion has been thwarted, but a new conflict, or rather the rekindling of an ancient one, has resurfaced.

That dream for him, had long been thwarted as he hoped for same within Europe in the days of Napoleon.

The failure followed the company's thwarted attempt to buy out Sunday Communications, its mobile arm, in 2005.

The United States has said Iran was behind a thwarted plot last fall to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States.

Even so, a more balanced recovery in Germany may yet be thwarted by fragile banks and by the inherent thrift of consumers.

It is easy to see how these developments have thwarted recent efforts to shape responsible public policy.

Described as "brooding Midwest tales, " they reveal "their author's sympathetic insight into the thwarted lives of ordinary people. "

Great failures are slow agony, but great passions that are thwarted kill like a bolt of lightning.

Separatists in Taiwan have been "thwarted" , it says, and relations have taken a "significantly positive turn" .

It has long wanted to develop more muscular military capabilities, but has been repeatedly thwarted, especially by Britain.

In Tahrir Square in Cairo, crowds of new protesters thwarted attempts to remove the remaining anti-government demonstrators.

But as the thwarted candidates' backers become more radical, these views on nuclear issues are starting to sound rather quaint.

Their first attempt to wed earlier this month in Buenos Aires was thwarted.

In an admirably minimalist way, Mr. Pitt gives equal weight to the father's tyranny and thwarted dreams.

Coca-Cola Co. 's attempt to acquire China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd. was thwarted by Chinese regulators in 2009.

After Italy's constitutional court had thwarted his efforts to make himself immune from prosecution, Silvio Berlusconi certainly got mad.

Pakistan's economic and social development have also been stunted, as the army has sucked up resources and thwarted growth.

Their frantic efforts to get word of their families are thwarted by downed telephone lines and disrupted cellular phone base stations.

Its thwarted plots have included blowing up ten airliners simultaneously over the Atlantic.

But the plan is in danger of being thwarted by the LDP and its puffing pals.

Democratic memories are haunted by Lyndon Johnson, whose ambition to build a Great Society was thwarted by escalation in Vietnam.

And how can a firm identify and design high-leverage policies, policies that are not thwarted by unanticipated side effects?

We further deny that the corruption of human culture and language through sin has thwarted God's work of inspiration.

The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison.

Security guards thwarted hijacking on an Egypt Air flight from Istanbul to Cairo.

Only those who are OF Your Planet will remain; the others will be banished, their take-over thwarted.

A request "justice" of the demonstration, and finally evolved into violent crime thwarted by arson.

New York City authorities said Sunday they thwarted a plot to blow up post offices and police stations with crude pipe bombs.

Protects information. The system uses high-level encryption to "seal" data so that snoops and thieves are thwarted.

When that need is thwarted, when one feels incapable of navigating one's way toward desired goals, a feeling of powerlessness can set in.

Hundreds of its people have been captured and killed and many of its most dangerous plots thwarted.

He was the tough leader thwarted by weaker colleagues.

EU food and agriculture policies designed to keep out so-called Frankenfoods have continuously thwarted U. S. biotech firms.

Again, the intervention of the Hitlerjugend Division had thwarted the Allied plans.

Surrounding villages are under order not to aid them and any attempts to grow food is thwarted.

One reason was to mark its 30th birthday, in 1997, though that plan was thwarted by a bloody coup staged by Mr Hun Sen.

In that case President Obama's evident desire for America to take a back seat may well be thwarted.

Too little security, and your only defense system will be thwarted and allow full access to everything inside that checkpoint.

Thwarted, GeneralMusharraf began seriously to flirt with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), led by Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister.

Using ten-year old tactics at a battle on Mon Calamari, Daala was easily thwarted by Admiral Ackbar.

However, there is a flaw in the argument that the evolution of wheeled animals was thwarted by the insoluble joint problem.

However, its ambition was thwarted by China's determination to ensure that CICC remained under local control.

75 min: Bale romps down the left before being thwarted by a superb tackle by Jones, who has been outstanding tonight.

But searing hatred for ovulating women will not be thwarted so easily!

Our plan for a football match was thwarted by the heavy rain.

Likewise, dollar weakness is helping sterling make gains, although it continues to be thwarted at the 1. 59 level.

There they all take on modern form (the evil queen's now the evil mayor, Snow White's a teacher, etc. ) and live thwarted lives.

If you try to take the SHARD from the fireplace you are thwarted by a metal grate!

When high expectations are thwarted they are apt to throw the confident individual into the blackest pessimism.

However, state- controlled China Netcom, which owns 20 per cent of PCCW, thwarted the asset sale to foreign groups on nationalistic grounds.

In 2005 Mr Annan tried to reform the UN and was thwarted (see article).

Still, Beijing's intentions have been thwarted before.

It has also thwarted our capacity to come to terms with the complex legal-political institution that is modern judicial review.

I am thwarted in every thing material. I do not consider myself at all a fortunate person.

However, Prospero's plans for revenge are thwarted when his daughter meets the king's son, Ferdinand.

Though my local efforts were thwarted, I still believed that Scouting should abandon the flag.

Tess is a doctoral candidate and has had her whole life thwarted by Ben's passion for finding the Dowry .

Earlier attempts to reach victims were thwarted when the stampedes left helicopters nowhere to land.

Duffy thinks they may have been thwarted by low water levels.

after all, CC#3 may be thwarted in his ambition by sheer competition for places.

BRITAIN'S long-awaited exit from recession has moved from thwarted prediction to firm fact.

It is the reactions of a frustrated man thwarted by fatigue.

The commission thwarted Mr Karzai's first-round election victory last August, by ruling that nearly 1m votes were fraudulent.

The police thwarted the robbers' plans by finding their hide-out and arresting them.

My holiday plans have been thwarted by the strike.

Instead, he was obliged to order a harsh crackdown to crush the thwarted opposition.

He gives more prominence to Europe, where, after the London and Madrid bombings and other thwarted attempts, a new front-line has opened up.

The 450ft rock tower thwarted attempts to climb it until 1966, way after Everest had been conquered.

State television said that eight people had died, including a nephew of last June's thwarted presidential candidate, Mir Hosein Mousavi.

Alas, western powers have often thwarted this aspiration.

To fail them, to ignore them, to be thwarted in the performance of them, this is to "lose face. "

Life is too short to have your dreams thwarted.

The boy's lack of money thwarted his plans for college.

The needed global adjustment will be thwarted if the pegging continues.

But it is not only the very rich who suffer in this way. Professional men very frequently feel hopelessly thwarted.

He was thwarted at every step by political obstacles (William E. H. Lecky).

But ethnic pride and thwarted ambitions are powerful forces.

A herd of wild boars has thwarted a suspected car thief's getaway in northern Germany.

Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar says 62 attempted attacks were thwarted in Kabul in the last six months , but the 63rd succeeded .

Benedict has tried twice to simplify the Curia but been thwarted each time.

Pluto is your ruler, and with this planet doing battle with so many other planets, you may feel thwarted in your attempts to move forward.

They include veterans of the 1988 students' movement and others who came to prominence in the thwarted monk-led protests of September 2007.

The tragedy of China's last great strides to become modern and internationalised were thwarted in the Anti Japanese war.

Last week, police in France said that they had thwarted a plot by a boy, 13, to murder his school teachers.

Divided and thwarted in the 1920's, the various components of progressivism came tentatively together in 1932.

Your natural ability to press forward will be thwarted, which you will find frustrating.

As for the thwarted Mr Marchionne, he is looking for other ways to add scale to the Fiat-Chrysler alliance.

Virulent hostility thwarted him at every turn.

All, according to Bush, gave up usable intelligence that thwarted other acts of terrorism.

The prime minister thwarted the opposition's maneuver to gain control of the government.

Planned attacks in Jordan were thwarted.

The way he phrased the question thwarted my answer.

And when the drive to love is thwarted, the brain turns passion into fury.

Even if Mr Wen is sincere, he may be thwarted.

My plans were thwarted by the weather.

In 2005 Mr. Annan tried to reform the UN and was thwarted (see pages 20-24).

And so this weekend's thwarted United Kingdom car bombings have prompted yet another "Why do they hate us? " moment.

He was thwarted in his plans.

Why is memory thwarted in Hiroshima?

Concern blips up anytime a thwarted plot, such as the 2009 "Christmas Day bomber" incident, becomes public.

Then you can assuage your thwarted ambition with the thought that a decent boss whom you respect is rare.

Or is it because you are thwarted, blocked in various ways, of which you may not be conscious at all?

In America, Congress's fears about the deficit have thwarted the Obama administration's efforts to pass a new mini-stimulus (see article).

Time and again we have seen security methods thwarted and broken.

I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best-laid plans.

This is tantamount to sabotaging the development of emerging economies, a move that can be thwarted only if BRICS cooperate on the issue.

High tariffs imposed by developing countries have thwarted that goal, Schwab said.

Their attempt to recapture Calais was foiled thwarted by a traitor

The thwarted Communist reformer Alexander Dubcek watches as Havel speaks to a crowd in Prague during the velvet revolution in 1989

Borrowers thwarted in their efforts to secure loans in China are coming to Hong Kong.

In France, schools and cars were the primary objects, most likely because they were symbols of a thwarted social and physical mobility;

able children, eager for knowledge, though thwarted by a lack of training in the fundamentals of reading

Father and "me" in the family was run-down later, in real life will be thwarted at every turn, unassisted;

martin cunningham thwarted his speech rudely

All the thwarted longings, all the stern denials

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Quills thwarted swords;

She will console me spiritually when I am thwarted and frustrated;

Be thwarted in one's plan