Tom tried to thwart her plans.

Tom tried to thwart their plans.

I won't let Tom thwart my plans.

Indonesians have the tools to thwart radicals' efforts to usurp Islam.

The technical language of resource management can also thwart authentic cooperation.

Hamas, the Palestinian Authority s rival in Gaza, will undoubtedly try to thwart Abbas s effort.

So far, surprisingly, the US has not forged a strategy to thwart China s rise.

Lopez Obrador and his supporters can be expected to work relentlessly to thwart his plans.

This was probably done to amplify his isolation and thwart legal efforts for his release.

Not surprisingly, the existing hegemons, led by the US, are doing whatever they can to thwart such efforts.

On the contrary, the US is continuing to thwart European efforts gradually to establish a rule based international order.

If the government can influence 16 of the 30 functional votes, it can thwart proposals from the directly elected legislators.

DDoS attacks, another means by which the authorities have aimed to thwart an open online debate, are harder to deny.

But, by adopting such a stance, they thwart their own envoy and may well stimulate the violence they profess to abhor.

Cameron s bid to thwart Juncker s candidacy mirrored his unsuccessful attempt to prevent the adoption of the EU s fiscal compact in 2012.

This structure harks back to the conditions of NATO s birth, when it was forged to thwart the Soviet threat to Western civilization.

Obasanjo is anxious to thwart the region s growing armed insurgency, which is driven by widespread poverty and oil industry related ecological damage.

How best to respond if some states cannot or will not take the necessary steps to thwart terrorist planning on their territory?

And both have worked to thwart efforts by India, Brazil, and South Africa to become permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

He even singles out the need to thwart pro Kremlin television journalists Evgeny Kiselev and Vladimir Solovev, who have compared him to fascists before.

Moreover, continued internal disunity continues to thwart reconstruction efforts in Gaza, which are urgently needed in the aftermath of Israel s military offensive earlier this year.

But whatever their purpose, by raising fanciful hopes they thwart the possibility for real reform something, incidentally, that the West ceaselessly demands from the Kremlin.

But whatever their purpose, by raising fanciful hopes they thwart the possibility for real reform something, incidentally, that the West ceaselessly demands from the Kremlin.

APEC members, too, should use the existing umbrella of Pax Americana to accelerate economic, security, and political integration before new rivalries emerge to thwart their efforts.

Macedonian activists suspect local authorities used emails in order to impersonate an environmental activism group in an attempt to thwart efforts to stop a government development projects.

The lead up to general elections in Armenia was marred by apparent attempts to thwart the online activities of journalists and at least one incident of fake news.

The process of protracted strikes could thwart positive political changes among the younger generation, thus reducing the chances of a more democratic and benign Iran emerging in the future.

Today, the world s greatest power is the US, and the greatest emerging power is China. So far, surprisingly, the US has not forged a strategy to thwart China s rise.

Indeed, partition may be the only way to prevent Afghanistan from sliding into large scale civil war and to thwart transnational terrorists from reestablishing a base of operations in the rubble.

But coalition rule can also often mean governance of the lowest common denominator, as resistance by any of the government s significant members to a policy can delay or even thwart it.

Can we prevent a calamitous increase in global warming in a way that is fair, that takes account of past and present responsibility, and that does not thwart legitimate hopes for a better life everywhere?

Those using terror, whether in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen and the list could go on and on, do so to de stabilise nations and to thwart the will of the people to live in peace.

As a result, painful policy dilemmas arise, and they can divide even the closest allies. How best to respond if some states cannot or will not take the necessary steps to thwart terrorist planning on their territory?

The political future of China, and arguably the survival of the Chinese Communist Party, rests on whether the Chinese government chooses to wisely continue to scatter and cultivate the seeds of democracy or foolishly attempt to thwart their inexorable growth.

The EU must not, however, let US or Israeli lack of support thwart its efforts to devise a goal map that would be acceptable to all regional parties, or to push Syria onto a more constructive course by engaging it.

Yet tragically, in a misguided attempt to thwart the spread of HIV and AIDS, lawmakers in many parts of the world have passed criminal statues that promote ignorance about the disease, punish its victims, and enhance the chances that the virus will infect new victims.

One example of this is the Buhari administration's bid to save the Naira, Nigeria s national currency, from devaluation by chopping down trees lining the streets of its capital to thwart black market money changers and banning a long list of consumer goods from shovels and rice to toothpicks.