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They will limit your power to control sentences similar to yours, just as they stymied Anheuser-Busch, the owners of the slogan, “Where there's life, there's Bud,” who failed in their attempt to prevent use of all slogans beginning, “Where there's life.
And double oops--one of the stymied guests was a member of the U.S.
In both towers, civilians who were able to reach the stairs and descend were also stymied by the deviations in the stairways and by smoke doors.
There, they attempt to repair their broken spaceship but are stymied by the hook-nosed owner of the local parts shop--Watto--who also happens to have a thick Yiddish accent!
In the NYT lead, Democratic pooh-bahs whine that their spring fund-raising drive was stymied by the Balkan war and the Columbine massacre, each of which caused President Clinton's to cancel potentially lucrative events.