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Clinton and Gore thwarted them and defeated Dole by convincing voters that Republican budget cuts threatened Medicare.
This rebuttal might have worked, but the debate challenge has thwarted it and has jeopardized Bradley's posture as a straight-talking idealist.
Others ascended to attempt to reach the roof but were thwarted by locked doors.
However, in fiddling with my keyboard I discovered that the italic form of æ (in Times New Roman at least) is almost indistinguishable from œ except with a magnifying glass—thus; œ, æ —so I can only assume you have been thwarted by a quirk of the computer!
Jingoistic pride thwarted past proposed international mergers, and led to quotas, tariffs and overcapacity at many auto plants worldwide.