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Students trying to storm the embassy were thwarted by Iranian troops.
In 1994, pro-choicers tried to insulate abortion from moral challenge by enveloping it in the Clinton health-care plan, but pro-lifers thwarted them.
The Poitras Report, recently released in Montreal, describes an inept organization that routinely broke the law, lacked ethics and professionalism, and embraced a code of silence that thwarted whistle-blowers.
This "ornamental culture" is like a perpetual twilight of adolescence; it is a thwarted adulthood.
An attempt to hijack an Israeli airliner was thwarted.