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Conservatives thwarted them and captured Congress by convincing voters that the plan threatened existing health benefits, particularly the right of patients to choose their doctors.
Students trying to storm the embassy were thwarted by Iranian troops.
A thwarted Mongol invasion in 1274 weakened the Kamakura regime.
It also thwarted a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, and thank God for that, for the entire course of history might have been different had the Great Emancipator been cut down.
This rebuttal might have worked, but the debate challenge has thwarted it and has jeopardized Bradley's posture as a straight-talking idealist.