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Jingoistic pride thwarted past proposed international mergers, and led to quotas, tariffs and overcapacity at many auto plants worldwide.
Turkey's desire to join the European club has hitherto been thwarted by its historic enemy Greece (already a member) and by European concerns about its human rights record.
Students trying to storm the embassy were thwarted by Iranian troops.
He took it up, and Attorney General Janet Reno approved his investigation, because what had happened to Lewinsky--Vernon Jordan found her a plum job after she thwarted prosecutors' efforts to incriminate Clinton--eerily resembled what had happened to Whitewater-scandal figure Webster Hubbell.
As she told National Public Radio, her desire to study medicine was thwarted by officials who wanted her to remain available for media interviews that stemmed from the photograph's worldwide fame; she herself had become a propaganda exhibit.