Example sentences for: thwarting

How can you use “thwarting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Julia Roberts is back--albeit to mixed reviews--as a malicious schemer intent on thwarting her ex-lover's engagement.

  • Christine Todd Whitman, refers either to your ability to make up your own joke, or to Hillary Clinton's thwarting the governor from shaking hands with newly arriving Kosovo refugees.

  • And it's suggested that the current goal of thwarting Saddam's ability to wage chemical and biological warfare is far more nebulous than 1991's objective of throwing Saddam out of Kuwait.

  • The paper said, "US troops in Kosovo are vital, because the key is the decisive thwarting of Slobodan Milosevic's campaign, as destabilising as it is criminal, against its people."

  • It's not so hard, however, to imagine the GOP following the pattern set by the Democrats after 1972: pulling themselves together momentarily to field a winning centrist candidate four years later--and then thwarting his ability to govern (as the Democrats in Congress did Jimmy Carter's)--thereby producing an era of domination by the opposition for the next two decades.


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