Words similar to thwarting

Example sentences for: thwarting

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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.
Republicans reply that they're serving their country by debunking and thwarting a bad policy administered by a bad president.
The military leader Jan Sobieski defeated Turkish troops at the Battle of Chocim in 1673, and Sobieski would later be credited with saving Vienna from Turkish forces (and thwarting the Ottoman Empire’s designs on Western Europe).
The government introduced a package of measures to support families--by thwarting "quickie" weddings, making prenuptial agreements legally binding, and improving mediation services.
She would "divert resources from other candidates, politicize their races in ways that don't play well beyond the Upper West Side, and become a rallying point for conservatives still itching to exploit anti-Clinton sentiment," thus thwarting Democratic efforts nationwide.