Use "thwarted" in a sentence

1. I storm past the girl on reception, ignoring her polite greeting and do my best to slam the door as I leave the building … I’m thwarted by the fact the blasted thing has an automatic door closer, a fact which merely inflames my temper even more

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2. At a guess, Gary’s not used to being thwarted, but then I’m much the same myself

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3. Long have they thwarted me, but their days

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4. chance meeting with Old Ged and the subsequent – thwarted –

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5. Brice had just left, once more thwarted in his efforts to recruit Alec to his cause when their conversation began

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6. The words 'Gale Force' was introduced into the language by one strong limbed poet who tried to clamber over the ramparts to reach the tenuous safety of a large clump of scurry bush, only to be thwarted and bowled back over the edge at his every attempt

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7. Everyone had already heard about Victoria's android attack on the natives and how that had been thwarted by a tarp, a cargo net, and some lighter-than-air animal with a guy hanging in a net beneath it

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8. Here was Ares, full of rage when thwarted, insistent that he’d only meant to help, heedless that he ruined others’ lives, crying to his father over wounds that had no power to kill him

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9. If human institutions had never thwarted those natural inclinations, the towns could nowhere have increased beyond what the improvement and cultivation of the territory in which they were situated could support; till such time, at least, as the whole of that territory was completely cultivated and improved

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10. But its once eager expansion seemed to be thwarted by the wave already

11. constantly thwarted by the efforts of the very effective team of Ambassador Adams and Secretary Moran, both of whom were

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12. had thwarted his mission to destroy the Yankee whalers in the

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13. However, before the link had even been established, the ‘dial up’ was thwarted, the console unable to identify the interference

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14. Lost in his own dismay at having been thwarted, Gerrid hadn’t noticed the figure behind him

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15. Never fear; attempts at grooming can be thwarted in a number of ways:

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16. Of course they would have every contingent in place to ensure he was thwarted

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17. She tried to pull her clothes into a semblance of order, but her hands wouldn’t stop shaking, and the buttons thwarted her

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18. She is eager to leave, to escape this place where her brother was murdered and she rose to prominence only to be thwarted by a factionless woman who wasn’t supposed to be alive

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19. With every thwarted attack I grow more confident, and my fear quickly turns into rage

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20. Here, one man thwarted the will of 60 percent of Arkansas voters

21. keeping the parental notice initiative off the ballot, the Court has once again thwarted the will of the people

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22. Unable to physically overpower him, the Philistines sought a way to capture this ‘upstart’ who thwarted them at every turn

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23. They are remorselessly vindictive when thwarted or exposed

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24. Personally, I think it was only thwarted in that because Alilia’s will and power is so much greater than the power of the first curse, and that the first curse was limited to secondary effects that had to be the result of our deaths

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25. The dog he has thwarted for no real purpose other than honour howls and jumps towards him

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26. But the Asian wasn’t one to be thwarted that easily

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27. Some wishes are destined to be thwarted

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28. If he had hoped to goad the other man, his hope was thwarted

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29. But, in the end, all my efforts were thwarted by what I must

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30. In England in the 1840s, several steamship companies experimented with iron hulls and screw propel lers, but Cunard thwarted them whenever he could and continued to use wooden hulls and sidewheelers

31. He believed that their plan had to be immediately thwarted

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32. Next in the hierarchy of needs comes love, which we will assume is thwarted for some reason

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33. I have no fear of loneliness or thwarted will, wherein others fear the agreement of

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34. We will not be thwarted by your childish pranks

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35. He had tried, over at Mabel's, but she had thwarted his efforts

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36. “Smithforge succeeded in creating a new Gong Seal but was thwarted from putting it in place by the ambitious Denizens of Chaos

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37. Now is the time of our victory for all battles thwarted!”

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38. They both still had their lives and liberty; Weasel and Stoat had been thwarted; and the Thief Master’s attempt to control him had come to naught (assuming that he had been involved at all, which now appeared to be very doubtful)

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39. He bears up bravely when his plans are thwarted and his purposes temporarily defeated

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40. As you so well know the trails to Phenix, having traversed them many times, so do I well know the way to the city of your disappointed hopes and thwarted ambitions

41. You have thwarted your mind by holding thoughts of inadequacy,

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42. Once again his actions were thwarted, as a Toyota Tiger came up the roadway

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43. I even tried to dig under but was thwarted there

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44. He had intended to finish his address and then have a visit with them before leaving, but this plan was thwarted by the conspiracy of events which immediately followed

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45. 21 The true believer does not grow weary in well-doing just because he is thwarted

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46. The kingdom as Jesus conceived it has to a large extent failed on earth; for the time being, an outward church has taken its place; but you should comprehend that this church is only the larval stage of the thwarted spiritual kingdom, which will carry it through this material age and over into a more spiritual dispensation where the Master's teachings may enjoy a fuller opportunity for development

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47. It was like struggling against some huge elemental force; his iron arms thwarted her efforts with an ease that sent panic racing through her limbs

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48. 5 Notwithstanding the Master's effort thus to establish this new sacrament of the remembrance, those who followed after him in the intervening centuries saw to it that his express desire was effectively thwarted in that his simple spiritual symbolism of that last night in the flesh has been reduced to precise interpretations and subjected to the almost mathematical precision of a set formula

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49. Judas had even thought to pose as having hastened out to warn them of the coming of the apprehenders, but this plan was thwarted by Jesus' blighting greeting of the betrayer

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50. The reward money the insurance companies have paid to the pilots of P I craft that have successfully thwarted pirate raids belong to the pilots and not to the Space Force

51. The home-coons had thwarted every other tactic to keep them at bay

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52. A few attacks on large installations had been successfully thwarted, but attacks on smaller ones had not

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53. You thwarted what would have been a devastating

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54. The group has been thwarted and their plans to expand their world control have been terminated

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55. It appears that over the last decade or so, a few acts of this nature have been thwarted

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56. Administrator, and his lieutenants, would have to be thwarted

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57. We establish principles of business that enable all to participate in our capitalistic system without being thwarted by people of money, and as discussed in Chapter 2 (no holding onto patents, use or lose), one time remuneration for critical discoveries, sharing economies of the big retailers, good ethical behavior, etc

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58. Where’s the justice here? Why did it take 35 years to settle? And a third man, not an engineer, David Sarnoff, worked the business end of the product like crazy and made all the money and had all the power, and thwarted Armstrong in court himself with the power he had to steal the use of Armstrong’s inventions

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59. A brief glimmer of hope that she was still alive was instantly thwarted by the vision before him

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60. Max thwarted him by flying off the ship in a helicopter

61. The silence was as overwhelming as the crash had been; death thwarted by nature as it had placed the boulder in that position, hundreds of years before

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62. Heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures thwarted all German efforts and took its toll

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63. The greater risk in the oil industry was thwarted by

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64. their fullness, while we thwarted the growth of others, simply to keep

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65. But, her last bastion of safe getaway was thwarted totally as she recognized, with a gasp, that the man with the scar not only went through her purse, but also the gun he was pointing at her as he sat in the dining room chair

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66. Now it was easily thwarted, and anyone who tried this trick against him would certainly lose

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67. I failed to accomplish their wishes; I thwarted their dreams

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68. The lil bomber was getting thwarted

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69. She didn't interfere because she had plans of her own, but somehow her plans were thwarted, and she had to escape

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70. Brits in a thwarted attack on a British Brewery in 2004

71. Carter stil felt thwarted but he reluctantly walked over

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72. Lovers, torn apart in the instant of their first meeting, their first sweet tryst of hot desire thwarted

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73. Jesus when He was born, but upon discovering that his plan was thwarted, the

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74. It was late in the seventh day that he freaked out, and then he become impatient and thwarted himself

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75. Now, his prime ministerial ambitions were being thwarted again, this time by one of his own

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76. Normally fool proof and impenetrable procedures would have to be thwarted if he was ever going to be able to siphon off the vast reserves of cash built up by all the terrorist organisations operating in Northern Ireland

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77. But the thwarted organisers went to central government, and Prime Minister David Cameron contemptuously and very publicly attacked the petty bureaucrats, and gave the thumbs up for organisers to go ahead with their plans

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78. And since habits, unlike beliefs, die hard, the habituation of various caste groups to their own swadharma would have thwarted any Islamic attempt to uproot Hinduism from the social soil of Aryavarta

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79. Unfortunately all of the members of Obotron 1 had indeed read this book several times by now, and had stealthily thwarted the other two’s relentless attempts to eat them

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80. Thwarted by ignorance, he is hemmed in by time, action, and

81. Yet when the humane, merciful and generous master saw her determination and objection to his carrying out this good deed, his innate sense of goodness became aroused to the point that he was even more determined to carry out his good deed; he cared for nothing around him, and would not be thwarted by any emotion however intense it might be

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82. This world – the real body of Earth and Its virtual mind – is in the throes of thwarted communion

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83. He broke into their hiding places, thwarted their schemes and confounded their criminal deeds, until they were beaten into submission

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84. Social antipathy is a mutual anger, a hatred of being thwarted

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85. Engendering a sense of powerlessness, while training one in the prowess of problem solving by eliminating the competition that hinders your innate, god given, and right granted exceptionalism, is a Tipping Point Therapy controlled and coaxed path to produce and direct a collective, that is systematically thwarted, to will violence

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86. a is the case, therefore you should feel b; if you feel b, shouldn't you do something, like x, y, or Z? The endless recycling of this formula becomes condensed into if a, then X, where X is the meta-irritation of being thwarted by the persistence and reinsistence of any issue a and its entailed feeling b

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87. When groups are thwarted and ghettoed, their concentrated resentments, and therefore integrated opposition to their oppressor, can explode into protests, riots, vigilantism, wars, and lynchings

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88. Yet Mohammad Amin’s ill-wishers, having been thwarted in their plans, were not happy to leave matters as they were

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89. He sat there, full of calm satisfaction: his face bright and shining and displaying complete confidence that he had thwarted the sorcerer

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90. Consequently, their attempts are thwarted and they are unable to exhibit their display of stabbing themselves with skewers

91. before security found him and thwarted his mission

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