Both America's and Iran's regional clients are now openly attempting to stymie the process of rapprochement.
From 2009 through 2012, Capitol Hill Republicans were highly imaginative in their efforts to stymie President Obama.
Corporations figure out our ‘bliss spots,’ manipulate the USDA, and stymie anyone who opposes them.
And as many of the wealthy women are well known, their public persona can stymie the process.
Would that derail or at least stymie the popularity of remaking old movies?
The simplest and most frequent is the waiving of the lost stroke for a stymie.
Of the stymie, let it be said, that as it always has been a freak of the game, so let it continue to be.
A stymie, is when the opponent's ball is on the line of your own putt.
Well, the first thing to be done is to get rid of Loudon's stymie with the authorities.
Duncan took his mashie and played the stymie shot perfectly, "just in the usual way."
1834, (n.), "condition in which an opponent's golf ball blocks the hole," perhaps from Scottish stymie "person who sees poorly," from stime "the least bit" (c.1300), of uncertain origin (Icelandic cognate skima is attested from c.1685). The verb, in golf, is from 1857; general sense of "block, hinder, thwart" is from 1902.
verb
To block or thwart; frustrate: Instead, the drive toward integration has been stymied by the speed-bump of crime
[1857+ Golf; origin uncertain; perhaps fr British dialect stimey, ''dim-sighted person,'' fr stime, ''ray or bit of light''; adopted in golf for situations where the player or, as it were, the ball cannot ''see'' a clear path ahead]
