thwart

The trio of tomes invites thwarted travelers to stack volumes on the coffee table, settle into the sofa and turn the pages of our planet.

Prince said that despite $80 billion a year in spending, U.S. intelligence had nothing to do with thwarting the Nigerian national.

Military men defended the repression as key to thwarting the communist threat.

The outside world has achieved remarkable success delaying and thwarting the Iranian nuclear program.

Romney said current trade restrictions are thwarting economic growth in developing nations as well as in the United States.

The prison lobby ensures this does not happen by thwarting nearly every reform that could result in fewer people behind bars.

We are taking you to Dantor who has knowledge of the mad plans of the Llotta and is in need of your help in thwarting them.

First arouse any desire, and then you can give pleasure by gratifying it, displeasure by thwarting it.

Could he, as a means of thwarting his relative, be allowed to marry?

But a new power was coming to the front, at once assisting and thwarting our efforts.

All this time, she led me as miserable a life as she could; provoking and thwarting and insulting me at every opportunity.