Young people do not like to be always thwarted.
I feel thwarted.
You've thwarted destiny enough.
" My grandmother did not reply, but there was a glint in her eye and a grim set to her jaw that signaled she was not going to be thwarted.
Obama had authorized a statement to be issued by intelligence agency leaders a month before the election warning of Russian interference, but was thwarted from doing more because Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, refused to go along with a bipartisan statement.
The Easter egg hunt takes Parzival and his crew back into Halliday's biography — his ill-starred partnership with Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg), his thwarted attempts at romance — and also through the evolution of video games and related pursuits.
" My grandmother did not reply, but there was a glint in her eye and a grim set to her jaw that signaled she was not going to be thwarted.
Are you asking me to retrace my steps through past relationships and find the mistake I made that thwarted a walk down the aisle?
China and South Korea, both of which operate state-of-the-art bases here, are ramping up their fishing of krill, the shrimplike crustaceans found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently thwarted efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries here.
" The local authority has attempted to carry out replacement programmes in several parts of the city, targeting trees that have raised pavements with their roots or have lost branches, but those plans have on occasions been thwarted.
But Belgian prosecutors still plan to ask Greece to extradite one of those arrested in connection with the thwarted terror strike.
And General Li Guang's thwarted effort was his fate, not his fault.
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987), Fifth Avenue Uptown: A Letter from It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.