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Sentence count:90+5Posted:2017-06-19Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: thwartathwartwarmheartedwarm-heartedpartedart editorcold-heartedhalf-heartedMeaning: [θwɔrt /θwɔːt]  adj. disappointingly unsuccessful. 
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31. Police had already thwarted attempts to bring two huge van bombs to Madrid, and to detonate a car bomb in Bilbao.
32. But they worry that more reforms could be thwarted by a few workers who seem preoccupied with exerting their authority over patients.
33. The pronunciamientos of 1824-20 were a combination of officer discontents, thwarted ambition, and liberal principle.
34. But Tod looked at it with real feeling, with the dull heat of-I don't know thwarted love.
35. Thus, when the managerial control of labour is thwarted by industrial action, ultimately the employment relationship itself is being undermined.
36. There have been many cases in which encryption has thwarted us big time.
37. Thwarted in the East it then burst forth in the West.
38. Where their partners control what they manage, women can find their attempts to meet health needs and financial commitments thwarted.
39. Dyslexia takes an immense toll in lost productivity, thwarted careers, frustration, depression and other behavioral problems.
40. But their efforts to climb back out were continually thwarted by brittle rock, which made hand and foot holds difficult.
41. It is expected to say that tobacco companies have deliberately thwarted international efforts to control the sale of cigarettes.
42. But unless escape routes have been allowed, that response will be thwarted.
43. Firstly, he certainly thwarted some papal provisions by taking vigorous action against any bishop involved in the process.
44. And yet it looks doomed to failure, thwarted by a United States-led opposition.
45. Jonathan Madden is a would-be twentieth century folly builder who's been thwarted by town planners.
46. A government-run press centre in the tense Presevo valley area bordering Kosovo claimed special police had thwarted the abduction attempt.
47. What happened happened; destiny was not to be thwarted by mere human ambition.
48. The travellers had already been thwarted by Gloucestershire police,[www.Sentencedict.com] who blocked entrances to a site in the Forest of Dean.
49. Small children are encouraged to be small tyrants, to react violently if thwarted.
50. City expansion has increased local property tax revenues and has thwarted some flight to suburbia.
51. People whose appetite for encryption may be thwarted righteously, effectively, and harshly.
52. He, however, is becoming increasingly petulant and argumentative, playing scrum-half like a thwarted 15-year-old on the netball court.
53. The assassination attempt on his life had been thwarted and his master plan on the Continent was going exactly to plan.
54. Coleridge in such cajoling and overwrought spirits was not to be thwarted, and Poole sensibly gave up all further resistance.
55. Thwarted, he then embraced her stiffly before taking the baby in his arms under the watchful eye of his wife.
56. Three people have been arrested after Britain's first alleged attempted online bank robbery was thwarted.
57. Traders and institutions value anonymity because it enables them to pursue investment strategies without being thwarted by competitors, the groups said.
58. An attempt to smuggle heroin worth £30 million into the country has been thwarted by customs officials.
59. Barred: Burglars who broke into the Spennymoor Leisure Centre were thwarted in their efforts to break into the bar.
60. Berkowitz's plan to make a fortune from the document was thwarted when Mr Ashdown publicly revealed the affair.
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