How To Use Thwart In A Sentence

In an attempt to thwart piracy of its music, the label equipped a collection of 52 album releases with a type of software known as a rootkit. ITnews Australia
Certainly, it is a masterclass in grand ambition thwarted. Times, Sunday Times
A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.
The site benefited from centuries of Indian custom in that it lay athwart an old Indian portage between Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne and the river, the trail that now terminated as Rue de l' Hôpital.
The multilayered structure of power may thwart and complicate resistance. The Times Literary Supplement

It is a sumptuous and intelligent film about love and thwarted ambition. Times, Sunday Times
The two hostages of the escape attempt received medals of valour and were credited by the local press for thwarting the escape.
But the greatest relief of all was to discover that the apartment contained a bathroom and a latrine — for, as the agent gleefully explained, the insula lay right athwart one of Rome’s main sewers, and was legally supplied with an adjutage to the water supply. The First Man in Rome
The following year, Garcia took a one-stroke lead to the 70th hole of the PGA Championship but Harrington again thwarted Garcia's bid to break into the fraternity of major champions. In majors, taking on Tiger always part of the problem
The bunk should not be too wide: one rolls so in rough weather; of course it should not be athwartships, if avoidable. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
He cited the cases of a girl committing suicide after continued cyber-bullying and harassments and an online suicide pact among youth thwarted by South Korean police.
Measures to thwart them include burning, herbicides, and "tammy whacking" (physical removal sometimes done by freelance volunteers). Uncategorized Blog Posts
She was the virgin poetess dressed in white, the tremulous daughter who never left her father's house, the maiden who turned to art because she was thwarted in love.
His ambition to become a pilot was thwarted by poor eyesight.
Mr. Silber argues that humint has proven even more valuable than sigint in detecting and thwarting homegrown threats—the fastest-growing category of militant Islamist terror. How the NYPD Foiled the Post-9/11 Terror Plots
Kuyt escaped from Benoît Assou-Ekotto once to a flick-on from Carroll and set up a thwarted shooting opportunity from Charlie Adam as a result before the inevitable substitution arrived. Luis Suárez back for Liverpool but Dalglish starts with Andy Carroll
Each stateroom would then have been about 7 feet long fore and aft and could have contained four athwartship berths. The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80
Independent researchers are supposed to provide a counterbalance, thwarting the drug industry's tendency to turn research studies into marketing grist.
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However, the reason for rejecting the unanimity principle was itself very Russian; it was argued that one juryman should not be allowed to thwart the will of eleven others.
She was deeply irritated at being thwarted.
The accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to thwart government investigators.
Remember the jauntier days when that angel of death, Jessica Fletcher, traveled the land and thwarted homicidal maniacs on Murder, She Wrote? TV needs more sleuths of a certain age | EW.com
The push of the main group of forces should be directed at exploiting success and thwarting the enemy's attempts to restore its defenses.
The Island of St. Germain, the objective of the action, is a low mound of earth surrounded by swamps and was athwart the division zone of advance.
Once again I was thwarted in my attempt to understand how to tune in to the audio on the bank of TVs mounted above the treadmills.
He developed a tearful roar which he would use when thwarted, and a persistent self-pitying grizzle when he was bored or uncomfortable. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
Their plot was thwarted and the key members of the cell were jailed last month. Times, Sunday Times
Armed guards aboard the 510 ft ship immediately returned fire and the attack was thwarted, said a spokesman for the European Union's anti-piracy naval fleet.
The projected area looking forward is 22 square ft. and the projected area looking athwartship 22.84 square feet. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888
As a superb targeter of military forces, he was a most crafty inventor of countermeasures to thwart enemy action.
So another attack was thwarted, though no one knows about it. Times, Sunday Times
But they maintained their composure to thwart the league leaders through sustained periods of pressure. Times, Sunday Times
At a time when America's elites said that the United States was in an irreversible decline, and the rest of us should just get used to it, Ronald Reagan stood athwart what was then considered the tide of history and said: ‘No.’
Life as a spy is all glamour - women, alcohol, jetting around the globe for two hours before finally thwarting the enemy in the last ten minutes.
Of course, the sub-clause will bite only after Washington has made a move on Dr Khan and Pakistan has thwarted it. Pakistan Does Not Need American Aid, Good News
In fact, where Philby is concerned, I actually suspect the guy was a fascist sympathiser, hence his efforts to thwart any attempt on Franco’s life (when he was in an excellent position to do so, shacked up with an actress in Salamanca). Philby Jag « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
That they may escape the banking net is not necessarily a bad thing - it depends on whether this thwarts the legislative aims.
More important than the tilt of the oarlocks are the relative positions of the thwart (seat), the oarlocks and the footbrace.
The cowboy's face is a study of determination thwarted by mortal terror. Times, Sunday Times
His aqualung scraped the bottom of the punt and he reached up, grabbed the thwart and pulled the frail craft completely over. THE KEYS OF HELL
Hundreds of stargazers had travelled as far north as Orkney and Shetland to witness the spectacular celestial event, but most were thwarted by clouds which obscured the rare phenomenon.
Mary was one of those broken people, a life thwarted from what it could be.
It is a sumptuous and intelligent film about love and thwarted ambition. Times, Sunday Times
It is still a tale of thwarted hopes and suppressed unhappiness, but the misery she reveals is calamitous only in its traumatic effects on one family.
Jonathan Madden is a would-be twentieth century folly builder who's been thwarted by town planners.
Some practical measures should be taken to thwart these plans. Times, Sunday Times
Small timers, such as pickpockets, can be easily thwarted by carrying only sturdy, shoulder-strap purses, not carrying obvious camera or laptop computer bags or exposed cameras strung about your person, and by putting your cash out of harm´s way in a little bag hung around your neck and stowed under your shirt. Mexico City: Biggest city guide for the savvy traveler
In July 1702 he was offered the post of organist at Sangerhausen but was thwarted by the reigning duke, who preferred a candidate of his own choice; for several months thereafter he occupied his time as a lackey and violinist at Weimar.
And, when I'm thwarted, I'm likely to go all sour and spiky and be a pig to live with.
He is likely to be kept away from the main prison population to thwart attacks on him. The Sun
Although she is freeborn, Alice forfeits her freedom by assisting her enslaved lover's thwarted escape.
Angelology" revolves around a 23-year old nun, who teams with an angelologist named Verlaine as they race to thwart a group that tries to corral the destructive powers of a race of angel / human hybrids called Nephilim. Gawker
The Conservatives, who won the votes of barely one in five Canadians in the federal election held October 14, are accusing the opposition parties of attempting a "putsch" and thwarting the will of the electorate. Canada's "putsch": Oppose Conservative power-grab! No support to Liberal-NDP coalition!
He ran on to the rebound, but again he was thwarted as the keeper back-pedalled furiously to complete his solo stand.
However, thanks to smuggling, piracy, and trade with the New World, England was able to thwart Napoleon's plan.
It seems ready to have some divine hand wring its contents over me - which may thwart an alternative plan to head 13 miles southwest. Times, Sunday Times
Fortunately I am a light sleeper, so I should be able to thwart any attempts to slice bits off me for a tasty midnight snack.
CEDRON, and above it, overthwart, lay a tree (that the cross was made of) that men yede over on. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Toledo, I must needs confess and acknowledge that veritably the devils cannot be killed or die by the stroke of a sword, I do nevertheless avow and maintain, according to the doctrine of the said diabology, that they may suffer a solution of continuity (as if with thy shable thou shouldst cut athwart the flame of a burning fire, or the gross opacous exhalations of a thick and obscure smoke), and cry out like very devils at their sense and feeling of this dissolution, which in real deed I must aver and affirm is devilishly painful, smarting, and dolorous. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
It pretends to be pro-gay but stands athwart the path to full equality and social acceptance, crying, ‘No, no, don't go there’.
The site benefited from centuries of Indian custom in that it lay athwart an old Indian portage between Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne and the river, the trail that now terminated as Rue de l' Hôpital.
He was thwarted by police in balaclava helmets, who began surrounding his flat at 3am that day. Times, Sunday Times
In yet another egregious political machination, however, Fujimori supporters in congress unconstitutionally thwarted this popular initiative on a dubious technicality.
A concerted communist attempt to oust Ross from the railways union was thwarted as a result of lobbying and branch stacking orchestrated by Ferguson.
But he was thwarted after a female worker reached forward and closed the till before he could snatch any cash.
Thus, he aided reaction and thwarted progress.
It seems ready to have some divine hand wring its contents over me - which may thwart an alternative plan to head 13 miles southwest. Times, Sunday Times
Police had already thwarted attempts to bring two huge van bombs to Madrid, and to detonate a car bomb in Bilbao.
The pull of a mystery that needs to be solved, or of an unseen and looming threat that needs to be thwarted is alluring for many readers, and for me, combining that with either an epic, urban or alternative fantasy setting is better than ice cream and cake. MIND MELD: What's Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy?
A further step imbeds images into the address, which thwarts the most persistent bots.
The record labels have attempted to thwart the efforts of free music providers through the creation of copyright-protected files and through lawsuits against providers of free music.
Then he creates a hyperkinetic rubber called flubber and suddenly he's thwarting villains, winning basketball games and saving his rinky-dinky college, as well as his love life. Film Clips
That strategy could be thwarted by a lawsuit challenging expansion financing that is now awaiting review by the state Supreme Court.
To bring the compass needle back to North it would be necessary to move up nearer the compass dial the fore-and-aft magnet (shown below), whose magnetism would act on the compass needle on this heading of the ship exactly as the athwartship magnet acted on the compass needle when the ship was headed North: Lectures in Navigation
The pair of stories on obsessive and thwarted travel were inherently undramatic and for that reason we wanted to put them on stage.
The horror of what may have happened is matched only by the relief that this plot was thwarted. Times, Sunday Times
It's a delicate endeavor, as one element must be cajoled and conciliated, and the other flatly thwarted within the bounds of democratic politics. Joshua Treviño: A Step Forward in Malaysia
The microscopic injuries thwart development of surrounding tissue and appear as big brown spots after the seed matures and is marketed and hulled.
We are going to be using those same people to thwart him.
To further thwart engagement, a LACM could employ relatively simple countermeasures such as chaff and decoys.
O, thats a brave man! he writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose. Act III. Scene IV. As You Like It
Along the way, the birds court and mate, thwart the red-tailed hawks, and breed.
This is a constant refrain from the sheriff – anyone who seeks to impose any limit on his power is therefore evil and conspiring to thwart his will. Coyote Blog » 2009 » December
In areas where water restrictions can thwart a gardener's best efforts, rosarians might want to consider using a soil polymer to maintain moisture in the soil for a longer period of time.
The berths of the nations run athwartship, or north and south as the great ark is anchored. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876
Was his manoeuvre a rush of blood, or a rush of thwarted ambition? Times, Sunday Times
And they succeeded as Garner's final save thwarted Lee Canoville in the closing seconds.
They were thwarted in their attempt to gain overall control of the company.
Cheney Mason charge NeJame with harboring an "ulterior motive" in his attempt to "thwart SplicedFeed
The Labour backbenches are now stuffed with the disappointed, the thwarted, the fired, the has-beens and those that were never likely to amount to anything in the first place.
Because Fairbairn thought that it is not possible for the child who needs others to withdraw completely from objects when deprived or thwarted, he viewed the child’s ego as coping with environmental failure by splitting its experiences with bad objects into the following different internal parts, the totality of which is referred to as the endopsychic structure. Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice
Some practical measures should be taken to thwart these plans. Times, Sunday Times
And so, out to thwart mortality again, I agreed finally to have my teeth cleaned by the hygienist. Tortures and Rewards « Tales from the Reading Room
She tells me they're giving an award to the senator because he stands athwart conventional wisdom on many issues.
Twisted her other behind her back, all while avoiding the wriggling kicks and thwarting the clever maneuvers designed to slither out of even the tightest holds. Earl of Durkness
He accused Kremlin hawks of a conspiracy to keep the war going to bolster their own power and thwart his ambitions.
A gang which tried to mug a Selby woman in broad daylight was thwarted when her dog leapt to her defence.
The pleasure is perverse: the thrill of an incessantly thwarted chase. Times, Sunday Times
The old men pose athwart a water wheel.
Both efforts were thwarted by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who ruled that they were not "germane" to the legislation under consideration. Taxpayer-Owned Fannie Mae Attacks Struggling Homeowners
The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison.
He took his hand off the hilt of his dagger at last, though still his eyes were fixed athwart the city.
It was the same day four more attempted bomb attacks were thwarted in the capital. The Sun
They can, however, have happier endings once enough people stand athwart the system, and yell stop.
An excellent archer, he lived in Sherwood Forest with the fair Maid Marian, the stalwart Little John, the priest Friar Tuck, the musician Allan-a-Dale, and others who helped him rob rich landlords and thwart his chief enemy, the sheriff of Nottingham. Robin Hood
To the south, athwart the mountain's lower slope, was a maze of byways and ramshackle housing for the native population.
In concert with contemporary theory, she posits a world of belated, thwarted deixis, of quasi-chimerical example.
The flight from Paris after their father's death, the escape to England, the refuge at a Brighton hotel -- the sudden projecture of Hugh Fraser athwart their humble lives. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story
The plot was thwarted because police from the northwest counterterrorism unit arrested the youth on suspicion of threats to kill his teachers. Times, Sunday Times
An athwartship line of armor runs from the water line to the barbettes, resting upon the protective deck. Marvels of Modern Science
In Bolivia, three foreign nationals were killed and two arrested in what the Bolivian government called a thwarted assassination plot on President Evo Morales. Democracy Now!
His progress was briefly thwarted by the locked gate, but he managed to vault the boundary wall without breaking a sweat and disappeared down the road at superhuman speed.
Competition thwarted this cartel when members reneged on the deal, exceeding their quotas.
The line used to control the forward or athwartships movement of a sail. Sailing Fundamentals
Cameron's college audience in Beijing will know all this stuff just as British kids know about the wickedness of Hitler and the ambitions of Napoleon or Phillip II of Spain – all pluckily thwarted by you know who. David Cameron should not have worn that poppy in China
But his plans are thwarted by the irrational behaviour of others. Times, Sunday Times
For a short while, the police continued to insist that they had thwarted an armed insurrection.
My plans were thwarted by an unfortunate war and to assure deferment from the military, I found myself a misplaced medical student at Johns Richard Axel - Autobiography
Each bench holds a tragic little operetta of thwarted desire and hapless yearning. Times, Sunday Times
That case hinged on an interpretation of the Hobbs act, a 1946 law aimed at thwarting gangsters from extorting interstate truckers.
A poor circus performer, Heikishi Endo, is framed by K-20 and has to resort to daring thievery of his own to reclaim his good name and thwart the fiend, who is trying to get a big Tesla coil to use as a weapon. Fantastic Fest – K-20: The Fiend With Twenty Faces « Geek Related
Japanese intended surprise attack was thwarted by the American communication intelligence.
Larger than life, he accompanied each step of my journey with moods to match - allegro, penseroso, adagio, furioso: his exuberance alternated with expressions of harshness and nervous fury at life's intransigent thwarting of his will.
A criticism levelled at Inveraray is that the attacking thrust is often thwarted by over-elaboration among the forwards.
His ambition to become a pilot was thwarted by poor eyesight.
The attempt to use the criminal law to punish those who embarrass ministers has been thwarted. Times, Sunday Times
They successfully conquered East Anglia, but were thwarted by the first range of hills.
I glance in the mirror and find, to my disappointment, that she's still athwart the bike.
These calls are nothing but political spam, and since it is possible to thwart computer-spam transmissions, surely the technology exists, or can be devised, to block robocalls.
It would thwart efforts to link pay with performance and hand a gift to the City's rivals as an international financial centre. Times, Sunday Times
This has frustrated the restaurant entrepreneur somewhat and thwarted him from rolling out more establishments.
May I be thrown amidst all the devils of hell, even as a great bowl cast athwart at a set of ninepins, or cannon-ball shot among a battalion of foot, in case so many times I do not boult my future wife the first night of our marriage! Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
This florid and fulsome eulogy was written by that singular being who could thus flatter, and almost apotheosize, the inventor in public, while in secret he was doing everything to thwart him, and who never, as long as he lived, ceased to antagonize him, and later accused him of having claimed the credit of an invention all the essentials of which were invented by others. Letters and Journals 02]
When he reached the penalty area he drove the ball low to the home keeper's left only to be thwarted by an excellent save.
So far it has been a case of attacks thwarted - and there have been many. Times, Sunday Times
Hopefully, he'll recover his stony-faced cool in time to thwart the intergalactic threat.
So if they can thwart it through terrorist and insurgent violence, they think they'll get a victory.
The tremendous moral power of this solitary work lies in the fact that it is a series of terrific and fascinating tableaux, embodying the idea of inflexible poetic justice impartially administered upon king and varlet, pope and beggar, oppressor and victim, projected amidst the unalterable necessities of eternity, and moving athwart the lurid abyss and the azure cope with an intense distinctness that sears the gazer's eyeballs. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
The story revolves round the locals’ attempts to thwart the plan.
Moyses, with the children of Israel, overthwart the see, alle drye, whan Pharao the Kyng of Egypt chaced hem. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
By the late 1920s, many business and labor leaders and academic economists believed that policies to keep wage rates high would maintain workers' level of purchasing, providing the "steadier" markets necessary to thwart economic contractions. Krugman's Hooverite View on Wages, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Three people have been arrested after Britain's first alleged attempted online bank robbery was thwarted.
Glad to hear it," returned the other, who could read our name astern as she lay athwart us. The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
My previous scheme was to auction off a date with me to this event on EBay, but now I am thwarted.
In western adolescent patient, many people come from cracked family or amative be thwarted or unemployment to wait, The maleThanFemaleAbout many 1/4 arrives 1/3.
Assume, for a moment, that the French and the Germans aren't thwarting us out of pique, but by design, long-term design.
Critics warned that writing patent law into a trade agreement could thwart ongoing efforts to lift restrictions on the reimportation of cheap drugs from Canada and other countries.
Plans for a gentle walk followed by lunch, a snooze in the library then afternoon tea are quickly thwarted when I discover we are all off for a spot of abseiling at Neiste Point.
The pair will be able to use their stake to thwart any takeover attempt.
DeviceLock also detects and thwarts USB and PS/2 hardware-based key loggers, which is a natural extension to SentryBay's protection against software-based key loggers. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
That's enough to thwart the tetrodotoxin and keep the muscles going - until either prey or predator evolves a new weapon.
This flight of capital is not some nefarious capitalist plot to thwart the will of the people. Times, Sunday Times
For an endless period, as it seemed to me, I lay with my head on the thwart watching the schooner (she was a little ship, schooner-rigged fore and aft) come up out of the sea. The Island of Doctor Moreau
He developed a tearful roar which he would use when thwarted, and a persistent self-pitying grizzle when he was bored or uncomfortable. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
This done, I caused Simpson to unstep the gig's single mast and lay it fore and aft in the boat, with the heel resting upon and firmly lashed to the small grating which covered the after end of the boat between the backboard of the stern-sheets and the stern-post, while the head was supported by a crutch formed of two stretchers lashed together and placed upright upon the bow thwart, the whole being firmly secured in place by the two shrouds attached to the mast-head. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron
He is likely to be kept away from the main prison population to thwart attacks on him. The Sun
Had our intelligence people arrested this Pig prior to entering the aircraft, that would constitute a thwarted attempt, a misfire is a failed attempt that surpassed all safety and screening barriers. White House: President notified of new flight scare
That strategy could be thwarted by a lawsuit challenging expansion financing that is now awaiting review by the state Supreme Court.
A thwarted love affair is the stuff of fiction.
At high noon the sun, without raising its rim above the southern horizon, threw a suggestion of fire athwart the heavens, then quickly drew it back. The White Silence
Dust covers the entire city; the smell of diesel fumes is pervasive no matter where you go; there are ruins and debris everywhere you look; and the trees are all destroyed (either cut down for fuel or by the Soviets years earlier to thwart snipers who used them for cover). Khaled Hosseini - An interview with author
Some practical measures should be taken to thwart these plans. Times, Sunday Times
But to place that tribute athwart the vista of the mall would be the act of a country that no longer understands its own history.
The white kaolin clay has extra fine particles that simultaneously thwart insects and act as an alkaline barrier to fungal spores.
We of course wanted clear skies or our efforts would be thwarted but the morning had been very overcast and we were not hopeful.
I call it athwart parking rather than parallel parking. Fatal Error
In this room he had often outwatched the night, chewing the cud of his wrongs, invoking vengeance upon the thwarter of his hopes, and swearing through his teeth to even the balance between them. Idolatry A Romance
The president is thought to fear that a perceived increase in crime could thwart his efforts to reform the criminal justice system. Times, Sunday Times
The scuffle at Kuala Lumpur airport was fuelled by nearly two weeks of thwarted hope. Times, Sunday Times
It is expected to say that tobacco companies have deliberately thwarted international efforts to control the sale of cigarettes.
We successfully thwarted the enemy's conspiracy.
Chatwin wrote that this novel was an experiment in "circular time," and it's the way his prose particularizes time's passage, the efficient sweep of the narrative over several thwarted households, that makes it so satisfying. The News From Everywhere
And thus they rode nigh a quarter of a year, endlong and overthwart, in many places, forests and wilderness, and oft-times were evil lodged for his sake; and yet for all their labour and seeking could they never hear word of him. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Palomides as soon as I am whole I shall seek him endlong and overthwart, and that I promise you as I am true knight; and if ever Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
His interest in denialism concerns the use of rhetorical tactics by various industries in thwarting responsible public policy. May 2007
The terrible vengeance of the thwarted father is like a medieval saga but it is playing out in modern London. Times, Sunday Times
For all these years we had this huge military alliance designed to thwart the dreaded Commies.
Many of these draws were hard-fought attempts to win, ingeniously thwarted.
Some philosophers contend that death is a harm inasmuch as it thwarts a central desire: to stay alive.
Yesterday's evening rains soaked the dirt enough to cause hundreds of nightcrawlers to surface, thus thwarting death by drowning in drenched soil. Fun With Bait Collection
As Filmer went up and down that room wrestling with his intolerable dilemma he went first towards the neat little rifle athwart the blotting-pad and then towards the neat little red label Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
Sometimes, thinking of the pure instincts thwarted in every heart, -- of the noble traits in damned souls, sent hellwards by birth or barred into temptation by society, a vision flashed before him of some scheme of the universe where all matter and mind were rising, slowly, through the ages, to eternal life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
Gerstler's poems highlight the problematics of written discourse, requiring yet thwarting the operations of both memory and understanding.
One way to thwart such unscrupulous people is for the bona fide seed companies to make their presences felt at every level in the country.
At the end of the third year I waxed aweary of this lonesome mourning, and one day I happened to enter the cenotaph when vexed and angry with some matter which had thwarted me, and suddenly I heard her say: — O my lord, I never hear thee vouch safe a single word to me! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
On the north-east coast, Royal Findhorn Yacht Club's race officials were thwarted by unfavourable tides and dying wind for day one of their dinghy regatta.
He had a golden opportunity to notch another hat-trick here, but wasn't as sharp as usual and was thwarted by a mixture of poor finishing and fine goalkeeping.
The evening sun, shooting athwart a clear expanse of water, between eighteen and twenty leagues in circumference, lighted up all the towns and villages, and towered castles, and spiry convents, that enriched the rising shores; brought out all the various tints of cultivation, and coloured with beamy purple the mountains which on every side formed the majestic background of the landscape. The Italian
The attempt to use the criminal law to punish those who embarrass ministers has been thwarted. Times, Sunday Times
The solar flares and the corona of the sun danced athwart the planet's silhouette.
At some points in history, the role of conservatism has been to be reactive and to stand athwart history yelling ‘stop’, Rove says.
Protagonists generally have needs, desires, goals, aversions and fears, and their efforts to achieve their goals are generally complicated or thwarted by an antagonist, who may be hostile to the protagonist.
I had my ambush thwarted as a murder of crows cawed away.
Others again DID reach the upper decks, found their way to the nearest fore or aft lifeboat blocked by rolls of athwartships barbed wire, and went below again to find some passage which would bring them up to a lifeboat no further away than twenty yards from where they stood. The Lonely Sea
And though ye cut them in never so many gobbets or parts, overthwart or endlong, evermore ye shall find in the midst the figure of the Holy Cross of our Lord The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The arrival of Islam and Nestorian Christians in the 7th century, and the famous Jesuit adaptation to Chinese culture during the 17th century, thwarted by an intransigent Vatican, are part of it.
After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union's strategic goals were too comprehensive and inflexible to be thwarted by a single defeat.
The most that he could do was to thwart their plans for him. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Lay them thwart, that the top of one may rest on the root or stub of the other.

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