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Violent pro-abortion protestors' attempts of an insurrection at the Arizona State Senate were thwarted Friday night, thanks to the swift actions from local and state law enforcement. – Kim Quintero	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Destiny cannot be thwarted; however you can assist her on your way to success. – Andreas Simic	added by anonymous 1 year ago
Any meaningful pandemic mitigation strategy must include robust rent relief and eviction moratoria, or interventions will be thwarted. – Emily Benfer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire -- learned from the teachings of antiquity -- that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy. – Frederick Bastiat	added by Normando 4 years ago
This common-sense religious freedom effort is far from over. We will not allow the clear will of the majority of Texans and a bipartisan majority of the Texas Legislature to be thwarted by a few. – Jonathan Saenz	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Companies should see that Chinese officials are seeking to acquire their intellectual property, not only through hacking, but also through the recruitment of insiders, companies should also see that working together with federal law enforcement authorities, as in this case, those attempted thefts can be thwarted and foreign actors can be brought to trial for their actions. – Ben Glassman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's been a dream of mine for almost 40 years, in the past, it was thwarted by the weather, such as earthquakes and avalanches. – Xia Boyu	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Andrew Weisman, a key prosecutor on Robert Mueller’s team, praised Obama DOJ holdover Sally Yates after she lawlessly thwarted President Trump, how much more evidence do we need that the Mueller operation has been irredeemably compromised by anti-Trump partisans? – Judicial Watch	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We are extremely pleased that Indiana's attempt to violate women's basic rights has been thwarted, this law attempted to do exactly what Supreme Court precedent said could not be done : invade a woman's privacy rights by preventing her from deciding whether to obtain a pre-viability abortion. – Ken Falk	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
They thwarted his bid for the NRM ticket and thought that would kill his momentum, you will see more tear gas. – Charles Rwomushana	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Anti-gun advocates are clearly frustrated. They want guns banned, but they have been thwarted in the past, so they are looking for alternative means. – Erich Pratt	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Police investigations at this stage indicate that we have thwarted an Islamist attack. – The German media reports	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We suspect that there was a Salafist background, police investigations at this stage indicate that we have thwarted an Islamist attack. – Peter Beuth	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Any attempt to harm our soldiers and civilians will be met with a determined response like the military action tonight that thwarted a terror attack. – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious. – David Mamet	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. – Juvenal	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Violent pro-abortion protestors' attempts of an insurrection at the Arizona State Senate were thwarted Friday night, thanks to the swift actions from local and state law enforcement.

– Kim Quintero

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Destiny cannot be thwarted; however you can assist her on your way to success.

– Andreas Simic

added by anonymous
1 year ago

Any meaningful pandemic mitigation strategy must include robust rent relief and eviction moratoria, or interventions will be thwarted.

– Emily Benfer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire -- learned from the teachings of antiquity -- that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.

– Frederick Bastiat

added by Normando
4 years ago

This common-sense religious freedom effort is far from over. We will not allow the clear will of the majority of Texans and a bipartisan majority of the Texas Legislature to be thwarted by a few.

– Jonathan Saenz

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Companies should see that Chinese officials are seeking to acquire their intellectual property, not only through hacking, but also through the recruitment of insiders, companies should also see that working together with federal law enforcement authorities, as in this case, those attempted thefts can be thwarted and foreign actors can be brought to trial for their actions.

– Ben Glassman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's been a dream of mine for almost 40 years, in the past, it was thwarted by the weather, such as earthquakes and avalanches.

– Xia Boyu

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Andrew Weisman, a key prosecutor on Robert Mueller’s team, praised Obama DOJ holdover Sally Yates after she lawlessly thwarted President Trump, how much more evidence do we need that the Mueller operation has been irredeemably compromised by anti-Trump partisans?

– Judicial Watch

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We are extremely pleased that Indiana's attempt to violate women's basic rights has been thwarted, this law attempted to do exactly what Supreme Court precedent said could not be done : invade a woman's privacy rights by preventing her from deciding whether to obtain a pre-viability abortion.

– Ken Falk

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They thwarted his bid for the NRM ticket and thought that would kill his momentum, you will see more tear gas.

– Charles Rwomushana

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Anti-gun advocates are clearly frustrated. They want guns banned, but they have been thwarted in the past, so they are looking for alternative means.

– Erich Pratt

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Police investigations at this stage indicate that we have thwarted an Islamist attack.

– The German media reports

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We suspect that there was a Salafist background, police investigations at this stage indicate that we have thwarted an Islamist attack.

– Peter Beuth

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Any attempt to harm our soldiers and civilians will be met with a determined response like the military action tonight that thwarted a terror attack.

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

– David Mamet

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.

– Richard Brinsley Sheridan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

– Juvenal

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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