Sentences with phrase «on thwarting»

The question will be whether one - off, niche social networks can succeed in the face of massive networks like Facebook and its Groups feature by focusing on thwarting abuse and creating a more civil discussion space.

Global warming has reach critical... a suicidal CEO is intent on thwarting their plans because his son did not get into Harvard.

This account of Mississippi's Sovereignty Commission — a spy network bent on thwarting civil rights — is flat - out chilling.

Sourcefabric has a history of developing award - winning platforms, primarily in journalism and news publication, but the launch of the book publishing platform has already been put to use by organizations such as a South African collective of teachers developing textbooks together; Internews used Booktype to publish its how - to guide on thwarting internet censorship, and the 400 - plus page title Cryptoparty, which was written with the help of over twenty authors.

Surely, a better script would find a reasonable compromise or resolution that allows the full roster of the Kingsmen and Statesmen to co-exist as similar yet different factions focused on thwarting the plots of cheesy Roger Moore - era James Bond evil masterminds.

Pies verdict: Carlitos seems hell - bent on thwarting United's attempts to buy him, which leaves Man City in the box seat.

This is the position for the no - nonsense defender who can concentrate solely on thwarting opposition attacks while the others play the ball out.

The game had ended on a thwarted dash to the goal line, or so it seemed.

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President Donald Trump once again took aim at the Senate filibuster, a procedural maneuver that can thwart legislation without at least 60 votes to end debate on the subject.

This is, in a nutshell, McConnell's case for reelection: that as Kentucky's heavyweight in Washington, he'll thwart the assault liberals are waging not just on the health care system and the coal industry but, more broadly, on the state's way of life.

Shareholders will vote on a rights plan devised by management to thwart Icahn's takeover bid in Toronto on May 4.

The key bit, I think, is the tweeting and off - the - cuff but on - the - record musings, which symbolizes a president who can not stop himself from thwarting his own policy agenda.

Amid a few bright spots on the earnings front, the WA economy's rebound is being thwarted by still - low global prices for iron ore.

The tool would deploy a fake app to thwart enforcement agencies that were attempting to crack down on the service.

The acquisition would come a year after a U.S. federal judge thwarted a merger between Staples and peer Office Depot (odp) on antitrust grounds.

A workplace environment centered on ruthless competition stifles diversity and thwarts long - term company success.

The fifth - largest U.S. bank skimped on staffing and resources that banks are supposed to have to thwart suspicious activities, the feds say

The chocolate maker has used a distinct shade of purple (Pantone 2685C) on its Dairy Milk wrappers since 1914, but recent attempts to trademark that colour in Britain have been thwarted by its arch rival Nestlé.

Dozens of firms rushed to contain the damage from possible security weak points following the anti-secrecy organization's revelations, although some said they needed more detailed information on what the U.S. intelligence agency was up to before they can thwart suspected, but previously hidden attacks.

The Justice Department contended that Google would have been able to use its dominance of Internet search to thwart competition if it were able to expand its reach on to Yahoo's popular website.

Authorities in Baton Rouge last week thwarted a planned attack on police officers days after the shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was killed by police in an encounter that was largely captured on video and raised widespread concerns about the officers» actions.

His first attempt to launch Quay Valley was thwarted by litigation over water rights and the financial crisis of 2008; the new plan is to break ground on the site, a 7,200 - acre expanse halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, sometime in 2016.

In fact the pill seems to have been put in place to thwart Carl Icahn, who really is exactly the sort of guy who would run a coercive two - step tender offer to put pressure on shareholders so he can take control of a company.

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump warned Russia on Wednesday that it should «get ready» for a missile strike on Syria, vowing to thwart any missile defenses.

Watchdogs thwarted a past attempt to merge on fears consumers would be hurt.

The same issue can thwart women who try to get on an income - driven repayment (IDR) plan after the end of a marriage, said Dean.

Another ACCS report noted the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has failed to sufficiently test its ability to thwart cyber attacks on its weapons systems.

XRP's contested status may have thwarted Ripple's attempt to get it listed on the major domestic exchanges.

The Cannes film festival on Monday denounced an attempt to thwart the world premiere of one of the most cursed films in history, standing by its director, Monty Python's Terry Gilliam.

A televangelist admitted in front of a television audience that he cheated on his wife, an announcement he made to thwart people he said were trying to extort millions of dollars from him.

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

Pop star Ed Sheeran's plans to build a private chapel on his estate in East Anglia could be thwarted... More

Early on, in the chapters on contraception, Wills appears to take the familiar «liberal» position that the popes and their apologists are guilty of thwarting authentic development of doctrine and of ignoring the sensus communis of the laity.

But I am also aware that His presence presses unrelentingly upon me through the disorder of my mind, for He will not let Himself be thwarted by it,, challenging and repairing it, and requiring of me on my part to yield my thoughts to His healing and controlling revelation.

With the aid of neither transcendence nor forgiveness — a bottom line on the freedom to try again after failure — relationships are thwarted.

Worshippers at the Islamic Center of North America in Michigan react to a thwarted attack on the mosque.

Some deep - seated psychological maladjustment, a chip on the shoulder, thwarted ambition, misdirected idealism — these and other motives were at work.

She gets to have every woman's actual secret dream job, which is to be the lone female on a team of guys — in this case a samurai - like cadre of unlikely heroes assembled by Trevor to thwart the deployment of an ultra-lethal poison gas by a rogue German commander.

I know these days can be hard for so many of us — you may be tired, heartbroken, estranged from loved ones, yearning for more, settling for less, broke, afraid, betrayed, rejected, struggling, addicted, disillusioned, lonely, isolated, thwarted, doubting, numb, any or all sorts of things that aren't showing up on the easily resolved Hallmark Christmas movies or the shiny - happy - Jesus - people.

God is a most sensitive individual, with the highest ideals, constantly thwarted at every turn, yet who resolutely refuses to give up his grip on either ideality or actuality.

The process theist may say that natural events do not thwart [God] but are the occasions for his exercise of creative power, but he still must admit that on his view of the matter God is still limited in the sense that he neither creates nor wholly controls actual occasions.

Milone claimed that the Vatican's «old guard» had thwarted his efforts to tell the pope and Cardinal Parolin exactly what was going on in the Vatican's books.

Dostoevsky's novels teem with thwarted characters on the verge of exploding — Raskolnikov, Ivan Karamazov, the radicals of The Possessed.

Are individual rights based on societal righteousness within the parameters of cultural soundness for so being as the kindled crooked line drawn, distanced and so bellicosely thwarted by religious austerities so choosing?

Military sources, meanwhile, said Monday that Egyptian security forces had thwarted a militant attack on a church in Rafah the previous night.

Contraception, on the other hand, is an abuse in and of itself, since it treats fertility as a problem to be overcome or thwarted.

THWARTING their goals needs no hate or violence, and it can be done VERY effectively, if we'd get cracking on it in time.

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Since God does not have a monopoly on power, God's will - and consequently God's response to prayers consonant with the divine will - can be and sometimes is thwarted by the recalcitrance of non divine actualities, whether persons or cancer cells.

So soon as the fruits began to seem quite worthless; so soon as they conflicted with indispensable human ideals, or thwarted too extensively other values; so soon as they appeared childish, contemptible, or immoral when reflected on, the deity grew discredited, and was erelong neglected and forgotten.