Sentences with phrase «stymies most efforts»
But according to Larry Peterson, an Internet researcher at Princeton University and head of PlanetLab, the Internet's vastness now stymies most efforts at innovation.
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With one of the most sophisticated and well - heeled lobbies in the country ($ 8 to $ 9 million annual budget), the NRA fiercely stymies all efforts by legislators to pass gun laws, even though the results of local attempts have shown beyond reasonable doubt that such laws can be effective.
Most recently, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was stymied in his effort to create a plan, which was ultimately blocked in the state Assembly.
One of the most common cancer - causing genes has continuously stymied researchers» efforts to develop treatments against it.
This most radical of choice based schools — where students and teachers never meet in physical classrooms and state funding flows on a performance - based, demand - driven model — has largely avoided the political and legal tangles that have stymied other reform efforts.
Most of their efforts to stymie clean energy have failed.