11.   His plan is almost thwarted by a single bead of his own sweat.

12.   No other leader has a realistic chance of toppling Bouchard, thereby thwarting separatist plans to hold another referendum on independence before the end of the century.

13.   Officials allege that the men planned to bomb a busy subway station and a commuter bus and that the arrests thwarted the plan at the very last minute.

14.   That plan was thwarted after word of the changes was reported and Chammah was persuaded to stay at Morgan Stanley.

15.   The lawsuit is only the latest tactic by transit advocates trying to thwart plans for the fare increase.

16.   The plan was thwarted by vigorous opposition from residents of the quiet, leafy neighborhood, and by the landmark designation, which imposes limits on development.

17.   Those plans were thwarted after an Algerian national named Ahmed Ressam was caught by US authorities carrying explosives across the border.

18.   When entrepreneur Gary Trujillo and business owner Ray Arvizu offered to stage a Democrat Hispanic fund-raiser for Hull, some Hispanics tried to thwart their plans.

19.   Yigal Amir, an ultranationalist Jew who was convicted of murdering Rabin, said he had acted to thwart plans to transfer land to the Palestinians.

20.   A bad harvest in both those countries thwarted that plan.