1.   But troops loyal to the general foiled the attempt and he emerged with his customary grin and triumphal air-punching.

2.   The escape attempt was foiled by police guards.

3.   Police have foiled an attempt to smuggle a bomb into Belfast airport.

4.   The voles are foiling all attempts to landscape the banks of the motorway.

5.   Although pine sap, bird mess and acid rain do their best to destroy her glossy finish, we foil their attempts with our special beauty treatment.

6.   A transposed number in a birthdate or an abbreviated name in a database of criminal records would foil any attempt to find a match among registered voters.

7.   But the typeface foiled any attempt to list presidential candidates on a one-page ballot.

8.   But what can aerospace engineers do to foil future attempts to turn airliners into kamikaze guided missiles?

9.   Cleaning has to be the first stage in the restoration, says Pantano, because dirt will foil any attempts at gluing or patching.

10.   For the second consecutive day, he had foiled attempts to get him to speak on the matter again.