1.   A diplomatic effort was foiled Friday when the UN Security Council overwhelmingly defeated a Russian resolution demanding an immediate halt to the airstrikes.

2.   But they also discuss how they manipulated the system over the years and how it foiled their efforts at sobriety.

3.   Clearing mines is made even more hazardous by booby traps set to foil those efforts.

4.   Downed power lines from the crash and rain foiled efforts to catch the men.

5.   Earlier this year, the West Virginia Legislature foiled the efforts of Gov. Cecil H. Underwood, a Republican, to tax snuff and chewing tobacco.

6.   Her efforts are foiled in a hundred tricky, ultimately humane ways.

7.   Russia announced in October that it had foiled an effort to transfer missile technology from a factory in Samara, a Volga River city and an aerospace center.

8.   Their efforts were temporarily foiled when the parking lot was resurfaced, but the group recently began restriping the lot, tackling the job on a sultry Saturday morning.

9.   Blizzard conditions and driving snow foiled search efforts for at least two days after he went missing.

10.   But government analysts also said community efforts are being foiled by tobacco advertising that hooks young smokers.