1.   Police had already thwarted attempts to bring two huge van bombs to Madrid, and to detonate a car bomb in Bilbao.

2.   The army thwarted the attempt at a coup.

3.   And he thwarted an attempt by grand jurors to launch an investigation on their own.

4.   After his second attempt was thwarted, Luckes was helped by beachcombers who came across him on Nauset Beach after he was bedeviled by headwinds.

5.   But circumstances thwarted her attempt to start over.

6.   But he has a record of evenhanded enforcement, and his allies managed to thwart earlier attempts to get rid of him by amending the Treasury spending bill.

7.   But so far regulators have thwarted his attempts.

8.   But that attempt was thwarted by a fellow Republican, County Comptroller Fred Parola, who criticized the contract as overly generous.

9.   But, until now, business, higher-education and civil-liberties groups have thwarted attempts to modernize it.

10.   First Dole was forced to shelve an immigration reform bill he had trumpeted to thwart Democratic attempts to use it as a vehicle to raise the minimum wage.