1.   But remoteness from the nearest exchange thwarted its efforts.

2.   Congressional Republicans have made clear their intention to thwart these efforts.

3.   It is expected to say that tobacco companies have deliberately thwarted international efforts to control the sale of cigarettes.

4.   He issued a stern warning that western allies could intervene militarily if fighting resumes and humanitarian relief efforts are thwarted.

5.   AMFA officials, who began the drive in April, say Delta lifted pay in an attempt to thwart their efforts.

6.   And he said that a court order requiring single cells for inmates and barring doubling up thwarted his efforts to manage state prisons.

7.   And they had mixed success in trying to thwart efforts to ban smoking on airline flights, trains, at work and in public places.

8.   As a senator, John D. Ashcroft was a friend of civil libertarians, a conservative Missouri Republican working to thwart government efforts to peek into private e-mail communications.

9.   After this effort was thwarted by the state Supreme Court, some Republican legislators even floated the possibility of bringing impeachment proceedings against some of the justices.

10.   But can anyone help Robert Porter, whose poetic efforts have been thwarted by uncertainty over the pronunciation of Sebastopol, his hometown.