Exempel på foiled

• When the degree of natural variation turned out to be much greater than expected, we were foiled.

• Any attempts to introduce interesting new methods of assessment and testing were foiled by limitations in the memory size and processing speed of the computers.

• In the field of architecture where advancement through research is foiled by minuscule sponsorship, progress is also minuscule.

• But the committee's efforts were foiled by a struggle between private and public interests that would plague burial reform throughout most of the nineteenth century.

• If our view is ambition-sensitive, we need to establish whether and why we care particularly about ambitions foiled by disability compared with other obstacles to opportunity, such as involuntary unemployment.

• Fraud will not be foiled, however, unless witnesses certify in front of a lawyer or are contacted before an advance directive is acted on.

• He has, one might suppose, been foiled by her action.

• We all know that the one question can easily be foiled.

• Many attacks have been foiled by the courage and expertise of the security forces.

• Clearly, we receive evidence from time to time that risks are foiled by the early action that is now taken and the vigilance that exists.

• Prompt and determined action by the four supervising officers foiled this attempt and the prisoners were removed to the cells.

• They were foiled in their attempt to do anything under the basic treaties, so they invented a new mechanism.

• Roughly one-third of 200 hijack attempts in the last ten years have been foiled.

• However, the technology was foiled when the claimants filled their bare fields with plastic olive trees.

• The lecture was concluded with an attack on the platform which was foiled by the police.