Exempel på stymie

• However, these goals were frequently stymied by the same strong historical consciousness the leaders were trying to utilize.

• Its radical potential is stymied, however, by an overly narrow focus on women's equal participation in public life.

• The issue of whether reduplicative words as a whole are trochaic, iambic, or even spondaic, has stymied their description for a long time.

• Several formidable hurdles still exist, however, that stymie research progress in the area.

• This process, which seems to be intuitively logical, is stymied by imprecise professional knowledge and underdeveloped technology for language analysis and inference.

• Attempts to quantify either the violence or mortality have been stymied by a lack of evidence.

• On the other hand, the standardized good seems to stymie the archaeologist; it does not enlist the skill set of identifying, classifying and comparing.

• For example, nationalisation of the telegraph system (in 1870) and the telephone system (in 1912) may have stymied efficiency by removing the pressure of competition.

• This is a vivid example of how efforts at reform are stymied by the persistent ministry efforts to maximize its interventionist role.

• Defeated, stymied by the bar across this gate, they all give up and retreat to their desks.

• A second pilgrimage was stymied en route and again resulted in prison sentences for pass violations and trespass.

• The implementation of participatory policies is often stymied by the limits of time and money, bureaucratic infighting and external pressures from powerful elite groups.

• Attempts to clarify the general rules are stymied by the need to avoid impairment of these contractual relations.

• The periods before and after this interlude saw far more political controversy which stymied other civic improvements.

• Surely flame wars over article content will stymie good intentions.