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stymie | American Dictionary

stymie
verb[ T ]
us/ˈstɑɪ·mi/present participlestymieingus/ˈstɑɪ·mi·ɪŋ/
to prevent someone from achieving a goal or doing something that had been planned:
Students were stymied by the test.

Examples of stymie

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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.
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