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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

We only found out this week that they had awarded the contract and instructed the contractor to start work on Monday. We have been trying to have proper consultation with LMDC. It has been thwarted at every turn.

James Lane

The department [DHS] and the President have always favored a risk-based approach. It's members of Congress who have thwarted those efforts.

Marc Short

He believed that Muslim countries had been thwarted over the years while others, like Israel and India, were allowed freer rein. From a Western perspective, he cheated in stealing designs, but from his point of view, he did what was necessary to achieve his goal for the country.

Talat Masood

Microsoft's original strategy was to protect its installed base against the onslaught of Java and maintain its Windows clientele. When they lost the court [preliminary injunction] it took their product strategy and thwarted it.

Tom Dwyer

Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Thankfully, law enforcement thwarted their successful efforts at theft.

David Boyd

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Claude Mckay

So wealth doesn't bother Fernando Ferrer. What bothers him is that his ambitions are being thwarted by Mayor Bloomberg's record, ... And unlike John Kerry and unlike [some of Ferrer's other rich supporters], Mayor Bloomberg earned his money. He wasn't born with it.

Bill Cunningham

That team is good. They could smell it. They're very strong in front of the net, and we had problems with their size all weekend. The one key difference was their size because we got out-strength a little bit. I thought we had five to eight scoring chances thwarted by them because they we just stronger than us.

Gregg Amore

I was surprised at how vastly different these ideas were from my ideas. I became aware that school boards are thwarted by the guidelines we are given. If you just follow the books, you might be doing a good job in the eyes of the writer, but not in the eyes of the voters who elected you.

Suanne Sines

Many authorities have attempted to protect the public from aspartame poisoning, only to be thwarted by intimidation, politics and bribes. They were trying to put a stop to what Dr. James Bowen told the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the mass poisoning of America and 100 countries of the world.

Betty Martini

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

Morihei Ueshiba