foil an attempt

For example, I saw you try to foil an attempt on my life that was not going to take place.

Are they adequate to foil an attempt to break in?

A high school girl foils an attempt on the president's life.

The army says it has foiled an attempt by the enemy to drive them from their position.

In December, the government said it had foiled an attempted military coup.

A couple hours later he returns to the Dragon, just in time to foil an attempted robbery.

After the four youths foil an attempt at a second heist, they join forces.

I may have foiled an attempt on their part to restock themselves with explosives and arms.

Eventually the heroes and their followers foil an attempted coup by an Islamic military force.

She once told the police she had foiled an attempt to kidnap her.

The Militia had foiled an attempt by the Terminators to cut the cables, but not much was made of this.

Russian forces helped foil an attempted hijacking of a Dutch-registered cargo ship laast week.

Spain says the arrest of a suspected Basque terror cell at the weekend may have foiled an attempted attack against the new regional government.

It's not every day a Manticoran officer foils an attempt to assassinate a friendly head of state-and on camera, no less.

Suspicious, he takes a shortcut and arrives in time to foil an attempt to garrotte and rob Kennedy.

Jamil foils an attempt to massacre Christians when he calls the Bedouins to his aid.

Police have foiled an attempt to smuggle 150 kilograms of cocaine to France from Dover.

A respected US-based internet security expert says he has foiled an attempt to frame him as a heroin dealer.

The Goodies had mistakenly foiled an attempt to put the real Crown Jewels back.

Not all that long ago, Lewis had foiled an attempt to kill the King, by a Neuman suicide bomber.

Last week, the armed forces command said that it had foiled an attempt last weekend by pro-Marcos troops to stage a "mutiny."

Eddie appears, foiling an attempt to make her place a bomb for the Styx, and takes her away from Highfield.

Security forces in Chad have announced they have foiled an attempted coup against the government which they claim had been in preparation for several months.

But before they even leave England, they encounter Sethos and foil an attempt to kidnap Amelia.

On March 1st, a Turkish newspaper reported that the country's intelligence service had foiled an attempt by Syrian agents to kidnap the colonel.