As next month's election nears, council members agreed to recount the closed-door maneuvering that had forced Mr. Kirkland from office and how Mr. Kirkland's resistance had thwarted the automatic succession of his loyal heir-apparent, Secretary Thomas R. Donahue, 67.

Pyrrhus agreed to the plan intending to win control of the Peloponnese for himself but unexpected strong resistance thwarted his assault on Sparta.

Stiff German resistance had thwarted Horrocks' plan to smash out from the Meuse-Escaut Canal on Sunday and link up with General Taylor's 101/ Airborne Division in Eindhoven in less than three hours.

Mere bloody resistance would thwart the scheme the Will has devised for us.

"I think influential resistance has thwarted the cell tower incursion," Mr. Coston said.

However stubborn resistance, and an Axis counter-attack, thwarted these intentions, and the Tobruk garrison had no chance to sortie out.

"Active, peaceful civic resistance can overthrow dictatorships, thwart invasions and frustrate empires," Mr. Morfin said, pointer in hand and charts behind him as he preached to three dozen students, professionals and workers in a party office in a middle-class neighborhood here.

Her cool resistance thwarted him, and for a moment he lost the boundary between anger and desire.