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43 examples of Stymie in a sentence

When they get really happy about this, we stymie them.
And when these concepts underlie our teaching and what we think about the world, then we have a problem, because we stymie support for everything.
Expanding education in countries where institutional failure, poor governance, and macro-economic mismanagement stymie investment is a prescription for low productivity and high unemployment.
They still insist that tariffs are undesirable in general, but they now concede that such measures could be appropriate and useful to stymie China’s rise.
In other words, while the laws stymie one supply channel, they do not shut down the pipeline – and they do nothing to curb demand.
While officials feign compliance with Xi’s economic-reform agenda, they will seek any opportunity to stymie it.
But its other intention was probably to stymie American efforts to adopt new United Nations sanctions on Iran.
Instead of working together to help their American ally confront the challenges posed by a rising China and the North Korean nuclear threat, South Korea and Japan have allowed their rancor to stymie effective action.
That means economic diversification, which can be achieved only by reducing the size of government and removing the obstacles that stymie the private sector.
In fact, the problem is so intractable that conspiracy-minded Brexiteers now suspect EU negotiators of using it to delay or stymie Buccaneer Britannia’s glorious departure.
While many girls possess leadership qualities, social, political, and economic barriers stymie their potential.
According to this view, US and Saudi intervention is meant to stymie the Islamic Republic’s geopolitical ambitions.
Done mechanically, by ideology, they increase poverty and inequality, and stymie growth.
This policy can stymie rural development and diminish poverty alleviation.
Such leadership can stymie politically motivated challenges to the referendum’s result and preempt a period of uncertainty that increases tensions on the ground.
Nevertheless, despite the new Congress’s overwhelmingly pro-Israel cast, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should not assume that the Republicans will stymie Obama if he pushes resolutely for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
In the name of reducing US inequality, presidential candidates in both parties would stymie the aspirations of hundreds of millions of desperately poor people in the developing world to join the middle class.
It is not a lack of political ability which will stymie them, but rather a lack of political power.
While some variation in attitudes towards markets and enterprise did exist, the biggest differences were situational, rather than attitudinal: people in some countries had lower expectations of success and thought that government regulations would stymie their activities.
Hamas has the power to stymie the vote and has indicated that it would do so.
Aside from the retreat of democracy in Russia, China – now the world’s oldest autocracy – is demonstrating that when authoritarianism is entrenched, a marketplace of goods and services can stymie the marketplace of political ideas.
Regulatory technocracies do the opposite: by diluting accountability and privileging collective decisions, they stymie the individual talent that populate them.
Europeans were appalled at how the last-minute injection of finicky points about bank regulation could stymie what was supposed to be a breakthrough agreement on the regulation of EU countries’ budgets.
Let us hope that his administration does not stymie economic recovery and pull Latin America back into recession – just when it thought it had gotten out.
Suppose further that their central banks, while unwilling to extend themselves further in unconventional monetary policy, are also unwilling to stymie elected governments’ policies by offsetting their efforts to stimulate their economies.
And the global food and financial crises threaten to stymie recent progress.
Call one the "protection" pathology, in which governments stymie progress by reducing access to foreign investment and technology.
The idea that a future “inflation tax” can stymie the ability of money finance to stimulate aggregate nominal demand is a logical absurdity.
Yet this cooperation has failed to stymie the fusion of terrorist and criminal activity.
If anything, China has proven that a country can blend control, coercion, and patronage to stymie the Internet’s politically liberalizing elements.