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And so right now, you probably have the tools to thwart many kinds of government surveillance already on your phones and already in your pockets, you just might not realize how strong and how secure those tools are, or how weak the other ways you've used to communicate really are.
And my belief is that if we create sufficiently rich and vibrant bridging communities, we can thwart the urge for people to burrow into the security of a homogenous bonding community defending themselves against the other.
Octavia’s been after it for years, but try as she might, the defenses thwart her.
Basically, a couple of scientists working out of a bio-dome communicate with highly intelligent ants (the most intelligent actors in this film) in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination.
Set in a post apocalyptic future, the new highlander is an effeminate little twerp named Quentin MacLeod, who is being mentored by a new Ramirez while his little sister tags along on their quest to thwart an evil immortal overlord.
As she becomes Charly again, we're torn: we certainly want Charly to thwart the bad guys, and all that; but we don't want her to lose touch with Samantha in order to do so - even though we like Charly, too.
Meanwhile, the "opponent" martial arts school plans & scheme to thwart our hero, utilizing dirty tactics to try to throw him off track & try to prevent him from participating in the tournament.
However, blackouts, delirium, and rejection threaten to thwart his efforts.
The cartoon's focus is on Scooby and Shaggy who inherits a large sum of money and use that money to thwart world conquest plans from a mad scientist and his goons.
Noah bumbles along, aided in his role by the ex-dictator's mistress, as they attempt to thwart the plans of Raul Julia.
To thwart that, the FBI tries to bust one of the mafia lords.
She appeals for help with her man, but things go awry when manservant Malcomb tries to thwart the romance because he is in desperate love with Winnie.
This is a story about a man who discovers an evil plot and risks everything to thwart the scheme.
Jerry, of course, must thwart Tom's efforts to charm-in ways that provide lots of laughs.
Two completely unlikely and opposite men end up having to help each other to thwart the bad guys.
The film is the result of the TV show Project Green Light, but don't let that thwart you.
Like SWINGSHIFT Cinderella, however, the old lady (grandma in this case) is dead set on catching the wolf herself and does everything she can do to thwart the wolf from capturing Red.
The works of Howard Phillip Lovecraft continue to thwart film makers.
But coalition rule can also often mean governance of the lowest common denominator, as resistance by any of the government’s significant members to a policy can delay or even thwart it.
Parallel to the Sochi Olympics, another contest is already underway between the terrorists who seek to disrupt the games, or at least mar the atmosphere surrounding them, and the forces of the Russian state, whose task is to thwart the terrorists’ plans.
Yet other regional powers have done little to develop a coordinated strategy to thwart China’s hegemonic plans.
But they do reflect the agenda of those seeking to fan Buddhist resentment in order to thwart Myanmar’s democratic transition.
Who bailed out the banks, pumped in the liquidity, engaged in fiscal stimulus, and provided the safety nets for the unemployed to thwart an escalating catastrophe?
And it has gone out of its way to thwart Western efforts to address major international challenges, most prominently the Syrian civil war.
Whatever route is taken, the great question today concerns the enigma that is Bibi Netanyahu, a would-be Churchill who believes that his mission is to thwart the designs of Iran’s evil new Shia empire, something which requires the goodwill of the international community, particularly of the Obama administration.
That pace, however, seems too fast for President Khatami’s domestic foes, who are working hard to thwart any opening, as the arrest last week of a key Khatami supporter Teheran’s mayor (and his release following street protests by his supporters), suggests.
These pleas have come, frustratingly, as military funding to thwart bio-attacks, consciously mounted by human actors, has remained robust.
Hamas, the Palestinian Authority’s rival in Gaza, will undoubtedly try to thwart Abbas’s effort.
But, by adopting such a stance, they thwart their own envoy and may well stimulate the violence they profess to abhor.
On the contrary, the US is continuing to thwart European efforts gradually to establish a rule-based international order.
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