Iran might find an Aegean island a handy way of foiling NATO's planned missile-defence shield.
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Russian forces have mounted numerous security operations and reported foiling intended attacks by Islamist militants.
On another station, the man finds himself foiling a gang of jewel thieves.
Since speed is of the essence in foiling kidnaps, this made police more effective and kidnapping riskier for its perpetrators.
Thomas Sowell and others have done a brilliant job in foiling that.
Even by the standards of post-Soviet politics, though, the recent foiling of a supposed plot to assassinate Putin stands out for being bizarre.
In October 2008, its leaders leapt to action, foiling the impact of the global financial crisis with a 4 trillion RMB fiscal stimulus package.
There are Websites dedicated to reviling him, law firms focused on foiling him and former friends who sputter at the mention of his name.
But visitors can seek reassurance in the fact that Britain's police and intelligence officials have been successful since then in foiling attacks on the capital.
Earlier this year, several soldiers who lost their lives while foiling suicide attacks in Kabul were honoured and their families received land and money in compensation.
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If you're honest with your boss, you don't have to worry about a slip of the tongue or an unexpected run-in with the boss foiling your alibi.
While foiling tax cheats and identity thieves are certainly in the public interest, there is another side to the story, and it is the story of my clients who have experienced it.
After foiling the jihadist plot to down US-bound British passenger aircraft last summer, MI5 director Eliza Manningham-Buller claimed that there are some 1, 600 British Muslims actively involved in plotting attacks against Britain.
The information is understood to have been obtained as part of an inquiry into possible leaks, after the news agency last year ran a story about the CIA foiling a Yemeni bomb plot.
They may even be aware that the rite of burning an effigy on November 5th (a tradition admittedly under threat from political correctness and the health-and-safety police) celebrates the foiling of a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
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