frustrar
thwart ; scupper ; cripple ; frustrate ; baffle ; stymie ; foil ; defeat ; forestall ; spoil ; hamstring ; exasperate ; cast + a blight on ; blight.
A public library's design can go far in either reinforcing or thwarting the intimacy of reading and in determining its success - functionally, aesthetically and financially.
This arrangement could definitely help solve the librarian's problems, unless unexpected events scupper it.
The objection to it seems to be that by reading rubbish children cripple their own imaginative, linguistic or moral powers.
The psychologist Abraham H Maslow has warned of 'true psychopathological effects when the cognitive needs are frustrated'.
As the domain expands, the problem of rule formalisation may even baffle a human expert.
So, in a lot of cases the ability to take advantage of technologically sophisticated younger faculty is stymied by these conflicting interests.
The author considers the incidence of arson in US libraries and some ways of foiling arsonists through constant vigilance and observation of library users.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of software programs intended to defeat some of these sabotage actions.
In order to forestall such an event, some libraries in Britain were stung into action by the publication of an Act of Parliament which totally ignored public libraries.
But if set-off did occur and threatened to set back and spoil subsequent impressions of the first forme, the tympan cloth could be rubbed over with lye to clean it.
Instead, the proposed regulations would hamstring public access.
Radical intellectuals often seem exasperated by what appears as excessive attention paid to conceptualization.
Rampant commercialisation of publishing is casting a blight on literature.
The global outbreak of swine flu has spread fear through the travel sector, blighting any green shoots of recovery from the financial crisis.
frustrar el esfuerzo
frustrate + effort
Users who experience these situations might get the idea that librarians stay awake nights dreaming up ways to frustrate their efforts to find material in the library.
frustrar las esperanzas
shatter + Posesivo + hopes
dampen + Posesivo + hopes
dash + Posesivo + hopes
The author gives an insider's perspective on what it feels like to be an Arab since the groundshaking events of 1967 when Arab hopes were unexpectedly shattered by the outcome of the Arab Israeli war.
The 51-year-old parted ways with her third husband in 2004 but she is refusing to let the break-ups dampen her hopes of finding true love.
It was hoped that this meeting would bring about reinstatement of the library funds which were so massively cut a year ago; these hopes were soon dashed.
frustrarse
become + frustrated
run into + the sand(s)
get + frustrated
Management became frustrated with the lack of progress being made and prematurely cancelled the project.
The king must have then realised, if he had not already done so, that his efforts to secure an annulment from the pope had run into the sand.
He's the type of person who gets frustrated and makes a big deal about taking the wrong exit on the freeway or has a short fuse when something doesn't get done exactly the way he wants it.
frustrar un esfuerzo
thwart + effort
High winds and choppy seas have thwarted the efforts to contain the oil spill seeping into the fishing grounds.