stymie

That legislative fix, effective through 2036, would in effect circumvent years of legal challenges by environmental groups seeking to stymie drilling.

The story originally satirized materialistic baby boomers stymied by shifting gender roles.

By the early 2000s, Paramount had developed a reputation for seeking profitability through conservative fiscal decisions that stymied the studio from taking big swings with its films.

A French plan to develop the site was initially stymied by the slump in world uranium demand after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.

Surely you’ll fall over backward when I tell you that funding shortages, politics, evolving priorities, lack of coordination, haphazard and disjointed planning, and less than stellar leadership have stymied progress on many fronts.