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Let the record show Democrats won the White House in 2020 even though Clinton bobbed back up in 2017 and, for a short while, thwarted the party’s fervent desire to “turn the page.”

Wendy thwarts that in accordance with the third trope: the hero returning to save someone weaker than she is.

There had been concerns that the government was going to thwart the will of parliament.

The RAF operation comes 85 years after the Battle of Britain, when Polish pilots fought alongside the RAF to thwart sustained German air attacks in Britain's skies during World War Two.

She is resentful of Blundy, thwarted in her career, simmering with resentment.