Object

• effort: Security is the utmost concern of prison officials, who are aware of some lawmakers ' attempts to stymie Internet efforts in prisons.

• growth: He said Warner believes that the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray would not stymie growth as many observers have been saying.

• development: The two-tier system is likely to cause confusion and may stymie development.

• reform: This cultural preoccupation with personal salvation stymies collective reform, and places an onerous burden on the individual.

• process: MD should not be pursued in a way that stimulates an expansion in nuclear arsenals and which stymies the strategic arms control process.

Modifying Another Word

• not: He said Warner believes that the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray would not stymie growth as many observers have been saying.

Subject

• bureaucracy: He says his company is quite pro-active with good staff and ideas but is stymied by the horrendously complicated bureaucracy of the railroad.

• problem: Comrade Bains taught us never to be stymied by the real problems of life but to face them with affection and march on.

Modifies a noun

• investigation: And he has stymies investigations and prosecutions in nearly more eos s to.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Meanwhile, the loo nearest to me is now refusing to flush, which rather stymied my attempt to p*ss on Grantham!

• constantly: They relied mainly on long lobs forward from Bobby Collins, but were constantly stymied by deep lying Southampton defense.

• again: By January 1999 consensus was again stymied, heralding three more years of unbroken famine.

Preposition: by

• lack: The usually competitive Contender of Mark Robinson was stymied by a lack of spinnaker in conditions where large sail plans were fastest.

• bureaucracy: He says his company is quite pro-active with good staff and ideas but is stymied by the horrendously complicated bureaucracy of the railroad.

• problem: Comrade Bains taught us never to be stymied by the real problems of life but to face them with affection and march on.