1605 Gunpowder Plot failed in England.

On Monday, the Israeli Defense Forces thwarted a planned suicide bombing.

The expectations of extremists among advocates and opponents of carbon pricing have been disappointed in equal measure.

Otherwise, India s youth, their hopes and ambitions frustrated, could decide to take matters into their own hands.

And I was basically pretty disappointed to see that they had chosen to show the photo we'd already seen a million times, which was basically the moment of impact.

The collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble was a major factor, as it frustrated commercial development in Tokyo generally.

The Madrid, London, and Bali attacks, as well as several thwarted operations in the United States and Britain, were all characterized by their dispersed organization.

In November, China foiled ASEAN members efforts to create a multilateral forum and an agreed code of conduct to govern economic and security activity in the South China Sea.

Hopes for a development round in world trade opening up opportunities for developing countries to grow and reduce poverty now seem dashed.

The prospects for such cooperation had often been thwarted, however, by attempts to distinguish between good and bad terrorists, to grant terrorists asylum in contravention of the principle of extradite or prosecute , or to refuse to recognize them as human rights offenders.

These claims are said to arise from the regular change of cells and the restrictions referred to in paragraph 2.2, which are said to have thwarted his attempts to have his case reviewed.

Turkey s attempt to mediate between the major Western powers and Iran concerning the Islamic Republic s uranium stockpile went unappreciated in the West indeed, the United States scuttled the effort just as it seemed to be bearing fruit.

The Niger's difficult economic situation was the result of many factors, notably the prolonged period of political instability that had led to the coup d'état of 1999 and the subsequent humanitarian crisis, which had frustrated the attempts of the newly elected democratic Government to focus on reconstruction efforts.

It went hand in hand with an aggressive foreign policy and a determined nuclear strategy of uranium enrichment that repeatedly frustrated EU negotiators and forced world leaders to fall into line behind America s crippling sanctions regime.

Radical proposals that would help restore a more resilient system, offered by the likes of Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King, have been smothered by noisy discussion of measures that do nothing to address modern banking s fundamental defects.

Meanwhile, Turkey faces a direct threat from the Islamic State, exemplified by the twin suicide bombings that killed more than 100 people in Ankara last month. Turkish authorities have since foiled another attack, planned for the same day as those in Paris.

Other major plots thwarted elsewhere in the world appear to have been close to execution when discovered and tend to support the oft repeated view of professional counter terrorism operatives that it is only a matter of time before another major attack occurs.