Delay and Foil

operation	delay operation	foil operation
guy	delay guy	foil guy
part	delay part	foil part
someone	delay someone	foil someone
Other words: death, time, plan, bad, invasion, crime, victory, mission, plans, attacks, enemies.

Both words in one sentence

Jarod's plots always seem to leave him with someone in his debt that will delay or foil Miss Parker and the rest of the Centre hunters at the end of the episode.

Source: Laser-Guided Karma
In Roald Dahl's The Witches a greedy second banana named Bruno, and the protagonist are force fed "Formula 86 delay action mouse maker" by the witches, and subsequently forced to foil their plot as tiny field mice.

Source: Animorphism
Note that he's not just good at "merely" surviving the adventure like a mangled heap of bones, but is quite capable of surviving mostly unharmed while somehow managing to delay or disrupt the Evil Plan enough to foil the bad guy.

Source: Action Survivor