Sentence examples similar to a derailed project from inspiring English sources
| A derailed effort to change money market funds.
Egypt is descending into chaos; it's "at the edge"; it's a derailed train with "its front wheels dangling" over a ravine.
He was soon joined by Ann and Cecil Parkinson – a derailed Thatcher protege, now the last survivor of the Falklands war cabinet.
(Poe moldered for years in an unmarked grave, after a derailed train smashed a headstone intended to mark the spot. In 1875, he was dug up and interred again).
"We are spending 1.3 billion dollars to retrofit the entire BART system so that we can have a robust transportation system, and it doesn't do us any good if every one of those tracks is plugged up with a derailed train," said John McPartland, vice president of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) district Board of Directors and a member of the state's Seismic Safety Committee.
From there, you take the train some 700 miles, a journey punctuated by stops in every small town and sometimes halted altogether by a derailed car or engine breakdown.
WASHINGTON — The threat of the release of highly radioactive spent fuel at a Japanese nuclear plant has revived a debate in the United States about how to manage such waste and has led to new recriminations over a derailed plan for a national repository in Nevada.
Like a derailed train, the marriage was hurtling toward its inevitable crash.
"Progressive" means that ALS is a derailed train, and with no cure, it just keeps going.
Social media posts showed workers attempting to bury a derailed train car before a full search and rescue operation had been completed, and the incident turned into a major embarrassment for the Chinese government and the now-defunct Railway Bureau.
