Some commentators are angry that such a small tribe has been able to derail a major industrial project.
"No murderer will be able to derail a peace process that has the support of the vast majority of the people of Northern Ireland," Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.
All sorts of questions remain: will the Liberal Democrats be able to derail it from moving into, and through, the wash-up?
"They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades," said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. and an author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper.
The spending bill faces opposition from many conservative Republicans, but they are unlikely to be able to derail the legislation given its likely support among Democrats and more moderate Republicans.
Mr. Romney's advisers hope the upshot of the grass-roots anger and a divided delegate picture is that they will be able to derail at least temporarily the rush to crown Mr. McCain as the nominee.
The Senate is evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, so it is unclear whether Republicans will be able to derail Mr. Santiago's nomination or compel Mr. Cipel to appear.
President Obama has not yet named his choice to succeed Justice David H. Souter, but several Republicans acknowledge that it is unlikely they will be able to derail the nomination absent some startling revelation about the candidate.
For many it won't be easy to serve under our soon-to-be President Trump, but your fellow citizens would be forever grateful if you were able to derail even one unethical proposal or to block one wacky idea from coming to fruition, or to stop just one late-night, vengeful tweet from being transmitted.
Mr. Rosselli was able to derail part of that plan when his allies, as well as reporters at The Los Angeles Times, dug up information that Mr. Freeman had spent $10,000 in union money at a cigar lounge and hundreds of thousands of dollars more for his mother-in-law's day care agency and his wife's video company.
