Sentence examples for delay or scupper from inspiring English sources

It is hard for any map to do much about this.Critics of the reform hope that the anxiety it is provoking in all three parties will be enough to delay or scupper it.

Many, frustrated that eight days of strike action between January and May had failed to force Hunt to lift his threat of imposition, hoped that the lawsuit might delay or even scupper Hunt's plans.

Whether this merely delays reforms until the autumn or scuppers them altogether remains to be seen.In this section What now for Obamacare?

No delay or dallying Bang!

propagation delay or ToA.

Delay or move Obama's speech?

The Marine Corps denies any delay or wrongdoing.

The few liberal measures the ruling coalition has attempted have mostly been compromised or scuppered by populist opposition, especially from the Communist parties who support it in Parliament.

(Hence, you're stuck raising taxes on the middle class, or scuppering the entire government, or both).

Britain's first planned new nuclear plant for over 25 years at Hinkley Point in Somerset is backed by government but faces all sorts of other hurdles such as uncertain equity investors, legal challenges and ever-increasing costs and delays, which could scupper it yet.

The new Apple TV will become available in October, according to the reports, after delays that scuppered Apple's plans to launch it in June.