Sentence examples for derail attempts from inspiring English sources

Mr North said yesterday that the BNP wanted to "derail attempts by the Labour regime to link the BNP to right-wing violent extremists".

But he says forces are working hard to be more open, without losing that bond.In the meantime, the current row threatens to derail attempts to make the police more mixed.

Repercussions from Saudi Arabia's execution of the Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr have continued, with bitter recriminations and sectarian divisions threatening to derail attempts to end the wars in Syria and Yemen.

The government moved to derail attempts to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples in a last-ditch attempt to smooth the passage of a bill that would legalise same-sex marriage.

Earlier this week, Rajendra Pachauri, head of the IPCC, said a lack of such action from developed countries could derail attempts to seal a new global climate treaty at a crucial meeting in Copenhagen next year.

Debate over the sea wall has proved so divisive among the village's 1,800 residents – now spread out among eight temporary housing complexes – that some fear it will derail attempts to revive the village three years after the disaster wiped it from the map.

After all, Moody's and S.& P. have succeeded before in derailing attempts by legislators to bring accountability to asset-backed securities.

The party has led a furious chorus of opposition to the CIA's recent drone strikes which Mr Khan claims have derailed attempts to negotiate with the Pakistani Taliban.

Although the shares of most of the region's energy companies are listed, shareholder voting limits (5% per shareholder at MOL and 10% at PKN) and politicised managements have derailed attempts to merge.

The unprecedented events in Dallas remind us that it just takes one disturbed individual to commit a gross, tragic act that derails attempts at peaceful change and sows further division and strife.

As a former aide to Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the Senate, Miller played a key role in derailing attempts at immigration reform, including the 2010 DREAM Act and the Gang of Eight bill, a bipartisan attempt to reform the nation's immigration system that fizzled in 2013.