Sentence examples for derail operations from inspiring English sources

On Monday the government said such actions would not "derail" operations, leading to questions over when it was told about Nato's decision.

Sometimes you can understand why the government keeps secrets –because those secrets could endanger lives or derail military operations, or simply because they might be embarrassing.

He sent more than a dozen menacing e-mail messages to Daniel I. Videtto, the president of MicroPatent, a patent and trademarking firm, threatening to derail its operations unless he was paid $17 million.

I was working at Gawker Media when this quiz was posted, and it derailed all operations for about an hour.

Hamid Karzai again blamed Pakistan and it took another summit in Istanbul to ensure that the attack would not derail co-operation between the two countries.

"It was clear from the start in this operation that there could be a Qana, given how Hamas has chosen to fight, and it could seriously derail Israeli operational plans," Mr. Alpher said.

After winning the league rookie of the year award in 1995 with Detroit, he had his career derailed by five operations on his left ankle.

He said the small attack was usually all it took to derail an Iranian operation aimed at rooting out guerrillas inside Iran.

The searches enraged the local civilian population and derailed the counterinsurgency operations taking place at the time.

Would it derail the process?

Once again, covert operations are threatening to derail genuinely helpful, hopeful activities that might otherwise go a long way toward building international goodwill.