Sentence examples for derail potential from inspiring English sources

A senior administration official sought to contain any ripple effects from the episode last week, noting that it should not be viewed as a precursor to a broader military confrontation with Iran and that it should not derail potential diplomatic contacts between the two countries over the nuclear program.

Despite reports last week that a key Xstrata shareholder might derail the potential $90 billion takeover by Vale, Xstrata said Monday that talks with Rio Doce were "ongoing".

Hamas's large following and its ability to carry out bombings consistently gave it the ability to disrupt, if not derail, the potential compromises it opposed.

Italy has filed a document with the European Commission that accuses the French government of flouting European law by engineering a merger between Gaz de France and Suez in order to derail a potential bid for Suez by Enel of Italy.

Though Mr. Strahan knew he was a few years from retirement, he said he didn't have time to worry that the scandal could derail a potential television career.

The momentum behind the series is evident in the deep strategizing going on inside Fox to guarantee that the show has a strong start, and the equally deep strategizing inside rival networks about how to derail this potential prime-time express train.

The Federal Trade Commission has signed off on the Nokia-Microsoft deal, meaning that there is little if anything left that could derail the potential marriage of Microsoft's money and Nokia's hardware business.

On Wednesday, da Silva and his lawyers will return to court to appeal his July conviction on charges of political corruption ― a case that threatens to derail his potential candidacy in elections later this year.

When NATO sought to derail another potential Balkan genocide by way of its 1999 air bombing campaign against Serbia, Krauthammer denounced the move as mere wide-eyed liberal amateurism on the part of Clinton, arguing that air strikes would be insufficient to force Milosevic out of Kosovo.

As Corn points out:  "A 'confidential' April 17 , 2009 cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department--one of the 251,287 cables obtained by WikiLeaks--details how the Obama administration, working with Republicans, leaned on Spain to derail this potential prosecution".

Those concerns derailed a potential bid by SAB for Bass Brewers, later acquired by Interbrew.