Sentence examples for derail proceedings from inspiring English sources

Having already suffered through umpteen tries at Maxwell's Silver Hammer earlier in the month, Lennon appears determined to derail proceedings.

The US memo called the summit poorly conceived, inadequately managed and badly executed for allowing Venezuela and its leftist allies to derail proceedings.

Mr Justice Bean said the Italian prosecution had sent a note accusing Berlusconi of attempting to "delay or derail proceedings which have already been subject to tactical litigation of the most sophisticated form".

However, in reality this can be a far from simple process, with freeholders often doing their best to derail proceedings while residents face rising legal bills in the process – they have to pay the freeholder's legal costs as well as their own.

Didn't I? Trouble is with Holocaust films, there's never any gag reel on the DVDs …" When Gervais takes to the stage next year, then, he'll be on familiar ground, expected to dish up a little risqué humour without derailing proceedings.

There was real surprise that he was, indeed, there; other trials of dictators, over the years, have had endless opening gambits dominated by claims of illness — that the strong man is just too weak — which sometimes derail the proceedings entirely.

The committee, controlled by Democrats, also limited the ability of Republicans to derail the proceedings and allowed for the vote to be postponed if Democrats chose to do so.

The speech prompted the Czech Republic, which currently holds the presidency of the European Union, to walk out of the conference and left United Nations officials and diplomats fearful the fallout from that speech might derail the proceedings.

His remarks prompted the Czech Republic, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, to walk out of the conference, and they left United Nations officials and diplomats fearful that the fallout might derail conference proceedings.

Suddenly, there was no inherent limit on debate, and by the eighteen-thirties senators had begun taking advantage of this loophole, derailing the proceedings by getting up and talking until their voice, legs, or bladder gave out.

His loyalists have fought fiercely to derail the expulsion proceedings, arguing that the move is unconstitutional.