Sentence examples for derail something from inspiring English sources

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"You can't derail something when it has already left the station," Mr. Lee said Tuesday in a news conference in the state capital, Sacramento.

Pointing to persistent Republican efforts in Washington to defund or delay Obamacare as a federal government shutdown drags on, Lee said that "you can't derail something when it has already left the station.

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I have a plot in mind, but I want to keep it a secret just a while longer, especially since it will probably derail into something completely different, as most of the game has".

It's easy to go into your Inbox with plans to work on something specific, only to get derailed by something shiny.

This may take a decade or more to happen, if it does at all, and like all things these days, could get derailed by something that doesn't even yet exist.

It is difficult for me to say no because I get seduced and derailed by something I call the "shoulds".

The loss of Brian Cushing for the season deprives this team of a defensive leader, and though I hardly expect that to derail them altogether, something tells me they may be in for a wobble.

Indeed, whenever it looked as if Cuba was on the path to rejoining the world, Mr. Castro has done something to derail its progress.

O'Donnell says that "lots can go wrong" and there are "four way stops" and plenty of occasions to "derail" the bill but "something has changed" nevertheless.

Her unwilled memory of the book seems proof that what derailed them was something more than just a nervous breakdown or substance abuse.

There it is, confirmation that Harvey Weinstein derailed my career, something I suspected but was unsure.

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