Sentence examples for derail the efforts from inspiring English sources
These are big gaps which could yet derail the efforts already underway to reverse the economic downturn.
"Clearly this would derail the efforts in Paris to stay within two degrees' warming," said Sotiris Raptis, a shipping policy officer at Transport & Environment.
A lot of people were worried that just the fact that there were certain comments were coming from Washington that that would derail the efforts at the state level, and we haven't seen that happening.
In order to show himself to be a worthy guardian of this public trust, LaHood should make it clear that his Transportation Department will not tolerate pay-to-play practices, nor will the Department continue to derail the efforts of individual states to reform their own state governments.
If nothing else works, say that the return of Palestinians would "derail the effort to achieve peace".
The idea that their young leader could be targeted by prosecutors sent North Korean officials on a furious effort to derail the effort.
Some politicians are already grumbling that the sovereign wealth fund will divert assets that the economy desperately needs now, and they are threatening to derail the effort.
They said that if Mr. Levitt were seen as orchestrating a campaign for Mr. Biggs to head the oversight board, Mr. Pitt was determined to derail the effort.
A lawsuit by environmental justice groups threatened to derail the effort before it was resolved; a referendum ballot to freeze the plan backed by millions of dollars from out-of-state oil companies failed.
The 2010 census, in its final stages, has apparently been a success — something not thought possible just a couple years ago, when unsteady management, political interference and other problems threatened to derail the effort.
At the same time, the two government-chartered agencies that buy and resell most home mortgages are threatening to derail the effort by warning that they might not accept loans for homes that take advantage of the special financing.
