Sentence examples for derail the potential from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

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.

But Rees-Mogg's piece illustrates the insidious nature of the anti-environment economic ideology that has been so influential in the Tory party, and that has derailed the potential for meaningful environmental policy.

The report highlighted other risks that could derail the recovery, including the potential for renewed and prolonged drops in real estate prices, most notably in the United States and Britain; the sovereign debt crisis in some European countries; and possible abrupt reversals in government bond yields.

Still, the automatic cuts have the potential to derail the recovery.

If we leave it until then, however, the acrimony that might ensue has the potential to derail the talks.

This had the potential to derail the entire rescue package, calling into question the survival of the euro zone itself.

Despite the fact that the talks were intended to begin without preconditions, both sides have set out early demands that have the potential to derail the process.

Although the talks were intended to begin without preconditions, both sides have set out early demands which have the potential to derail the process.

This week's anniversary of Tiananmen Square is a reminder that internal conditions in China have the potential to derail the bilateral relationship.