Sentence examples for derailed action from inspiring English sources

The blame game derailed action on both sides.

As reported in yesterday's Guardian, ExxonMobil is one of the US oil companies funding lobby groups that are targeting Britain to derail action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

It's been used hundreds of times since 2006 by Senate Republicans to derail action on important bills and judicial appointments.

A group called 'Bring Ohio Back' launched an ad on YouTube this week criticizing the "Stone Age 5" group of Ohio GOP representatives working to derail action on clean energy and climate legislation.

Some of the nation's most high-profile evangelical leaders, however, have tried to derail such action.

Finally, a comic-book adaptation comes along that completely honours the source material, doesn't derail the action with pointless backstory and brutally sticks to its (rapid-firing) guns to the last frame – and what do we do?

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest blasted the action as "embarrassing" to Congress and said lawmakers "are going to have to answer their own conscience and their constituents as they account for their actions today". A cadre of blue-chip lobby shops had been paid top dollar by the Saudi government to try to derail the action.

The school's explanation for the disappointing results is that its ambitions were derailed by "the actions of a small, critical group of staff" who have now left.

Among the class actions derailed over the years by arbitration was a case brought by Citigroup customers who accused the bank of tricking them into insurance that they were never eligible to use.

Efforts by a majority of member states to curb aggressive tax planning and to rein in predatory tax policies were regularly delayed, diluted or derailed by the actions of a few of the EU's smallest members, frequently led by Luxembourg.

But this can set up the same situation as the American Congress faces, where the ruling party can have its agenda derailed by the actions of a small faction (see: Blue Dog Democrat, for instance).