Sentence examples for derailed like from inspiring English sources

"My life had been derailed like one of the commuter trains I report on each morning," Ms. Shupak wrote in a recent column.

The floor debate on the commission, assuming it is not derailed like so many other issues in these final days, could be interesting.

I remember when the Konpa band Scorpio Fever accused its rival band, D.P. Express, of "derailing" like a train.

Look a bit deeper and watch them derail like train wrecks.

Military tensions with Pakistan will distract India from economic headway and can derail the likes of "India Shining" projects.

I admit I was slightly derailed by the Facebook likes of authors with misspelled names.

Analysts seemed prepared to give Gucci's plans and promises a chance, while hoping that no unexpected event derailed them, like the combination of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Iraq war and SARS that Mr. De Sole once called "the perfect storm".

Russia has come close to accession several times, only to have the process derailed by geopolitical shocks, like its 2008 war with Georgia, or by surprise announcements, like Russia's declaration that it would join only as part of a trade union with Belarus and Kazakhstan.

"Women are, in fact, fierce in their ambition, but they find that they're actually derailed by other things, like they don't have a sponsor in their life that helps them go for it".

We are repeatedly told that with Barack Obama still trailing by double digits in most polls, the only way Mrs. Clinton could lose her tight hold on the nomination and, presumably, the White House would be if she were bruised in Iowa (where both John Edwards and Senator Obama remain competitive) or derailed by unforeseeable events like a scandal or a domestic terror attack.

Accompanying this "origin myth" is a fictive narrative that holds that the historic, continuing productive monochromatic capitalist engine was derailed by class traitors like Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.