Sentence examples for derailing plans from inspiring English sources
Its leaders excel at discreetly derailing plans they dislike.
Last year, vigorous opposition, by landowners, wealthy newcomers and old-time families, succeeded in derailing plans for another line that the state had wanted to build through the area.
But there is a new risk: politics in Indonesia may come to resemble those of another Asian nation, to which it is rarely compared Japan.Golkar's leaders excel at discreetly derailing plans they dislikeIn this section Golkar plots its comeback One country, how many systems?
The take from inheritance tax peaked in 2007 at £3.9bn, but has been falling in any case, thanks to Chancellor Alistair Darling's decision to raise the threshold shortly after Mr Osborne's announcement, widely credited with derailing plans by Gordon Brown for an early election in the autumn of 2007, the "election that never was".
Recent Sony outing The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has been labelled a failure after picking up "just" $709m at the global box office last year, such "meagre" pickings apparently derailing plans for a third instalment and pushing the studio towards prioritising supervillain spin-off The Sinister Six instead.
But Mr. Comito fears that the current N.H.L. impasse (over the league's attempt to impose a salary-cap system) could have a dampening effect on the area's future, potentially derailing plans for a grand redevelopment of the area recently proposed by the Islanders' owner, Charles Wang, whose heavy spending on players had brought about at least a limited revival on the ice.
Concerns over wildlife habitats derailed plans for a massive reservoir in East Texas.
Analysts said the purchase is unlikely to derail plans for Mr Chen's visit.
These "unknown unknowns" — often called "unk-unks" — are lurking in every project, just waiting to emerge, surprise and derail plans.
Hot enough to derail plans to reform a pension system whose eventual doom is otherwise a demographic certainty?
In 1992 and 1993, partisan squabbling derailed plans for a stimulus package as the recession came and went.
