Sentence examples for designed to scuttle from inspiring English sources

Hanan Ashrawi, a prominent independent Palestinian politician, said: "Israeli deliberate measures at expanding settlement activities, at carrying out further building of illegal settlements in and around Jerusalem – all these are designed to scuttle all American efforts at trying to relaunch any kind of talks be they direct or indirect, proximity or long-distance".

Russia, Damascus' most powerful ally, stepped up its criticism of anti-Assad militias, condemning what it called "barbarous" attacks designed to scuttle the two-week-old truce engineered by U.N.-Arab League mediator Kofi Annan.

Republic of Korea Marines directed artillery fire from the shore and at 0600 with the trawler apparently abandoned, a Navy demolitions expert from Walker boarded the trawler and defused 2,000 pounds of TNT charges that were designed to scuttle the craft.

But newly released Department of Justice (DOJ) documents show that the White House has actually worked aggressively behind the scenes to scuttle congressional reforms designed to give the public better access to information possessed by the federal government.

When Arkus-Duntov said he would not accept the split-window design, Mitchell threatened to use his connections to scuttle Arkus-Duntov's plan for an independent rear suspension on the new car.

But they decided to relocate when the rumors here threatened to scuttle the entire project.

Their opposition was enough to scuttle the proposal.

Some couples reacted with alarm, and tried to scuttle away.

Ralcorp already had plenty of tools to scuttle a deal.

Mueller attempts to scuttle the vessel, and it becomes incapacitated.

"There's always people trying to scuttle the bar cars.