Sentence examples for effort to derail from inspiring English sources

"This is wrong," Perkins says he argued in a final effort to derail the vote.

He said the killings were an effort to derail the peace efforts begun by his government.

Others said they would fight any effort to derail the election.

States with big coal interests, notably Wyoming, Kentucky and West Virginia, are set to lead the effort to derail them.

At a crucial point, Mugabe has Mwonzora jailed on trumped-up charges in an effort to derail the process.

Expecting the suit, the foundation itself filed suit last week in an effort to derail Lorillard's legal strategy.

Many Yemenis concluded that the fighting was a deliberate effort to derail the talks by factional leaders who are still angling for a greater share of power.

The latest is an effort to derail new regulations requiring large health warnings on cigarette packages by making baseless First Amendment claims.

And the French government has been ratcheting up the pressure on state-backed SNCF in an effort to derail the Siemens deal.

Such audits and studies might seem to be mere annoyances, but as part of a larger effort to derail the consumer agency, they are dangerous steps.

In the end, it didn't matter what the bishops did, because by a crushing majority (390 votes to 148), the Lords rejected the effort to derail the proposal.