Sentence examples for from torpedoing from inspiring English sources

I'm pretty sure the White House agreed to back Lincoln in the first place for the same reason it backed Specter in Pennsylvania: to keep them from torpedoing the health-care bill, and with it the Obama Presidency.

All week, the Via was parked nose-out in the driveway, the rationale being to dodge any neighborhood ordinance designed to prevent the Cousin Eddies of the world from torpedoing local property values with a permanently stationed 1977 Chalet Festiva Supremo.

These results demonstrate the importance of portfolio management to prevent a single stock from torpedoing the whole portfolio.

Especially in the present age, where communications and data are regularly generated, stored and transmitted electronically -- with every one of us being one auto-complete away from torpedoing a case through an error like the one here -- such disclosures are actually surprisingly common.

He routinely ticks off the monumental damage that the GOP Senators and House reps have done or tried to do or, if given the chance again, will do from torpedoing climate control measures, to eviscerating Social Security, and the Affordable Care Act, to giving away the company store in tax breaks to billionaires and Wall Street.

Revenues also did better than company guidance owing mostly to high-end notebooks, far from torpedoed by the sharp market gains for netbook PCs of the past year or the onset of smartphones with computer-like features.

At 10 10 Lieutenant Commander Gerard Broadmead Roope, fired five torpedoes from one mounting at a range of 800 m, but all missed because Captain Hellmuth Heye had kept Hippers bow pointed at Glowworm throughout the battle to minimize his risk from torpedoes.

Protection from torpedo boat attacks was provided by fourteen 47 mm three-pounder Hotchkiss guns and ten 47-millimetre 2.5-pounder Hotchkiss guns.

Surface Mine Countermeasures (SMCM): Mine-detecting UUV, launched from torpedo tubes.

Miller, C. Open-state substructure of single chloride channels from Torpedo electroplax.

We reduced purified receptor from Torpedo californica electric tissue and affinity alkylated it with 4- N-maleimido)benzyltri[3H]methylammonium iodide.