Sentence examples for going to scupper from inspiring English sources

So provided it could actually be nested within and wasn't really pushing the boundaries of the inclusion or exclusion criteria, or the length of recruitment, provided then it wasn't going to scupper the trial it's nested in.

After almost 16 months abroad in Australia, south-east Asia and China, it looked as if our 24-year old son's return flight to the UK from Beijing last Monday was going to be scuppered by the volcanic ash cloud.

This might be a case of life imitating art - as Rankin points out, the site of one of the fictional Wolfman murders in London now bears a graffito saying Wolfman - or it might be whence Rankin got the name in the first place, but either way it rather spookily scuppers what was going to have been my point.

The principal, Christine Braddock, declined to comment on the affair, which may scupper their chances of going to university.

But given that the midfielder was left out of Sam Allardyce's one and only England squad, four months after a piece of misfortune scuppered his hopes of going to Euro 2016, he was probably telling the truth.

It was midnight and we were drunk and I wanted to tell her that night that I was going to marry her, but I didn't because I thought it might scupper my chances".

The move appeared to scupper any long-term hope she had of racing for the team.

"But of course, the purpose of corporations - which is what universities now are - is to scupper originality and dissent.Universities have gone from being culture-preserving institutions to being culture-destroying institutions.

It takes just one politically motivated or disgruntled postgraduate to scupper any attempts at secrecy, the reasoning goes.

Ever since British ministers have gone to Brussels to stop things, get opt-outs, cut budgets and scupper common projects.

Walus, had gone to Boksburg to in the hope that killing Hani would create nationwide anger and violence which would inevitably scupper ensure that this breakthrough did not happen.