Sentence examples for going to torpedo from inspiring English sources

Gail: The moral I took out of it was that you had all these people struggling to do something constructive, while the bottom line was always that the House right wing was always going to torpedo anything that came of it.

I have this gory real estate discussion with clients too often and decided as long as a real estate investment isn't going to torpedo a financial plan, I don't fight it much.

"It's only four years, and I'm not going to torpedo a career for Trump," said one Department of Health and Human Services employee who has served in the government for a decade.

He added that if a measure refusing to finance the health law is not going to get passed, "How much blood are we going to leave on the floor over this?" The Republican divide on just how far they should go to torpedo Mr. Obama's signature domestic achievement is increasingly becoming a stand-in for the broader party dispute between purists and pragmatists.

By even less coincidence, Thieu went before a joint session of the South Vietnamese national assembly several days after Johnson's 31 October announcement and said that his government would be not going to Paris, effectively torpedoing the talks and dealing a blow to Humphrey's election chances.

I'd be frankly terrified at hearing about Stonehenge ("where demons dwell, where the banshees live, and they do live well") and I'd be even more worried about listening to David St. Hubbins sing about what heís going to do with his pink torpedo ("my baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo").

After exposing his ship to German torpedo fire ("That's going to kill an awful lot of chaps," he recalled thinking as he saw the metal streaking toward him), Mountbatten finally saw it sunk by German dive-bombers off the coast of Crete.

And the commander of the submarine had decided he was going to sink that destroyer by firing a nuclear torpedo at him.

And I hate to break it to you, but if a civilization is advanced enough to find us and blast us with photon torpedoes, no Will Smitheroicscomputer-virus heroics are probably going to save us, and we're all going to die.

Trump has until this Saturday, May 12, to decide whether he's going to preserve the Iran deal, negotiated under former U.S. president Barack Obama, or follow through on his stated desired to torpedo it.

That's where your hidden but compulsory contribution has been going: paying professional lobbyists to try to torpedo a campaign to protect the natural world.