The word 'nobble' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to mean to manipulate a person or situation in order to gain an advantage, usually in an unethical or illegal way. For example: "He was accused of trying to nobble the competition by offering the referees a bribe."
Better late than never, José Mourinho has finally accepted it was disingenuous to allege there was a campaign among the Premier League's higher authorities to nobble Chelsea's title challenge through the kind of refereeing mistakes that invariably happen to every club over the course of the season.
It must be tempting to nobble a rival.That no other state-run media outlets carried stories on Baidu suggests this is not a government-orchestrated campaign against the company or the internet more generally.
His main fear is that the fledgling technology could have its wings clipped by traditional manufacturers, who will doubtless view it as a threat to their livelihoods, and do all in their powers to nobble it.
BC now has the lowest personal income tax rate in Canada for those earning up to C$119,000 and is tied with Alberta and New Brunswick for the lowest corporate rates.Mary Polak, the provincial environment minister, acknowledges that the carbon-tax rate has been frozen for the next five years so as not to nobble BC's industry, which must compete with rivals elsewhere that face no such levy.
The documents suggest that the spies lean on firms to build "back doors" into their products, infiltrate those companies with their own employees, and work to nobble cryptographic standards.Jolted, and feeling jilted, cryptographers have begun checking their own tools.
The government is now trying to nobble the central bank.Magyar boo sucksHungarian voters seem unfazed by this, and outside criticism has been muted too.
A land commission that was meant to resolve disputes between ethnic groups and the competing claims of hundreds of thousands of returning war refugees has been nobbled by the ruling party.
Mr Darling's bid for self-preservation seems to have nobbled his boss's.Abort!
Mr Tusk's brainwave was to hand the issue not to a special ministry (easily nobbled by Poland's change-resistant civil servants) but to lawmakers.
Gangsters then find rich pickings in nobbling the participants.
Thus Mr Kerry's claim to the nomination comes down to two pragmatic notions: that he is a better bet than the existing alternatives, and that he stands a chance of nobbling Mr Bush.
