Sentence examples for order to derail from inspiring English sources

Activists said the company feared a "public relations minefield" and had sent workers home in order to derail the protest.

"We cannot let violent criminals kill witnesses against them in order to derail the criminal justice process," Senator Hatch said.

But analysts say that China will do everything in its power to play member states against one another in order to derail such legislation.

Rebel spokesperson Moussa ag Acharatoumane accuses the government of ordering Gatia to attack Menaka in order to derail the peace process.

Mr. Watson claimed that police officers had told Ms. Brooks in 2002 that they had evidence that her newspaper had paid private investigators to spy on a police detective in order to derail his investigation of a murder.

He contends that Suharto supporters were instigating violence in order to derail the corruption trial and undermine inquiries into rights abuses by the military, in East Timor and elsewhere.

The vote was 62 to 37. The Senate had hoped to have a final vote on the legislation on Tuesday, but Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, raised a point of order to try to derail the bill.

While the judge's order seems unlikely to derail the settlement, his specific questions, especially with regard to distributing money to investors, underscore the extent to which the settlement -- which was reached with regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission and Eliot Spitzer, the New York State attorney general -- remains in many respects a vague legal document.

The issue came to a head at the Paris Air Show last week, when Chinese officials sought to derail an order for 10 Airbus A380 superjumbo jets by Hong Kong Airlines, a domestic airline that operates between Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland.

Court orders related to the debt threatened to derail the contract so Governor William D. Bloxham visited Disston in Philadelphia to persuade him to relieve the debt.

In a court filing last week, they accused the other lawyers of trying to derail the settlement in order to get "unjustified" fees.