Sentence examples for power to derail from inspiring English sources

Ms. Pak vowed to do everything in her power to derail his campaign.

The president, Chandrika Kumaratunga, who leads the main opposition party, has the power to derail the peace process, for example by dissolving parliament early.

He hinted, she said, at his power to derail her life and deport her relatives, alluding to a brush she had with the law before her marriage.

Since he became the commissioner in charge of competition affairs last year, Mr. Monti has become feared and respected as a man with the power to derail some of the world's biggest mergers if he is convinced they would restrict competition.

Even developed Asian economies, such as Japan, have the power to derail such plans.

Media reports suggest the former Chongqing party chief tried to abuse his power to derail the investigation into his wife.

In the run-up to a general election, support from well-known cultural figures especially popular comedians helped the democratic opposition topple the semi-authoritarian prime minister Vladimir Mečiar, whose abuses of power threatened to derail Slovakia's European integration.Now the next generation has spoken out.

That any one individual participant currently wields the accidental power to temporarily derail an entire market is evidence that our system is woefully broken.

That is about the nicest thing anyone in either party has to say these days about Mr. Davis, a cautious centrist who took office two years ago and whose biggest challenge has been how to parcel out billions of dollars in annual budget surpluses generated by the roaring state economy that the power shortage now threatens to derail.

Kelman points to Bob Kauflin, a longtime Christian songwriter and teacher, as an example of someone who creates worship music, yet is fully aware of the power of worship music to derail spiritual aims.

Iran has portrayed the worm as a cyberattack by Western powers and Israel intended to derail the country's nuclear program, which the government says is for peaceful purposes.