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Hume was also savagely attacked by members of his own SDLP, who felt that, in lending credibility to Sinn Fein, he was electorally sabotaging his own party.
But it feels like the daily default of anonymity is now out of date, sabotaging otherwise interesting stories that deserve input, and creating an intimidating environment for readers that are deterred from making a valuable contribution.
In September, he met the boss of Gazprom, the giant Russian gas monopoly, and ditched EU policy on Russia and Ukraine by refusing to repump gas supplies back to Ukraine from Hungary, sabotaging EU attempts to safeguard Kiev's energy requirements.
The Coalition backbencher Warren Entsch, who has been talking with colleagues on holding conscience vote, said Shorten could be sabotaging the chances for marriage equality by rushing the bill.
Though initially playing at a Boundary Park with an even smaller capacity than Bournemouth's home, Oldham thrived for a few seasons in the Premier League – many will remember how they came within a last-gasp Mark Hughes semi-final volley of sabotaging Manchester United's first league and cup double in 1994 – mainly through Royle's adroit management and eye for a player.
Tired of allowing them on to the show and then meticulously sabotaging their chances of winning once the public start to like them, the "overs" category has now been completely abolished by X Factor producers.
To send spies to shipyards across Britain to check workers were not sabotaging vessels destined for Chile.
But the Republican leadership, says Jeff Hauser of the AFL-CIO, will not want to be seen as sabotaging the reforms.
Indeed, thanks to the strength of the Left Party, the neo-Nazi National Democrats seem now to have little hope of crossing the 5% threshold for getting into parliament.With Ms Merkel weakened, Mr Stoiber sabotaging her and Mr Lafontaine losing credibility, Mr Schröder is starting to look better.
Shutting out foreign students is thus much more damaging than sabotaging any other export industry.
Since the EU had issued a joint, and more restrained, statement on Iraq only a few days earlier, this was seen as treachery in Paris and Berlin.Yet the move to support America was itself a response to events that seemed, to others, to be aimed at sabotaging the effort to put pressure on Iraq.
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The primary grammatical function of "sabotaging" is that of a present participle or gerund form of the verb "sabotage". Ludwig's examples show it typically functions as part of a continuous verb tense (e.g., "is sabotaging") or as a verbal noun.
Expression frequency: Very common
