Sentence examples for scupper the possibility from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Turkey has rounded up over 1,000 members of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party HDPP) – which won enough of a share of the election vote in June to scupper the possibility of Mr Erdogan's AKP party winning a majority.

If there should be a second deal, might Congress scupper it?The possibility seems real.

For his part, Mr Laws was so immediately at ease with the Conservatives that he scuppered the faint possibility of an alternative pact with Labour by making embrace of Tory-type cuts a precondition.

More subtly, he implies that without some concessions by the West, hardliners at home will scupper any possibility of a deal; the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is known to be sceptical.Profound differences between the two sides have been apparent for months.

After cross-country she was high; on Tuesday, after felling a jump and technically scuppering the team's possibility of a gold medal, she is low.

When Mr Kerry accuses the administration of having scuppered any possibility of a more multilateral approach towards Iraq through its arrogant disdain for potential allies, he is saying only what the British Foreign Office thinks.

Regulators might also scupper the deal.

Internal rows may scupper the plan again.

Disagreements over such tricky matters could easily scupper the deal.

But these objections are most unlikely to scupper the agreement.

Officials blamed a Western conspiracy to scupper the deal.