Sentence examples for scupper the voting from inspiring English sources

An early winter could further scupper the voting if snow cuts off valleys in the country's mountainous areas.Perhaps the biggest problem is the IEC itself, a body regarded as so biased towards Mr Karzai and complicit in fraud that some analysts say there is no point in running another vote under its auspices.

The governing Pheu Thai party, which had defied protesters' efforts to scupper the vote through disruption, intimidation and a boycott, could boast that nearly 90% of polling stations opened for business and that nearly half of voters turned out.

But, Italian news agency ANSA reported yesterday that Bersani told his allies he would seek to scupper the votes because there has not yet been any progress towards forming a coalition.

But fears in the international community are growing of the risk of renewed conflict, with southern worries that former civil war enemies in the north will try to scupper the vote.

St Mirren and Ross County voted against the plans and thus scuppered the vote.

A hint of government complacency and a public overwhelmed by personal debt, rising unemployment and budget cuts could scupper the yes vote's chances.

Asked if she thought any politician calling for Britain to remain in those organisations was trying to scupper the Brexit vote, she replied: "Yes, I think I do, because what people made quite clear during that referendum is that democratic accountability for them was far more important than anything else".

But the most dramatic rebellion was staged two months later on July 22 when the Tory outcasts attempted to scupper the treaty by voting with Labour in favour of the European social chapter.

That anxiety and envy – which saw north east England Labour Mps introducing a clause which help scupper the 1979 devolution vote by insisting on 40% of all registered Scottish voters to vote 'yes' for it to pass (only 32.9% did), has deepened since Holyrood's foundation.

After significant opposition to the changes from the powerful industrial fishing lobby, and multiple attempts to scupper the process, the final vote was won by an emphatic 502 votes to 137.

David Cameron will today try to placate Conservative MPs who are threatening to scupper further devolution for Scotland unless he also curbs the voting rights of Scottish MPs at Westminster.