Sentence examples for scupper them from inspiring English sources

Might Fraser Forster scupper them again?

The DUP and Sinn Fein have protested about their exclusion from the proposed debates, and the Tories, who privately fear that debates would be a vote loser, will be hoping ongoing objections could yet scupper them.

The passengers on some of the overcrowded boats are thought to have been told to scupper them as soon as they see a rescue ship, to ensure they will be saved, even though many of them cannot swim.

This helps to explain why Congress is likely to block two big free-trade deals one with Asia, the other with Europe until after November's mid-term elections, and possibly to scupper them altogether.This would make both America and the world poorer.

Whether this merely delays reforms until the autumn or scuppers them altogether remains to be seen.In this section What now for Obamacare?

The play is about marriage – a dire comedy about how people try to get on and stop their habits scuppering them".

When it is revealed that Bernie isn't dead but suffering from an improbable sleeping sickness, and he has somehow recorded all the indignities meted out to his apparent cadaver, the fake charity board gathers around Chris and urges him to kill Bernie before he scuppers them all and sends them to jail.

She continues: "In my previous career, I wouldn't have said to my employer, 'Right, in three years' time I plan to leave and have several children,' because I would have thought it might scupper my employment chances with them.

Conservatives such as Texan Ted Cruz clashed with the committee's Democrat majority, who accused them of trying to scupper reform entirely.

Treasury sources say the other accountancy firms had become aware of it and were starting to market the scheme themselves, so it had been decided to scupper the rivals by informing on them.

I predict that Louis Walsh will deliberately scupper their chances early on by forcing them to sing a reggae medley of Funky Town and My Boy Lollipop.