Sentence examples for scuttling it from inspiring English sources

Leaders of the Democratic-controlled Senate have said that they will not act on the repeal measure, effectively scuttling it.

The commanders then planned a mission for Friday night even more aggressive than the one they had Thursday, before abruptly scuttling it after it had already begun.

Spending a quarter of a century building something and then scuttling it looks bad, even if the useful science that has been done on board could be written up on the back of a postage stamp.Finally, there is the moon.

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran has ruled out revisiting its terms, warning that Tehran might resume uranium enrichment if the United States withdraws from the accord, scuttling it for the other world powers.

They knew that the bill, enjoying solid support from Senate Republicans, would become law, and so they could not be held accountable for scuttling it if the economy crashed.

So why did Mr. Cameron, who believes judges should generally stay out of the political fracases of the day, take on Mr. Mbeki, most likely delaying his promotion to the Constitutional Court for years, if not scuttling it entirely?

Many local activists opposed the Trinity project, on the ground that blacks weren't getting a fair share of its benefits, and threatened to try to scuttle it.

GOP Congressional leaders also helped scuttle it.

Public scrutiny of the deal scuttled it.

Bush said he would scuttle it and did.

If the Republicans try to scuttle it, we're the ones who can communicate to the Latino community who scuttled it".