Sentence examples for that scupper from inspiring English sources

Sometimes we have to delay gratification, resolving to become more aware of the temptations that scupper our chances of achieving important life goals.

It was the Ramat Shlomo announcement that scuppered the first effort at establishing indirect talks.

He needn't have signed the bill that scuppered his Amworks policy.

It is the same tendency that scuppered a Lib-Lab deal back in 1997.

Yet an end to fighting could see in a settlement that scuppers this law.

It was the inadequacy of this that led to the French démarche that scuppered the last bid for a deal.

But observers fear that the same errors that scuppered previous agreements are also visible in the six-page Pretoria accord.

Do you think that it was Eileen Drury using her super powers that scuppered you? [Laughs] It might have been.

She also has an old conviction for dishonesty that scuppered her brief career working in a bank.

The need to concentrate keeps his mind off the homesickness that scuppered a trial at Ipswich as a teenager.

Suzanne's inability to support the only viable anti-austerity party illustrates the sectarianism that scuppers every effort.