Sentence examples for the scupper from inspiring English sources

Odyssey says it confirmed the wreck's identity from evidence including the number of holds, the anchor type, the scupper locations and red-and-black hull colors that matched the scheme used by the British Indian Steam Navigation Company.

As we got underway, Percy Heath was scraping ice off the cockpit and the deck, pushing it toward the scuppers.

This topic has been retail analysts' favourite talking-point, all the more so this week, with the scuppering of the firm's hopes of a link with Safeway.

But he added that the scuppering of the summit by the US showed its inability to pursue ties with Moscow on an "equal footing".

In after-hours New York trading following the scuppering of the deal, Satyam shares rose $3.19, or 56.0%, to $8.89.

He loved watching the water and foam run up on deck through the scuppers.

The success ISIS enjoyed in Iraq led to the scuppering of the Iraqi government and the return of American airstrikes.

But if the unions scupper the deal, Alitalia's demise would be the most spectacular of all the airlines that have fallen to earth this year.

Should London's workforce leave the capital to scupper the lives of the "super-wealthy"?

In April 1998 the NGOs used the Internet to scupper the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), another international agreement designed to harmonise rules on foreign investment.

It's an argument that, on the surface, scuppers the classic drug-taker defence: what's the problem as long as I'm not harming anyone else?