Sentence examples for they derail from inspiring English sources

They derail our attempts to form a relation­ship with the sympathetic folks who populate his town.

It is important because the Netherlands has hitherto been very cautious on punitive measures lest they derail the process of repatriating bodies and investigating the crash site.

Sections from her point of view and those of others are meant to give a fuller accounting of McMorsey, an eccentric Vietnam veteran, but they derail a promising start and prevent the book, Gans­worth's ninth, from fully cohering.

How dare they derail the plan, which was that Theresa May and her cabinet were going to sort it all out without consulting Parliament.

And the biggest problem with character assassinations like the one currently being waged on Dao is that they they derail us from having frank conversations about how to finally break that system down.

Mr. Zedillo clearly made his share of mistakes, but it is misleading to pretend that they derailed an otherwise healthy economy.

Beyond the mountains, on the fringe of the Gobi desert, workers face another problem: winds so strong that they derailed a train on the existing railway line in 2007.

The cars were part of a 42-car train when they derailed around 1 45 p.m. about 50 miles east of Pittsburgh, said Rudy Husband, a spokesman for Norfolk Southern, which owns the train.

While it is unclear whether the Chinese will interpret the two incidents as simple mistakes or as overt efforts to embarrass Mr. Hu, there was no indication that they derailed the private discussions between the presidents that followed.

Moreover, it has worsened the deep divisions not only between America and Europe, but also between rich and poor countries about future liberalisation.Worse still, the WTO's many critics, notably the trade unionists and environmentalists who brought Seattle to a standstill, are crowing that they derailed the round (see article).

A few creative minds have sought to decentre the democracy-versus-dictatorship narrative, drawing out the common trends – rapid technological change, economic uncertainty, imperial ambitions, the rise of new discourses of planning, population and "racial hygiene" – that marked virtually all of Europe's states during these decades, even though they derailed only some of them.