Sentence examples for to derail something from inspiring English sources

It's important to build consensus, but we're not going to derail something just because we're not getting a consensus decision.

Pointing to persistent Republican efforts in Washington to defund or delay Obamacare as a federal government shutdown drags on, Lee said that "you can't derail something when it has already left the station.

"You can't derail something when it has already left the station," Mr. Lee said Tuesday in a news conference in the state capital, Sacramento.

The loss of Brian Cushing for the season deprives this team of a defensive leader, and though I hardly expect that to derail them altogether, something tells me they may be in for a wobble.

A look back at the history of health questions in the context of presidential campaigns suggests that while the headache questions may linger for Bachmann's entire candidacy, they aren't likely to derail it unless something more damaging comes out.

Indeed, whenever it looked as if Cuba was on the path to rejoining the world, Mr. Castro has done something to derail its progress.

O'Donnell says that "lots can go wrong" and there are "four way stops" and plenty of occasions to "derail" the bill but "something has changed" nevertheless.

With Dukakis ahead by double-digits coming out of the Democratic National Convention, it would take something considerable to derail his momentum against the candidate with the Iran Contra scandal hanging over him.

But every time, something has happened to derail the sale, and the expected neighbors have failed to materialize.

There's always something that seems to derail them.

Despite assurances by the sponsor group that all is on track, she worries something will happen to derail the dream.