Sentence examples for try to torpedo from inspiring English sources
Hamas could try to torpedo his efforts, but for the time being, the uneasy calm in Gaza seems to be serving its political interests.
He can push the leaders of the Republican majority in the two houses of Congress to try to torpedo the agreement.
That's where your hidden but compulsory contribution has been going: paying professional lobbyists to try to torpedo a campaign to protect the natural world.
And he has also made it clear he will not try to torpedo the president's tax-cutting agenda, which could add another $2 trillion to federal borrowing over the next decade.
Nevertheless a quick Broadway transfer was planned, but the creators — who by then had lost faith in the production, they say now — felt tied in knots and unwilling to try to torpedo the show.
This meddling reflex led Sanderson and her colleagues, the cables show, to try to torpedo Préval's PetroCaribe deal with Venezuela, to help block a minimum wage hike to $5 a day (winning $3 a day, instead), and to rubberstamp and pay for an election that they knew was flawed from the start.
Predictably, peace opponents tried to torpedo the talks.
On Capitol Hill, it tries to torpedo that authority.
"They have tried to torpedo me," he told The Independent newspaper at the time.
But he also referred to those trying to torpedo the peace effort as "extremists".
Johnson is, after all, trying to torpedo the man's premiership.
