Sentence examples for wreck chances from inspiring English sources

Among room-exes, dating remains a thorny issue, one with the potential to wreck chances of a later friendship.

He said rejection would throw the state into "a double-dip recession" and wreck chances of addressing the state's long-term fiscal needs.

Yet China will have to hope that its human-rights record does not wreck its chances.

Is this a plot to wreck our chances now that France has withdrawn from the contest?

One horrible shot in a 72-hole tournament can irreparably wreck your chances of success; in the Ryder Cup it costs just the hole.

They said Wednesday that if Mr. Obama insisted on a public plan, he could wreck the chances of enacting a bipartisan bill.

Clinton didn't need much convincing that budget deficits were bad, but he did need a good deal of reassurance that doing something about them wouldn't wreck his chances of reelection.

It will take something powerful to stop Yann Eliès chalking up a trio of wins in four years, but he has only a 22-minute cushion over second-placed Charlie Dalin and one navigational error or unexpected breakage could wreck his chances.

But the politician admitted there was always the risk of courts issuing a negative verdict that would wreck Athens' chances of having the artworks reunited with the magnificent monument they once adorned.

William Hague's victory in the Conservative leadership election by 92 votes to 70 has left the Tory party as divided over policy as it is racked with personal feuds.After seven weeks of campaigning, Mr Hague achieved a victory on the third and final ballot despite, indeed apparently because of, an extraordinary last-minute pact between his two chief rivals designed to wreck his chances.

Lotus's Pastor Maldonado was leading it for much of the race, only to wreck his chances with two spins - the first on his way into the pits for his second stop on lap 39 and the second at Turn Six, dropping him way back.