Word: derail
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, which could derail his peace talks with the Israelis. In his statement, Abbas coupled his condemnation of the Dimona attack with harsh criticism of an Israeli army raid in the West Bank. It was not lost on the Israelis that the al-Aqsa Brigades belong to Abbas's own Fatah movement, but it has spun out of the President's control...
...only two winners on caucus night - but nobody can afford to sound like a loser. After months, and in some cases years, of begging Iowans for their support, the candidates will finally get some real results tonight. And what they say about the outcome can define or derail the rest of their campaign...
...attacks against military and civilian targets. Such attacks have undermined Musharraf, who had long portrayed himself as the one man capable of keeping Pakistan stable and safe from extremism. But instead of coming down harder on extremists, he suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who threatened to derail Musharraf's bid for a second term as President on constitutional grounds. Within weeks, a nationwide protest movement sprang up, with tens of thousands of middle-class professionals taking to the streets. Musharraf lost his case against the judge in the Supreme Court, and Chaudhry was reinstated. Suddenly the strongman...
...finished his short speech by announcing the lifting of emergency rule on December 16. Since emergency was declared 26 days ago, Pakistan's constitution has been suspended, the Supreme Court dismissed and thousands of lawyers, human rights activists and opposition leaders detained. Citing a conspiracy to "derail the democratic process" by the judiciary and the media, Musharraf defended the emergency, saying "that because of these measures the country is back on the path to democracy...
...went flat again,” Rollins said. “That’s when we really needed to start pushing it up the court, [getting] quicker outlets on the forwards’ part.”Fairfield called a momentum-deflating time-out at 37 all to derail the Crimson rally. “That’s when the energy really fizzled out,” Rollins saidHarvard’s characteristic high-octane offense came up empty, leaving the Crimson struggling for points after the run to tie the game...