Word: derail
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...former colonial power Britain - is an issue of national pride for the Sri Lankan government. "They don't want to be told what to do," says Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, executive director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives, a research institute in Colombo, and does not want humanitarian concerns to derail the final push against the LTTE...
...Increasingly, however, science is showing that human beings, regardless of their intelligence, are prone to misconstrue and misperceive. We contradict ourselves. We tend to focus on facts that match our expectations and underrate possibilities that might derail our intentions. We're sentimental. We're biased. We're influenced by others. And intelligence offers no immunity to these baked-in flaws...
...American press speculated that she could be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the U.S., or that she would be traded in exchange for Iranian diplomats detained by the U.S. in Iraq, or that her arrest was the work of elements in the Iranian government determined to derail détente between Iran...
...report recommends upgrading House staff while decreasing the administrative workload of tutors. But decreasing House staff would effectively derail those two goals, House Masters said...
...past 20 years as Mexico oriented itself to the outside world, joined the World Trade Organization and signed the North American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. and Canada. Even in the first years of this decade, when the shift of global manufacturing to China threatened to derail Mexican progress, the economy held its own. Politically, the election of the conservative Vicente Fox as President in 2000 - a mere 12 years after the PRI almost certainly stole the presidency from Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the candidate of the left - marked a decisive break with the past and signaled...