Word: derailed
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...Other factors - rising unemployment, rate resets on certain adjustable-rate mortgages, shadow inventory and escalating foreclosures - could derail the housing recovery, especially in the absence of the federal programs...
...baseball, one bad inning is often enough to derail your chances in a game. This is all too clear for Harvard, which was 0-4 in the first contests of its weeklong road trip...
...Republicans are also hammering Democrats for making deals in exchange for the votes of individual members. This criticism too is hard to sell on Election Day. Democrats kicked up a similar ruckus during the 2005 passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, when majority leader Tom DeLay threatened to derail the congressional candidacy of one member's son and threatened to withhold funds for then Representative Jim DeMint's Senate race if he didn't vote for the bill. On final passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) later that year, to gain Representative Robin Hayes' vote...
...election-day violence leaving some 38 people dead would have been a major blow to democracy. But in Iraq it is a sign of resilience - or else a measure of how many other problems the country faces - that Iraqis appear to have shrugged off attempts by extremists to derail the election with a concerted series of mortar, rocket and bomb attacks in several cities Sunday morning. The country's third parliamentary election since the American-led invasion in 2003 continued throughout the day, and foreign election observers noted a slight increase in turnout as the day progressed and as attacks...
...bulk of security intelligence on dissidents is gathered by MI5, whose work would remain largely unaffected by the devolution of policing and justice powers to Stormont. Nevertheless, a large-scale dissident attack could derail power sharing, an objective Mooney believes dissidents are intent on achieving. "These people are fundamental republicans, and violence is a way for them to appeal to a wider audience," says Mooney. "The greatest trick they ever pulled was convincing the world they had gone away. While the intent is there, you can't rule out more acts of terrorism." (Read "Sectarian Tension Returns to Northern Ireland...