Word: derailed
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That style and approach have provided a depth that should prepare the team should an unforeseen injury threaten to derail the Crimson drive for an Ivy title...
...should avoid the conditioned reflex of blaming each other for any incident that may happen in our countries." One of Kasuri's aides went further: "The Indians know that we have nothing to do with these bombings, and neither India nor Pakistan is going to let terrorist acts derail our peace talks...
...series of events conspired to derail the policy. The Algerians, who shipped the LNG, jacked up the price. The Carter Administration and the natural-gas and pipeline companies balked at paying more. After months of fruitless negotiations, the deal unraveled. The ships went elsewhere. Cove Point and two other plants closed. It was the end of the LNG experiment. But the shortage has triggered a scramble to reverse course. Today Cove Point is being expanded and will reopen soon. The plants in the three other states are already open, and plans are on the drawing board for two dozen more...
...welcome. Each terror attack on home soil can also be interpreted as an attack by extremists on Musharraf's government and his pro-Western stance. "We have to act very strong against them," Musharraf said of the Quetta killers. "It is unfortunate that this small minority is able to derail or undermine national feelings." If Musharraf cannot tame them, Pakistan might enter a period when even praying is dangerous...
...especially credible, according to law-enforcement officials, because they were supported by previous multiple tips. As far back as last fall, the U.S. was hearing about a serious plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge that involved a Midwesterner. An intelligence report from early 2002 said al-Qaeda wanted to derail a train in the industrial corridor of northeast Washington, hoping to smash the cars into tanks of hazardous chemicals stored near the tracks...