Word: derailer
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...maintains an office or a second residence in East Jerusalem and a Palestinian deported from the territories. Shamir's intransigence brought his Likud Party into direct conflict with the other major member of his coalition government, the Labor Party, which has embraced Baker's conditions. The impasse threatens to derail both the peace process and the 15-month-old national unity government...
Kramer had hoped to derail the suit before it even began. He argued for dismissal on the grounds that the Harvard claim had not been specific enough in describing what the investment firm had done wrong...
...quavering voice, Sakharov urged the more than 2,000 parliamentarians to change the agenda of the meeting and discuss deleting articles from the constitution that stand in the way of urgently needed economic reforms. Disapproving murmurs rumbled through the hall. Was Sakharov trying to derail the proceedings? Why was he wasting time with such matters? An impatient Gorbachev finally cut Sakharov off in mid-sentence: "I have the impression that you don't know how to realize your suggestions -- and we don't either...
...final vote came afer Hatch and a handful of other conservative Republicans long opposed to any increase made a spirited rhetorical effort to derail the compromise by defeating or amending...
...reduce this tax. Although Democrats denounced the idea in last year's presidential campaign as a giveaway to the rich (60% of its benefits will go to people with incomes of more than $200,000), the measure is expected to pass in the House. Mitchell vows to try to derail it in the Senate, but he is without the support of Texas' Lloyd Bentsen, who as chairman of the Finance Committee could be his most powerful ally...