(v. t.) To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.
Example Sentences:
(1) They have repeatedly threatened to derail the country's progress," Kassem added.
(2) It may unsettle Exxon Mobil a little but they are pretty experienced now and I don’t think they would derail anything,” she said.
(3) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
(4) The Virgin train service from London Euston to Glasgow Central derailed on the west coast mainline near Grayrigg on 23 February 2007, with 109 people on board.
(5) Economy Clegg, Alexander and Laws have been determined backers of Osborne's austerity plan and have not been derailed from that view by claims that deep public sector cuts have damaged growth.
(6) Apprehension mounted but Liverpool's title pursuit could not be derailed.
(7) But the agreement was hard fought and civil society groups expressed "deep concern" over attempts by some conservative member states and groups to derail the process and undermine previous agreements.
(8) Australia attempts to derail UN plan to ban nuclear weapons Read more Australia has spent months in negotiations over the proposed negotiations, seeking to stymie the push for a ban on nuclear weapons, and has sought to press the case for what it describes as a “building blocks” approach of engaging with nuclear powers to reduce the global stockpile of 15,000 weapons.
(9) David, Marcelo and Simon are thrilled by the initial outpouring of support we’ve received from our fans and we’re excited about sharing our plans with the city, county and community soon.” The accord comes after almost 18 months of haggling with city lawmakers over the potential location, which had tested the patience of MLS officials and threatened to derail the hopes of an MLS franchise ever coming to the city.
(10) The results returned on Saturday night belie the weeks of derailed campaigning and defensive strategy from the National party.
(11) On July 14, 1991, a train tanker car derailed in northern California, spilling 19,000 gallons of the soil fumigant metam sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) into the Sacramento River north of Redding (Figure 1).
(12) A few recent headlines from British newspapers: "Power blackout traps 250,000 Tube travellers"; "Weekend of rail chaos 'only just the beginning' "; "Train was 'almost derailed' as it tried to make up time"; "Hundreds of rail station upgrades abandoned in cutbacks"; "Anger as 70-mile train trip takes nine hours in heat"; etc, etc, etc.
(13) The ambitious plan by the education secretary, Michael Gove , to announce a fresh wave of academy schools was temporarily derailed when his junior minister Nick Gibb was forced into the Commons to answer charges that his department had misallocated funds for academies.
(14) Describing her as a cheerleader who excelled in her schoolwork, the man recounted how her life was derailed by substance abuse.
(15) He said military action would not derail, but assist the peace process.
(16) That suggested a Fed belief that the drop in share prices will slow the economy but not derail it completely.
(17) The regular season, however, almost derailed the team.
(18) Paris climate summit: world leaders told to iron out differences before talks end Read more The 2009 conference achieved a broad commitment from countries to lower emissions by 2020, but derailed over disagreement between developed and developing countries over the strength of the cuts.
(19) While O'Dwyer's defence portrayed him as the vulnerable, introspective young man whose promising career would be derailed by extradition, prosecutors contend he is a skilled businessman who made large sums of money from a website he knew was profiting from pirated material.
(20) The risk is you derail the recovery and that means your borrowing in the longer term will be higher."
Track
Definition:
(n.) A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
(n.) A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
(n.) The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc.
(n.) A road; a beaten path.
(n.) Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
(n.) A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
(n.) The permanent way; the rails.
(n.) A tract or area, as of land.
(v. t.) To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.
(v. t.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
(2) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(3) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
(4) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(5) Tracks were almost exclusively written on tour, including this jolting number, with an additional four tracks recorded in the studio.
(6) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
(7) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
(8) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
(9) That would be the first step towards banning Russia’s track team from next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
(10) Piedmont’s research, which was conducted among 3,000 filmgoers and weighted to the demographics of the cinemagoing public, is not the same as the Hollywood tracking system, which delivers predictions of box-office success.
(11) Only two of the 31 commandos escaped; the rest were tracked down and killed.
(12) Latencies were increased two- to threefold, and tracking was more variable.
(13) However, clemastine caused a decay in subjects' performance in both Experiments I and II, but only on the tracking task.
(14) Burns has a successful track record of opposing fees.
(15) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
(16) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Beyoncé’s last album was an iTunes exclusive, with videos for every track.
(18) Cameras have been set up by the zoo to track his movements and footpaths in the area closed by the county council.
(19) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
(20) A lot is being expected of rookie cornerbacks Desmond Trufant and Robert Alford, but defensive co-ordinator Mike Nolan has a good track record of keeping his units competitive.