(1) "It sounds to me as if Spanish officials have succeeded in nobbling this report."
(2) Last October, I was scared that Robert Francis's report into the Mid Staffordshire scandal was being delayed four months because various individuals or bodies had nobbled him, and he would produce an emasculated whitewash (to mix a metaphor outrageously).
(3) SNP members – three out of seven committee members – were not ‘nobbled’ and we did not even have a pre-meeting to discuss how we would vote prior to committee,” he said.
(4) For all the arcana of the system - waiting around for hours, making sure you're walking the right direction through the right hallway - Thornberry knows this is a great time to nobble ministers.
(5) Confirmation of the cap came after Labour accused ministers of allowing the pension industry to "nobble" the reform plans.
(6) The message I’m trying to get across is that the UK government offer is a very fair offer, it’s a very constructive offer and we’re looking to get a deal.” SNP denies 'nobbling' Fiscal Commission's oversight powers Read more The minister said the UK government had wider concerns about the Scottish government’s approach to the fiscal framework and its decision to tie the hands of an external fiscal body likened to Scotland’s version of the Office for Budget Responsibility, which polices UK government budget decisions.
(7) Scolari thought it was a deliberate attempt to nobble his best player.
(8) William Hague nobbled it with court orders stopping the coroner and family hearing what evidence MI6 possessed.
(9) According to Khan, the Tory candidate, Zac Goldsmith MP, is a nice chap who has been nobbled by Lynton “Dog Whistle” Crosby , Cameron’s Australian campaign guru and the thinking man’s Jeremy Clarkson.
(10) Looking at the way the OBR hedges every statement about Brexit in its report, some may suspect Chote has been nobbled to say too little.
(11) That same year, Prohibition agent Eliot Ness began to investigate Capone's affairs, and in October 1931 – after Capone's efforts to nobble the jury had been defeated – he was sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion.
(12) Ciolos is said by EU diplomats to have been "nobbled" by the French, who oppose radical CAP reform.
(13) He then admitted he had never voted and encouraged others not to, in order to nobble the establishment.
(14) McClymont told the Guardian: "The government's botched consultation has allowed vested interests to nobble the tough action required to deliver for Britain's savers."
(15) They provide for the chairs and members of select committees to be directly elected by a secret ballot of MPs, taking the process out of the hands of the party whips which led to allegations of committees being nobbled by the government.
(16) "I seem to remember Iceland winning after nobbling Zaire's Pelé-like talisman, who played in bare feet.
(17) For all his charm, he finds himself ignored by an unfriendly Kremlin, who recently nobbled his attempts to become mayor in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.