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    1. that management wanted to derail investigations that could throw a


    2. were trying to derail it with bloodshed?”12


    3. earnestly complete, and can derail the best laid plans


    4. But I do believe that it is time to restore US values of peace and tolerance and love for each other, and derail the corporate care plan that stirs up competition only to serve itself while killing good people by the tens of thousands and bankrupting America


    5. A stopover at the Foggy Harbor Jail en route back to a state prison would seriously derail my attempts at saving the country


    6. That information, if made public, could certainly derail the entire committee and its endeavors


    7. “Other rumors say he was put there to cause controversy and derail the project


    8. issues that threaten to derail them


    9. His earthly ministry in the attempt to derail Him? WHAT kind of


    10. emotional hooks that can derail them if

    11. You think wow, we need that person! They've got such a gift on their life - but listen, what is their character? Because only the character can keep the person in the place and produce the fruit God intended, so if we're not committed to develop our character and understand God's process of developing character, no matter what your gift and dream is, at some point you'll derail because your character disqualified you from the dream, the thing you were trying to pursue


    12. Don't let anyone derail it like I did


    13. Don't let anyone derail it


    14. That gave Cam fourteen days to figure out how the hell he was going to derail this


    15. importantly, our campaign to derail health care in the courts


    16. bounce, as this could make the cable derail off the lift towers, re-


    17. With one simple question I derail Newton’s physics and that is prove tome there is mass, not weight but mass presented by the cosmos


    18. And what are these adversaries? Adversaries are dark states of mind that try their best to derail and sidetrack us


    19. This way these dark states will gradually loose their grip and force and will be no more successful to frighten you, to derail you


    20. It is because ego in you now feels threatened and wants to derail your efforts to subjugate and transform it into pure love

    21. The authors surely would not have written that the Son of God was the impetus for Herod’s diabolical slaughter of the innocent infants in his search for the King of ‘kings’ who he perceived would derail his own personal status and kingship


    22. Already overwhelmed by the maelstrom entailed in composing, peer-reviewing, and defending his thesis, what he managed to accomplish was to almost utterly derail himself by inducing a living nightmare


    23. With a stroke of the pen, the president can affirm or derail the efforts of hundreds of legislators who represent the will of the people


    24. The stock market had been on an incredible run throughout 2013 and it seemed nothing would derail its historic rise


    25. Keyes told me my parents were terrified that my relationship with James would derail all the grand plans they had for me, which in their opinion meant he would ruin my life


    26. Investors tend to have short memories, and they forget that many of these businesses eventually derail in dramatic fashion later on


    27. From there you know to look for outside news and events that could derail your ideas


    28. That's no longer a safe assumption, so we force ourselves to more fully assess the risks of Political, Economic, Social and Technological changes that could derail our thesis


    1. What happened, Amanda? What derailed the Passion Express into oblivion?”


    2. Hearing the third ring Maggie fully expects the carefully chosen words of the voicemail lady to lay down the usual barriers to direct communication, but Maggie's rattling train of thought is rudely derailed by a male voice


    3. You do not want to get derailed from your purpose


    4. Be flexible with your children, but not to the point that the integrity or routine of your household is derailed


    5. She was a college student on her way to doing big things, when a smooth talking charismatic hustler completely derailed her future


    6. The question derailed Nicolas for half a second


    7. Its first ten cars had been derailed, and it lay twisted in the hollow


    8. Akira: The world does not want to be free, it needs chains that can keep them on the right path otherwise they will be derailed


    9. We hoped we could have chained you all sooner with Elena’s help, but she derailed the plan for a while


    10. After my abortive attempt to switch to NNS, derailed, I was told by

    11. In the ensuing uproar the whole thing died after two years and $26 million, having derailed California’s drive for higher standards


    12. My train of thought derailed


    13. absolute foxalation completely derailed the old sonofabitch and all that managed


    14. train of thought was quickly derailed by the throbbing pain in his face


    15. They derailed trains, hijacked trucks, mined roads and destroyed arms and supply depots


    16. Except for the success of the bombing raids, these same ballistic missiles could have easily derailed the D-Day invasion had many of the launching sites not been destroyed


    17. Getting derailed somewhere along the line, in these


    18. The Railway tracks were derailed, the Railway station and platform were vandalized


    19. He realized that afte Sammy had been kidnapped, he seemed to lose track, he derailed a bit


    20. “How can you tell?” another voice challenged as the script was derailed

    21. Such was an entirely unacceptable circumstance; it would have derailed the important joining of Houses Kessant and Delon, and it would have dangerously smeared the prospect of Prince Argon’s rise to the throne


    22. "I was the axle ringer for the Concord bound train out of Boston that derailed and killed the president's son


    23. She was the hope that got lost, the beauty that haunted, the passion that was derailed into murky dead ends, the amorality and fickleness that drove you crazy


    24. I told her that in a way tradition spoiled her life by the fact that her family imposed on her an unnatural match and tradition derailed mine


    25. Their outrage and confusion derailed their plans for a moment, but we were running out of time


    26. Derailed, shocked, or just a in a state of greater receptiveness - but certainly different


    27. But the venerable Professor wasn't going to be brow beaten and derailed now that he had


    28. Within a year, however, my work would be suddenly derailed


    29. When did my life become so derailed? I'm graduating this spring with an honors degree from an Ivy League college


    30. By all accounts, this was the moment that derailed him, leaving him feeling disgraced, infuriated, and bitterly jealous of officers

    31. Plans were hatched to go to this club or that party, but they always seemed to get derailed by another round of drinks and various other diversions


    32. First, the transaction was not derailed by our dumb insistence on a $25 million price


    33. He had a panicky thought that if he could somehow get into the store and close the door behind him, this nightmare could be derailed


    34. Using our trend-following example, the many siren calls over the past few decades that trend following is dead has derailed many a trend following and thus can be quite damaging as the markets have always returned to their trending nature


    1. transformative intentions, sidetracked for major overhaul, or even on the way to the scrap heap, there was a prospect of derailing Obama’s entire anti-American program


    2. deliberately derailing an investigation into the misappropriation of funds


    3. I actually liked helping poor blacks and Hispanics, so he repeated the favor after 2L, sending me to the Houston Legal Foundation to desegregate Harris County and jump start LBJ’s War on Poverty which his homeboys were derailing


    4. "Does she have a boyfriend?" I hated derailing the conversation for something so trivial, but we both knew this question would come up


    5. He had also been ready to offer some advice if need be, but the old demon of inter-service rivalry had reared its ugly head again, derailing the meeting and turning it into an acrimonious exchange, with little concrete being accomplished


    6. Submission of a contract to purchase that includes theseconcessions, or a lower-than-acceptable price, may end up derailing the entire transaction, and pushing you into foreclosure


    7. Jordan destined me a derailing, but, come Hell or high water,


    8. Did I share some blame for derailing her life? Of course I did


    9. Because newspapers accused the government of derailing its original intention, and corrupting the masses with lies and propaganda… so the government banned Christmas and the worship of Jesus the infant altogether


    10. also for the purpose of derailing the Creator’s plans for human salvation

    11. Will I ever get used to looking at this beautiful man? His beauty is derailing


    12. But now the orderly freight-cars of her thoughts were derailing, tumbling down embankments, because on the front of the newspaper was a yearbook photo of a pretty young woman blown up so the dots of the halftone were visible, a dark pointillism that made the face somehow instantly nostalgic


    1. It is a low-yield, time consuming process that derails your business, is frustrating, and puts your focus on all the wrong things


    2. It is a low-yield, time-consuming process that derails your business, is frustrating, and puts your focus on all the wrong things


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    Synonyms for "derail"

    derail jump

    "derail" definitions

    cause to run off the tracks


    run off or leave the rails