Exempel på scupper

• They hope that as a result of failure to agree with us the other arrangements will be "scuppered".

• I was suddenly in a home where the staff were not supportive; frankly, they were scuppering.

• Markets can be, largely scuppered by the trade unions.

• Why have those arguments for the moment been scuppered?

• No doubt the advent of the general election scuppered all that.

• Then something strange happened during the arms negotiations, which ultimately scuppered the operation.

• One initiative after another has been scuppered because one section of the community could not gain the consent and support of the other.

• The agreement also scuppers the basis for environmental constraints, because it is a polluters charter.

• He said that we were scuppered by the speculators.

• He is the man who scuppered his predecessors' promises to bring in automatic train protection.

• With immense relief to the industry that was eventually scuppered.

• The public relations exercise was angled in order to persuade people that it was all the fault of the wicked trade unions; they had scuppered the whole policy.

• How many farmers, as well as seeing their pension prognosis scuppered, have seen the value of their herds, their stock and, therefore, their bankability, wiped out overnight?

• Will she also tell us what advice she would give to those in business whose investment plans have been scuppered by the stark collapse of her economic strategy?

• Scuppers can also be placed in a parapet, for the same purpose.