Derail \De*rail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Derailed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Derailing}.] To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. --Lardner.
A prominent Soviet adviser warned the Kremlin less than a month after Soviet troops entered Afghanistan that the action would derail efforts to curb the arms race, he said in a letter published today.
However, Western diplomats said the delay actually helps the United States, 12 European Community nations and Nordic countries that are trying to derail the resolution.
TransCanada PipeLines tried to renew its takeover bid for Dome Petroleum by courting Dome's creditors, who could derail Amoco's $5.1 billion (Canadian) accord to acquire Dome.
And much of the area between the two cities is not densely populated at all." Some Washingtonians fear the budget-office decision could derail the city's effort to win its own major-league baseball team.
ROME (AP) - The European Community declared that the Persian Gulf crisis should not be allowed to derail an international free-trade accord due to be reached this December.
Flooding washed out supports under railroad tracks, causing a freight train loaded with coal to derail, said Sam McCuen, a state Highway Department spokesman.
What could derail such hopes is the increasingly global economy, warns PaineWebber's Ms. Farrell.
While it is possible that the violence could derail reform, this is not considered likely by observers, who feel the congress will endorse the broad thrust of Deng's plans. Nevertheless, risks exist.
Administration trade officials have tried several maneuvers to derail the lobstermen.
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati of Iran charged at a news conference Thursday that Iraq tried to "derail the discussions" by introducing "extraneous elements" on the first day of talks Aug. 25.
He said the cars carrying the hazardous materials did not derail and would be removed later today.
If his conservative opponents manage to dominate the proceedings, however, they could weaken or even derail the next phase of his reforms.
That controversial move, which LTV says will derail a successful reorganization, is now being battled in court.
The African National Congress said yesterday white right-wingers were plotting to assassinate its leaders and derail democracy talks, Reuter reports from Johannesburg.
The fight over health benefits had threatened to derail the reorganization of Federated Department Stores Inc. and Allied Stores Corp., which filed for bankruptcy-court protection in January 1990.
It is similar in other respects to the House bill Webster is now trying to derail.
Attempts to derail British Airways' revised bid, which was made Friday, will come primarily from rivals concerned about the market power of the merged carrier.
The case is not expected to derail the plea agreement.
Former Klan leader David Duke has sidestepped several attempts to derail his candidacy for the Louisiana Legislature, and is mounting a door-to-door push for the final week of the campaign.
However, Weiss, chairman of the House Government Operations subcommittee on human resources, denied that his criticism _ contained in a letter to Bush _ was designed to derail Hardy's career.
Washington, worried that Managua has embraced the peace plan primarily to derail U.S. support for the anti-Sandinista Contras, is pressing behind the scenes for ironclad guarantees that Nicaragua will allow democracy.
Cuomo said the federal government's attempt to derail the tearing down of the Long Island nuclear power plant amounted to usurpation of state's rights.
Sovereignty over its natural resources ranks with fisheries and agricultural policy as an issue which could derail entry talks. Norway was not directly involved in talks on the hydrocarbons licensing directive, but it found an EU ally in Denmark.
"Inflationary pressures on a worldwide basis aren't there," he said, adding that the recent "upward creep" of interest rates should not derail Group of Seven policies.
"It's pretty hard to derail a train," Carmichael said.
But Mr. Schank contends that the supervisors didn't have the proper technical background to ask the right questions and didn't want to do anything that might derail so big a project.
Dome's lenders could derail Amoco Corp.'s $5.1 billion (Canadian) agreement to acquire financially troubled Dome if a more favorable offer was available to creditors.
De Klerk said he was awaiting a full report on the violence, but said the deaths should not be used to derail the proposed talks between black leaders and the government.
Many Salvadorans fear that extremists on both sides, but especially revived rightwing death squads, will resort to terror in an attempt to derail the peace process.
Rural America fears that the rapid rise in grain prices will derail agriculture's economic recovery.