Sentences with phrase «derailed by the controversy»

But Philip Major, who recently moved from Wyoming to Syracuse, said the project shouldn't be derailed by the controversy surrounding it.

Not exact matches

Brexit secretary David Davis will now travel to Madrid later this week in what was meant to be a meeting to discuss broader Brexit negotiations but which is bound to be derailed by the Gibraltar controversy.

Gordon Brown's attempts to concentrate on policy today were derailed when a planned appearance by Peppa Pig, a children's cartoon character, was cancelled to avoid controversy.

A widely presumed — and entirely worthy — frontrunner for Best Picture, Zero Dark Thirty, seems to have been derailed by political controversies that, whatever their merit (and I find it limited), are external to the film itself.

A beguiling departure for the director, Kundun — written by the late Melissa Mathison — is not without its pitfalls and controversies (the film's depiction of China almost derailed Disney's relationship with the country).