Sentences with phrase «scupper talks»

In European terms it would be considered politically toxic, but across the Atlantic the movement dragged the Republican party to the right and served to almost scupper talks in Washington on the debt ceiling — an event Standard and Poor's cited when reducing the country's credit rating.

Not exact matches

On the eve of this week's NAFTA talks, the fifth of seven scheduled rounds, the uncompromising U.S. stance now risks scuppering a 23 - year - old treaty that helped knit together a colossal continental economy, business groups said.

And he needs to stop always talking, he gives away too much information that the other clubs can then scupper us.

Everton have been in talks with Deportivo over the services of the striker and Arsenal's move could scupper the chances of the Merseyside club signing the 27 year old.

As the unpublished minutes show, the talks were scuppered by the refusal of the Labour representatives, Peter Watt and Jack Straw, to discuss a cap on donations which would fully include the trade unions.

MPs are allowed to talk about a proposal as long as they stick to the subject and Mr Dismore - known for his long speeches in the Commons in the past - surpassed his own record and scuppered the bill at its second reading.

If it has a political point to make, it's pretty muddled, and elsewhere the fine - grained sexism — this isn't a world where women are allowed to both talk and have their clothes on — seriously scuppers any sense of the story as thoughtful or progressive.