How To Use Derailment In A Sentence

  • This was a move that wasn't planned by committee organisers, who called it an "irresponsible derailment."
  • The movement will actively work to stop the candidate in November, though the derailment will come from the ideological right.
  • About 514 feet of rail was dislocated in the derailment.
  • Police are investigating whether a train derailment between Ballan and Gordon was caused by an act of sabotage.
  • The two Governments decided that to demand a response to their proposals at this point would almost certainly trigger an immediate derailment.
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  • A preliminary investigation into the accident has blamed loose points near the station as the likely cause of the derailment.
  • The train was on its way back at the end of the day when a low-speed derailment occurred.
  • Rail chiefs warned of major disruption to services on the East Coast main line following the derailment.
  • Of course, in the short term the railroading process is likely to proceed unabated, but in the longer term a permanent derailment is likely. Hawaii Reporter
  • Please note these announcements were collected before the derailment in case anyone thinks they are currently making light of the situation.
  • On the contrary, if you're feeling lethargic, irritable or insatiably hungry, you're likely the victim of dietary derailment.
  • Bromley said most derailments are caused by broken rails, overheated train axles or human error.
  • The accident could have been avoided only by detecting the track fault and preventing the freight train derailment.
  • As the movie's plot gets more embroiled, it becomes less coherent and amusing, climaxing as it does with a massive train derailment, a hostage situation, and a final bit of flimflammery that's truly just nonsensical.
  • The collision resulted in the derailment of the cab car and four passenger cars of train 1270.
  • The derailment had happened when the flange of a wheel struck one half of a broken fishplate - a metal plate which holds sections of track together.
  • Signals, carriages and engines all need major upgrading while delays, derailments and breakdowns are the rule rather than the exception.
  • Five track gangs maintained the 72 miles of track, including over 700 switches and repaired the high priority derailment damage.
  • Police investigating the train derailment have not ruled out sabotage.
  • I also suffered an acetabular fracture of the right hip—a serious derailment, in other words—and an open femoral intertrochanteric fracture in the same area. On writing by stephen king
  • He said all three train derailments have apparently been caused by an internal defect in the tracks.
  • Both involved derailments, and both brought carnage to dormitory towns close to London.
  • For Virilio, to invent the ship is to invent the shipwreck and to invent the train is to invent the derailment.
  • The men, wearing high-visibility orange jackets or tabards, are reported to have been seen on the track at about 8.25 on the morning of the derailment.
  • Their primary aim was the derailment or interruption of intentional action.
  • It's best to see this as a delay rather than a derailment - of the controversial measures, fiercely advocated by the film and music industry.
  • He noted that for several years he'd had to eat "sarnies" caked in coal dust, while totally alone each day at the middle bend of a pitch-black colliery tunnel his job had been to watch for derailments at the bend. A charity dinner with Jimmy Savile
  • Five track gangs maintained the 72 miles of track, including over 700 switches and repaired the high priority derailment damage.
  • Trains on the Blue and Yellow lines between National Airport and Crystal City stations are moving more slowly than usual following two derailments of a piece of track equipment. Speed restrictions on 3 Metro lines
  • The speed restrictions are in place following two early morning derailments, both of which involved a piece of track equipment and resulted in no injuries. Metro delays finally lifted
  • Lately Metro has taken a lot of heat because of persistent subway system deficiencies: lack of air conditioning in rail cars; escalator and elevator outages; and operator or equipment failures resulting in derailments and collisions -- along with injuries and fatalities. Shaping the City: Let there be light (carefully) in Metro stations
  • The number of collisions and derailments has reduced steadily, with the lowest ever number being recorded last year.
  • The Indian American dream is paved with crooked paths, detours, and not infrequent derailment.
  • Now, maybe modern technology and materials have made train travel through that area safer, but there have been problems with derailments in that area in the past, most notably in 1989. Matthew Yglesias » High-Speed Rail in the Stimulus
  • The derailment in Lewisham caused chaos, with hundreds of trains cancelled or diverted. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were diverted by frequent derailments and frozen in winter by heating breakdowns. Truman
  • A couple comedies were a temporary derailment before he returned with a vengeance with Total Recall.
  • On Friday a rail shattered, causing a derailment near Hammersmith, west London.
  • He said this album has taken a bit of time because of some derailments in setting up his own studio.
  • The derailment in Lewisham caused chaos, with hundreds of trains cancelled or diverted. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yesterday's derailment occurred within five miles of Tuesday's smash.
  • The fact that the film survives these late derailments is a testimony to how good the rest of it really is. REVIEW: The Dark Knight « the balcony fool
  • In 12 months to March, there were 1,269 incidents that could have caused a fatal derailment or injury.
  • They were diverted by frequent derailments and frozen in winter by heating breakdowns. Truman
  • As a result of the derailment, there has been significant damage to the structure of the viaduct, which is likely to lead to a prolonged closure of the line between Limerick Junction and Waterford.
  • After two derailments on the tube in as many days, the RMT is balloting for action on London Underground.
  • All the points were supposed to have been refitted following the Hatfield derailment, which was caused by a broken rail.
  • Some derailments are temporary and staff just need flexibility while they get through it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some derailments are temporary and staff just need flexibility while they get through it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thus the presence of p53 mutation may trigger precipitate the derailment of the cell cycle machinery, rendering cells susceptible to additional aberrations in other important oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes.
  • The peace process got derailed for a while and that derailment brought it more publicity than it would have ever gotten any other way.
  • The trains are all to pot today because of a derailment farther down the line.
  • In the early 1980's, riders were plagued by derailments, track fires, crime, breakdowns, slow and unreliable service, boarding vehicles with non-working doors, inadequate lighting and graffiti. Gene Russianoff: 25th Anniversary of Westway

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