How To Use Sabotage In A Sentence

The opposition boycotted and sabotaged an election in February which they would certainly have lost again. Times, Sunday Times
A shame since it includes the weapons, sabotage devices and other inventions which undoubtedly frustrated the German forces.
Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage.
The Sana news agency quoted an unnamed official as expressing "regret" that Arab states had "completely ignored facts on the killing and sabotage committed by armed terrorist groups".
Those who know that one meaning of sabot is “a wooden shoe” will probably admire desabotage, from Bill Parks, of Covington, Va. Word Fugitives

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The ministry's initial mandate was limited to internal security-the suppression of political dissent, counter-espionage, and sabotage.
After Colleen claims that Joy tried to sabotage her chances of winning, the meeting turns into bedlam (much to everyone's amusement).
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. Adolf Hitler
None of these accusations however has been proven and some within Bulgaria believe that they were generated as acts of business sabotage by weapons companies from other countries.
In 1963, Sisulu was tried with Mandela and other activists for planning acts of sabotage and revolution.
Food obsession falls under the form of self-sabotage I call compulsive self-sabotage, the hardest kind of self-destruction to shake. The Truth About Beauty
His main struggle is going to be Hillary trying to sabotage his campaign. Obama still struggles with some Democrats
This was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the ceasefire.
He is accused of attempting to sabotage the eradication plan by giving rats an antidote to the poison used in the eradication.
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. The Sun
OTTAWA — The Bloc Quebecois filed a police complaint over what it described as sabotage in one of four federal byelections Monday. Dismal Turnouts For Victory!
He was organising sabotage units and armed groups. Times, Sunday Times
Public life in America is strewn with wreckage from the reputations of figures sabotaged by their own lies. Fallout from resume lies can be brutal Padding resumes has brought down many figures
The fact that this official sabotaged the test is terrible, yet not surprising.
They increased their own effectiveness as a result, by improving the stability of their constituents, but at the same time they helped train an efficient modern work force and reduced the multitude of individual resistances to industrial society, ranging from idling on the job to theft and sabotage, that suggested far more fundamental hostility to modernity than the dictates of reason could counte - nance. PROTEST MOVEMENTS
Try to break your pattern of self-sacrifice and self-sabotage, and stay on the road to good health.
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. The Sun
The fire at the factory was caused by sabotage.
It had been judged wiser to keep our rendezvous location a secret lest any of the more intractable nobles sabotage our plans. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
He said that it was possible for staff to "sabotage" equipment and that the movement of staff in and around the furnaces of the ferromanganese smelters could distort results of testing for manganese dust. ANC Daily News Briefing
The Marx Brothers stow away in "Monkey Business" (1931), and a soda fountain is sabotaged with boozy "lemon syrup" in "Caught Plastered" (1931). On Screen: Rare Comedy for Cinephiles
Some have accused Stoiber of deliberately trying to sabotage Merkel in a fit of pique at her rapid rise.
Burmese peace negotiators have accused the Chinese government of interfering with the talks to sabotage a deal. Times, Sunday Times
There will be no sabotage of the civil service program during my administration.
A distinction was early made between readily traceable sabotage, blowing objects up with a bang, and undetectable sabotage - insaississable was the almost untranslatable French word for it.
Einstein confided that this attitude made him suspect that the Brandeis crowd was “committing sabotage” of his mission. How Einstein Divided America's Jews
But first to the Oxford Stadium, where a dangerous track sabotaged a night's speedway.
During the retreat a guerrilla resistance force was organized to conduct sabotage, operating behind enemy lines.
The Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperation Enhancement (PEACE) Act of 2009, introduced by Representative Howard Berman on April 2 says in sub-clause “J” that Pakistan is “not to support any person or group that conducts violence, sabotage, or other activities meant to instil fear or terror in India”. Pakistan Does Not Need American Aid, Good News
PENHAUL (on camera): And as the countdown to the January 30 elections continues, government officials believe the resistance fighters whom they describe as desperadoes will step up their sabotage campaign. CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2004
But then again, what would purposeful self-sabotage prove except that his listeners are all just force-fed lunkheads?
Many of these slave workers, male and female, deliberately sabotaged the work that they did - so in their own way they helped the war effort of the Allies.
It had been judged wiser to keep our rendezvous location a secret lest any of the more intractable nobles sabotage our plans. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Farm machinery was sabotaged, cars were daubed with paint stripper and the home windows of staff were smashed.
Not to sabotage our democracy and vandalise the fragile process of government by consent. The Sun
The map documented ten incidents of “sabotage,” thirty-one incidents of “underground activities,” sixty-nine “attacks on personnel,” 140 incidents of “looting,” eighty-three “wire cuts” of military communications, and one “riot.” Between War and Peace
The most famous element of Swiss defense were the sabotage plans: At the moment of German invasion, the Simplon and St. Gotthard tunnels would be blown up, as well as all bridges over the Rhine, power stations, and air fields. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45
Having failed to defeat McCreevy at home, it seems De Rossa is bent on an act of national sabotage by wrecking his chances of securing an influential post on the Commission.
These tactics were often not much more than pinpricks; more serious troubles could be brought on by traceable sabotage.
Through the 18th century there were riots and acts of sabotage provoked by anxiety about wages and unemployment. Times, Sunday Times
Farm machinery was sabotaged, cars were daubed with paint stripper and the home windows of staff were smashed.
The most prominent threats were listed as ‘infiltration and sabotage by hostile overseas forces’, ‘disturbance by nationalist splittism forces’ and ‘religious extremists and terrorists’.
Let's say an enemy has invited all your gang to a weenie roast, and you want to sabotage the picnic.
There has been no systematic attempt to sabotage or destroy the oilfields, either in the south or the north.
Joined by a small troop of men, who sometimes get lost along the way, you must fight to destroy the enemy and sabotage the invasion of the planet.
By now, sabotage has become endemic. Times, Sunday Times
Villain: Buttons Zortell (hireling), Nick Clipton (fake name of the man behind the sabotage, obvious early in the story that it is one of the three mine owners) Dusk Before the Dawn » 2010 » April
This count comes under the head of what may be called capitalistic sabotage. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
AMMAN Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Saturday legislation to lift 48 years of emergency law would be enacted by next week but warned that new laws in the works would not be lenient toward what he called sabotage. Reuters: Top News
This shows that violent sabotage is by no means unknown in the passenger ferry industry.
Of course the RÃ©sistance was militarily ineffectual from a conventional standpoint: It was a guerrilla movement, with a large civil component that emphasised civil desobedience and sabotage. Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers
The secret agent was arrested on a charge of sabotage.
However, even if you can't pull a sickie, the armchair revolutionaries say you can still sabotage your company.
STEWART: So Elvis decided to do his best to sabotage the recording, so his label RCA wouldn't release it. CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2006
Clearly, too, the resistance and sabotage mentioned in official documents were the exception, not the rule.
She also has a tendency to sabotage plans. Times, Sunday Times
The most famous element of Swiss defense were the sabotage plans: At the moment of German invasion, the Simplon and St. Gotthard tunnels would be blown up, as well as all bridges over the Rhine, power stations, and air fields. Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45
Bad weather, however, delayed airdrops for Cross before the war ended so Donovan eventually scrubbed the sabotage and kidnap missions. Wild Bill Donovan
In The Line of Polity, the outlink station Miranda is destroyed by sabotage, by a nanomycelium which Dragon supplied. Archive 2010-01-01
Even those who are the most devoted to a regimen of exercise and healthful nutrition can be sabotaged by their genes.
That sabotages the effectiveness of the demonstrators who are literally putting their freedom on the line, going through the process of getting arrested, handcuffed, put in a police van or bus, fingerprinted, mug-shotted, fined and sometimes charged with crimes -- usually charges that are unsupportable and ultimately dropped. Are Mainstream Media Covering 21st Century Freedom Riders Fighting For Health Care Civil Rights & Ending Wars
Fearing military attack and more sabotage, the Iranians are speeding up the preparations to install new highspeed centrifuges. Times, Sunday Times
At first Isak deliberately sabotages the intruder's research by preparing his food in his bedroom, or in other ways changing his habits.
Denied direct expression, the pair's love powers a feud of point-scoring repartee and prankish acts of sabotage. Times, Sunday Times
Through the 18th century there were riots and acts of sabotage provoked by anxiety about wages and unemployment. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps there was only the slimmest chance of his survival but for him to try and sabotage even that seemed a miserable thing. THE EXECUTION
Her father, who blames his wife for the move, is adamant about returning to the big city - so much so that he deliberately sabotages any relationships she might develop in Guiyang.
This long campaign of leaking, backgrounding and sabotage would be legitimised.
Pakistan has been accused of economic sabotage after a surge in the amount of counterfeit currency being discovered in the vaults of India's central bank. Times, Sunday Times
A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone were balanced on the track in a blatant act of sabotage.
It's at best unstatesmanlike and at worst amounts to sabotage-by-soundbite. The Sun
‘This is an act of sabotage which we cannot accept,’ he said.
The hermetic seals have been sabotaged; we have infiltrators within our ranks.
Three cars belonging to conservationists have been set alight, another was sabotaged. Times, Sunday Times
If you have watched any romance sabotage films before, you know the rest. The Sun
This is, frankly, a poor way to conduct a relationship, unless your intention is to sabotage it from the get-go. Lessons learned from polyamory. « Love | Peace | Ohana
Any sabotage or mechanical failures would cause power cuts in Britain within days.
In the darkened capacity of the enormous factory, they worked quickly to pull off the sabotage without tripping the alarms.
Although open primaries increase voter participation, they also create the potential for sabotage.
writer's block round& round this empty block again& again i go double, triple lost each awful keystroke a doppelganger sabotage twice meeting itself this nauseous elliptical process of so little unfolding consequence anticipation wearing too tight shoes cigarettes and coffee smirking in the background hemingway& faulkner offering whiskey still the unsolved crime: Writer’s block
These traditions, unspoken though they are, generate a competitive tension which leads to the use of deprecative gossip and other acts meant to sabotage a comrade competitor's status.
Both chutes were found to have been sabotaged and police launched one of the biggest murder investigations in Humberside Police's history, with more than 3,000 people interviewed.
It's dirty tricks to try and sabotage the election. The Sun
Pakistan has been accused of economic sabotage after a surge in the amount of counterfeit currency being discovered in the vaults of India's central bank. Times, Sunday Times
A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone were balanced on the track in a blatant act of sabotage.
When sabotage is directed at co-workers who are on the same level within an organization's hierarchy, it is called horizontal violence.
All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.
Relying upon her word mastery and a senior’s susceptibility to blindly accepting comments, she plants sabotage seeds into the company airwaves: Survival of the Savvy
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It is insufferable enough to see special interest groups and assorted dingbats cry out against and attempt to sabotage the distribution of movies, video-games, and music. Archive 2009-09-01
She also has a tendency to sabotage plans. Times, Sunday Times
No sooner had the lights gone out than there were mumblings of sabotage, some kind of conspiracy, foul play, under-hand machinations.
They conducted a campaign of economic sabotage.
It's dirty tricks to try and sabotage the election. The Sun
Would I purposely sabotage his efforts? Times, Sunday Times
While the men were trained in sabotage and to kill silently, the women operated radios and broadcast false messages.
He had jumped out of a light aircraft while unwittingly wearing a sabotaged parachute.
The trainees were schooled in spy photography and sabotage, Morse Code and minelaying.
And I'm telling you now that no deal will be con-summated until you explain to me why a relative of your negotiator has sabotaged your product. Demons Of Air And Darkness
The fire at the factory was caused by sabotage.
Where James proves himself to be a good Republican stooge is that little bit hidden in the above post that acts as if everything were pre-ordained, and ignores the willful acts of sabotage undertaken by Reagan, Bush, Clinton (largely in the form of laws pushed by a Republican Congress), and Bush. Matthew Yglesias » The Big Lie
Instead, we must listen to protestations of innocence and some nonsense suggesting that his sample had been sabotaged, and they know who did it.
It is dangerous to mortgage your future to unhealthy or harmful habits. They will sabotage your future. Dr T.P.Chia
Seal products brutalize defenseless seal pups, sabotage China's modernization (in moral development), poison and harm Chinese consumers, and tarnish Canadian international image.
She quit her job when the ethics complaints grew too loud; she sabotaged the GOP presidential nomination; she basically does nothing now except ghostwrite a book and give a canned lecture bashing the current administration! Clinton edges out Palin in 'Most Admired' poll
The secret agent was arrested on a charge of sabotage.
Oh for cross-party future planning which is not sabotaged after each election. Times, Sunday Times
The Anglo-Dutch oil major's operations onshore Nigeria have long been beset by sabotage and th eft and the company has faced decades of criticism from environmental and human-rights groups concerned about the impact its activities have had on the local ecosystem. Shell Sells Oil Stakes in Nigeria
Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage.
He's an undercover sabotage agent if ever there was one.
The fact that Renee would wear skimpy, lacy underwear clearly visible underneath her oversized, gaping overalls should have indicated to my brother and me that a personal partnership was also forming, but when Mel left me and Renee suddenly sabotaged her marriage to my brother to be with Mel, Brother and I were left idiotically scratching our heads in disbelief. Portia de Rossi: My Ex-Husband Stole My Brother's Wife
Garbage and foul smells can sabotage good feng shui.
The secret agent was arrested on a charge of sabotage.
Most were suspected of draft evasion, desertion, or sabotage.
The rebels had tried to sabotage the oil pipeline.
However, even if you can't pull a sickie, the armchair revolutionaries say you can still sabotage your company.
Acts of sabotage and non-cooperation undermined the Nazis' attempts to exploit the resources of Denmark.
Emotional detachment and apathy helped him through a difficult family life but sabotage his chances as an adult. Christianity Today
I have overstepped my boundaries, challenged his authority, sabotaged his mission.
He said other methods of sabotage being used were what he termed inexplicable increases in prices of commodities by businesses and manufacturers here. ANC Daily News Briefing
Sabotage could range from pinprick attacks on individual weapons or machines to full-scale onslaughts on formed bodies of troops.
There was a sabotage of the oil pipelines a few days ago, now this.
The guerrillas sabotaged a dam producing a third of the country's electricity, knocking out power in the nation's capital.
So they tried to drive the movie company away by thievery and sabotage at night. THREE IN ONE
Positive emotions enhance your life. Negative emotions sabotage your life. Dr T.P.Chia
On returning, he found each of his wheels had been sabotaged and the following apercu stuck to his windscreen: "Can yir dug blow up tyres, mister? I've a bone to pick with David Attenborough | Kevin McKenna
The resistance movement rescued downed pilots, radioed military movements to London, and sabotaged German railway depots.
The headline asks if sabotage is happening - with no proof (that I can see) to even hint that such a thing has happened and/or that NASA is investigating actual events as suspected sabotage at this attempt. Imagining News - NASA Watch
Thus the chances of his winning the game is sabotaged by unfair meddling.
Remember, this isn't the first time these so-called geologists have tried to sabotage our mining operation. Firestorm
Early on, in the face of sabotage of the original, "toothy" Murtha plan by the Politico's John Harris and the Washington Post editorial board, leadership support for anything antiwar members might sign on to collapsed. Behind-the-Scenes Tensions Among House Dems At Fever Pitch Over Iraq Vote
Three cars belonging to conservationists have been set alight, another was sabotaged. Times, Sunday Times
In particular, it needs to lay out clear standards and guidelines for future projects and prevent last-minute efforts to sabotage the approval process so investors and developers can more accurately gauge the time and costs involved in siting new facilities. The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved
If you have watched any romance sabotage films before, you know the rest. The Sun
Not since The Phantom Menace has a movie been so sabotaged by an annoying, screen-hogging moppet. 2009 April : Scrubbles.net
Pakistan has been accused of economic sabotage after a surge in the amount of counterfeit currency being discovered in the vaults of India's central bank. Times, Sunday Times
The term enemy combatant has been used for decades to define members of a military who engage in activities such as sabotage and espionage that occur outside normal combat. 'Enemy Combatant' Label Is Dropped for Detainees
Wise business management, and more particularly what is spoken of as safe and sane business management, therefore, reduces itself in the main to a sagacious use of sabotage; that is to say a sagacious limitation of productive processes to something less than the productive capacity of the means in hand. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
It's a general rule of management that you never demote anybody important: You fire them, and fast, or else they will sabotage your organization.
Clearly, too, the resistance and sabotage mentioned in official documents were the exception, not the rule.
And as Sith commander Yaru Korsin grapples with the looming loss of the paradise he rules and the race his people have come to depend upon, he must confront the dark possibility that the catastrophe may not be cruel fate but insidious sabotage. February 2010
Maybe instead it was a story about subconscious guilt - Hamlet realises the Hamlet family has done dirt to the Fortinbras clan, and inadvertently sabotages his own kinfolk and scuppers his inheritance.
Police are investigating whether a train derailment between Ballan and Gordon was caused by an act of sabotage.
She had a conditional offer from art school but deliberately sabotaged her exams.
Preventing last-minute efforts at sabotage is more difficult, structurally, because there are very few processes in government that are immunized from political interference. The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved
Along the way, Chuck bakes antidepressants into pies for her eccentric aunts, who believe she's dead; a woman is killed by a scratch-and-sniff book; and a rival candy-store owner, desperately afraid of birds, is out to sabotage the pieman. Replanting ABC's 'Pushing Daisies': Will it bloom or wilt?
The plentiful numbers of highly explosive targets, like gas tanks and ammo dumps, are strategic elements of sabotage.
Power outages, acts of sabotage and general unrest have hampered production.
They played an important part in preventing enemy raids, sabotage and terrorist operations.
Right from the outset, the police cast doubt on the sabotage theory.
To give an idea of the kind of resistance undertaken, the book tells the stories of some of the groups that worked with Britain to sabotage German facilities.
The opposition boycotted and sabotaged an election in February which they would certainly have lost again. Times, Sunday Times
Was the fire an accident or sabotage?
Every single plane had been sabotaged.
The accusations of sabotage are being viewed among workers as a crude frame-up attempt, aimed at creating conditions to sack the crew and bypass the court.
I was hired by timber workers, mining and ranching interests to investigate acts of sabotage against their industries.
By now, sabotage has become endemic. Times, Sunday Times
If their superior is a woman, a significant number tend to try to end-run or sabotage the female boss. Feminism, Social Change, and Speculative Fiction « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
His parents were working on a billion dollar assignment, when John sabotaged everything, and ruined their reputations.
They trained in the evening in such things as weapons handling, unarmed combat and basic sabotage.
Others unintentionally sabotage their relationships by exhibiting overly possessive, clinging, dependent behaviour.
The only thing I couldn't get into the shredder was the huge roll of blueprints for the Convention Center in Miami, but because the Republicans would be using it too, and there was no longer a plan in existence to sabotage the air-conditioning units to which the blueprints could be linked, I thought it safe to leave them in the office. Will
Unfortunately, this type of viewing can become a nasty habit that, in the end, sabotages any meaningful engagement with sports.
The word sabotage is storied to be from the French word for wooden shoe, sabot, to recall how French workers threw their shoes into newfangled machinery to foil the efforts of industrial revolution bosses. Survival of the Savvy
He said they were called sabots, or klompens - and were the root of the word sabotage - when Dutch militant workers had thrown them into the gears to stop factory production as protest over something.
An official communiqué issued tonight by the Polish police revealed a widespread conspiracy to organise acts of sabotage.
He accused the opposition of trying to sabotage the election.
Nowhere on Dharual can one find better-crafted ships than in Covar, a truth held for more than a millenary now (though the Shokunate shows promise in their newest designs, despite Tsarniot attempts to sabotage their development). The Codex Continual » Kharndam Guide: Tsarnus
The main electricity supply had been sabotaged by the rebels.
A definite way to sabotage your plan for shredded abs is to give into food cravings.
This resistance could include workplace go-slows, mass sick leaves, industrial and military sabotage, and the non-payment of rents and taxes.
Another sort of deliberate attempt to purposely sabotage you?
…And that is that it will be easy, *easy*, to sabotage a program this unpopular, once it passes. The Broken Political Equation - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
Somebody aboard the British hospital ship patrolling the Norwegian seas is intent on sabotage. SAN ANDREAS
Violating the rules of on-line etiquette, also called netiquette, can also increase the probability of sabotage occurring.
Frequently staff will resist the change in ways which may be less dramatic than sabotage, but be equally effective.
With no one left to sabotage them, Snow White and the prince lived happily ever after.
It followed one on Saturday that set a gas pipeline ablaze in the western desert and which Oil Ministry officials said was due to sabotage.
He commented that this could be interpreted as an attempt on the part of the General Staff to sabotage reform in the army.
The scenarios might involve a simulated attack by terrorists or mock acts of sabotage by insiders.
Their arrest is only one of an increasing number of arrests in which Germans have been suspected of planning similar acts of sabotage.
Coalition hard-liners have been trying to sabotage a pullback.
They tried to sabotage my party by getting drunk.
Second, in some industries the employer may fear sabotage from disgruntled redundancy candidates.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. Adolf Hitler
Many young recruits, committed but unschooled in any sort of visual language, often resorted to producing hand-lettered placards in workshops subject to state harassment and sabotage.
Here, the most radio-friendly melodies are sabotaged by pointed political commentary or swearing.
Would I purposely sabotage his efforts? Times, Sunday Times
Even the anonymous faculty members Blackie overhears chatting in the dining club are evil-minded snobs, plotting to sabotage younger colleagues tenure or send them off to Lesser Universities.
To balance and control your emotions is one of the most important things in life. Positive emotions enhance your life. Negative emotions sabotage your life. Dr T.P.Chia
Now our television shows are filled with confused men and women who philander, masturbate, harbor homicidal thoughts if not actions, take drugs freely, have anonymous sex, sabotage others and abuse themselves. Mickey Becomes a Rat And We All Like It: Why Are Our Heroes All Dark?
They are out to get him -- a vast network of terrorist professors, angry liberal operatives and comsymp cultural elites; the Cornel Wests, George Soroses, the "creatures" at Media Matters, and of course, the "Blumenthal left;" all of them conspiring to advance an insidious plot to sabotage his ambitions, unleash black looters and suicide bombers on the Heartland, and blacklist his allies. Max Blumenthal: The Demons of David Horowitz
Oh for cross-party future planning which is not sabotaged after each election. Times, Sunday Times
And he has sabotaged efforts by his own fore ign ministry to improve ties with neighboring Armenia. What Is Happening to Turkey?
I was a scab office cleaner during a labor strike of cleaners, nightwatchmen & porters, but I lost the contract when the offices I was cleaning were sabotaged by strikers.

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