Witness the torpedoing of the Cheonan this spring, and the artillery attack last week.
Torpedoing the settlement at this stage, however, would sink the housing market still further.
Moreover, the US seems to be torpedoing Israel's acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
North Korea denied torpedoing the warship just as the team of investigators in Seoul unveiled their report.
South Korea accuses the North of torpedoing and sinking one of its warships in March 2010, killing 46 sailors.
In a diatribe published on Foreign Policy's Web site on Wednesday, Freeman accused the alleged "Israel Lobby" of torpedoing his appointment.
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Such head-to-head studies are rare, because there is the risk that the new drug won't work as well as the old one--torpedoing sales.
He did just that by torpedoing the Cheonan, the South Korean frigate, which went down in March with the loss of 46 South Korean sailors.
So why would their evil acts have the effect of torpedoing the prospect of immigration reform that primarily affects millions of illegal immigrants from Latin America?
The torpedoing of a South Korean naval vessel in March, which the Seoul government blamed on the Pyongyang regime, caused an international outcry that led to further efforts to isolate it economically.
Inserted into the department to oversee the destruction of the ABM treaty, Mr Bolton was also instrumental in torpedoing international negotiations in Geneva earlier this month aimed at enforcing the toothless 1972 biological weapons convention.
Surely the Bush administration is the clumsiest in recent memory, with Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld torpedoing Colin Powell's attempts to persuade and convince with their brusque language and offensive lack of respect for other countries?
The Carnahan campaign replies that Mr Ashcroft is a religious fanatic who is in the pocket of drug manufacturers and who played politics with race by torpedoing the Senate's appointment of a black judge from the state.
Now, there have also -- and I get questions usually about the other kinds of statements that seem to be torpedoing any potential for progress or seem to be restatements of ultimatums that would prevent any significant compromise.
The stated reason was the pressure of the tense international situation - a German U-boat's torpedoing of the RMS Lusitania in May of that year cost 139 American lives - but many reporters suspected Wilson had simply got tired of them.
Hindenburg, for instance, and even the torpedoing, just three years after the Titanic sank, of the Lusitania, another great liner whose passenger list boasted the rich and the famous, were calamities that shocked the world but have failed to generate an obsessive preoccupation.
South Korea and the US - with which it has a long military relationship - had already been conducting large-scale military exercises, following the apparent torpedoing of a South Korean warship by the North on 26 March, which killed 46 south Korean sailors.
Because of course Chinese bankers, if they withdrew their support for the US economy and their willingness to finance America's spending, could have an almost overnight impact on every American life, forcing interest rates to sky high levels and torpedoing the world's largest economy.
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