That narrowly scuppered an attempt to introduce proportional representation in British Columbia in 2005.
Between them, it now seems to many, history and personality have scuppered Mr Brown's administration.
Still, it was not personal attacks that scuppered Tiny Rowland, but the judgment of the market.
Haye had been scheduled to fight Wladimir last summer before being scuppered by a back injury.
Critics said the action was excessive and scuppered any chance of a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
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Similar demands scuppered the talks that came closest to success: between the PML (Q) and the Islamists.
But the trials may be scuppered by the understandable reluctance of farmers to put their property at risk.
The board warned that the deal would be scuppered if Mr Rothschild succeeded in retaking control of the company.
The plan was scuppered by Generali, Italy's biggest insurer and an influential shareholder.
Merging two investment-banking teams (or ditching one) would be hard it once scuppered a takeover bid by Deutsche for Dresdner.
Christian's arrival comes after fellow Australian Brett Lee's move to The Rose Bowl was scuppered by an elbow injury.
Still, banks will probably be hurt, but not scuppered, as long as the economy carries on its record-breaking run.
It was a drought of points at home that scuppered his club's chances of Champions League progress last season.
This is wise, for the grand sweep of history can be scuppered by more specific problems, and he faces many.
The fact that more than a third of people chose not to cast a ballot scuppered the Yes campaign's chances.
Ms Merkel may also raise the Doha world trade talks, scuppered by a row this summer over American farm subsidies.
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That is because it scuppered plans to add an inspection protocol (the proximate cause of the near punch-up in 2001).
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He has also blocked deals in which Dresdner would play second fiddle, a fact that many think scuppered the Deutsche deal.
But that plan was scuppered and instead Fulham boss Roy Hodgson and his squad travelled by luxury coach to Folkestone on Tuesday.
"It's an open secret she scuppered some of his initiatives, " says Ho.
Competition concerns have already scuppered one big deal in the industry: the three-way aluminium merger proposed by Alcan, Pechiney and Algroup in 1999.
Still, Kodak did eventually build a hefty business out of digital cameras but it lasted only a few years before camera phones scuppered it.
This vulnerability was nearly exploited by a pair of Nazi saboteurs in November 1944, but their plot was scuppered by an FBI manhunt.
Injury and illness have scuppered his early-season ambitions and, because of that, he has not enjoyed the same success he did 12 months ago.
Many believed the money was meant to fund the re-election campaign of then President BJ Habibie, whose chances of re-election were scuppered by its discovery.
Yet in 1992, the president of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, almost scuppered the Uruguay round of world trade talks rather than cut farm spending.
Such obstacles have scuppered previous attempts to revamp the second chamber.
They claim that American spies scuppered a rival bid by Airbus.
But the slide in telecoms shares has now scuppered this plan.
The clock was packed away in 2008 ahead of a planned development of the city centre but the recession scuppered the plans leaving the structure homeless.
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