• Yet many Democrats and a handful of isolationist Republicans seem intent on scuttling these pacts.

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  • They briefly jostle in the moonlight, guzzling loutishly, before losing interest and scuttling back into the undergrowth.

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  • The Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono has asked the Russian leadership to provide detailed information about the scuttling procedure.

    BBC: Putin demands successful Mir scuttling

  • In an interview in 2000, Aspinall said Lucan probably committed suicide by scuttling his boat in the English Channel.

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  • Moscow is desperately keen for the scuttling mission to pass off without mishap.

    BBC: Putin demands successful Mir scuttling

  • Once new spending excursions launch, scuttling wasteful programs risks mutiny by aggrieved voters.

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  • This involved strapping a four-hundred-pound appliance, weighted with lead shot, onto your back and scuttling across a lot at Universal Studios.

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  • That plan blew up weeks before the vote, scuttling any hope of New York winning the right to host the 2012 Games.

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  • Those amendments, they said, would serve as "poison pills" that would have the effect of scuttling the bill, even if the House approved it.

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  • Kneeling close, you could see how deceptively alive the shell-y mud was: It harbored whole scuttling ecologies of oyster-drill snails, tiny shrimp and crabs, and floating egg cases.

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  • The biggest push in nearly two decades to restrict firearms in the U.S. collapsed in the Senate on Wednesday, scuttling a major element of President Obama's second-term agenda.

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  • In Nepal the party representing former Maoist insurgents withdrew from the coalition interim government, throwing the peace process into jeopardy and potentially scuttling assembly elections due in November.

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  • Both sides accused the other of scuttling the peace effort.

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  • No country regards ramming, disabling, or scuttling ships to be legal activities, and, except on rare occasions, even naval ships cannot lawfully interfere with foreign vessels on the high seas.

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  • With the exception of a one-hour dinner break, the lawmakers spent the remainder of Saturday in tense discussions, at times in several groups, with a few scuttling from one group to the other.

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  • Scientific speculation has led to the appearance of everything from airborne jellyfish drifting through alien skies to heavily armoured crab like creatures scuttling across deserts warmed by distant suns, on television and cinema screens.

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  • The Dark Woods are a hallucinogenic nightmare of scuttling creatures and pustulated swamps, while an interlude in "Fairyland" is pure kitsch but charmingly imaginative: Toadstools have eyes, and flower petals transform into fluttering butterflies.

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  • Colonial rivalry and conflict then ensued, and, in the face of a British attack, the Germans abandoned the port of Kigoma, scuttling their ship, the Graf Goetzen, to stop it getting into British hands.

    BBC: Hope yet for African Queen gunboat on Lake Tanganyika

  • Spending a quarter of a century building something and then scuttling it looks bad, even if the useful science that has been done on board could be written up on the back of a postage stamp.

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  • While the battle lines are being drawn, the scuttling little monster with the Peter Lorre wheedle leads Frodo and Sam toward a trap in order to steal the Ring before Frodo can finally return the damned thing to Mount Doom.

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  • So the real question, then -- one made much more urgent by the prospect of the Supreme Court scuttling the current guideline system -- is how to channel and allocate sentencing discretion, recognizing that there is no way to eliminate it.

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  • What sends them scuttling elsewhere?

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