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单词 scupper
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scupper
They hope that as a result of failure to agree with us the other arrangements will be "scuppered".
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I was suddenly in a home where the staff were not supportive; frankly, they were scuppering.
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Markets can be, largely scuppered by the trade unions.
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Why have those arguments for the moment been scuppered?
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No doubt the advent of the general election scuppered all that.
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Then something strange happened during the arms negotiations, which ultimately scuppered the operation.
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One initiative after another has been scuppered because one section of the community could not gain the consent and support of the other.
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The agreement also scuppers the basis for environmental constraints, because it is a polluters charter.
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He said that we were scuppered by the speculators.
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He is the man who scuppered his predecessors' promises to bring in automatic train protection.
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With immense relief to the industry that was eventually scuppered.
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The public relations exercise was angled in order to persuade people that it was all the fault of the wicked trade unions; they had scuppered the whole policy.
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How many farmers, as well as seeing their pension prognosis scuppered, have seen the value of their herds, their stock and, therefore, their bankability, wiped out overnight?
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Will she also tell us what advice she would give to those in business whose investment plans have been scuppered by the stark collapse of her economic strategy?
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Scuppers can also be placed in a parapet, for the same purpose.
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