Examples of sabotage

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The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged.
If an officer in the chain of command sabotaged the measure, however, the policy did not survive.
Otherwise, individual states could have sabotaged national policy by placing restrictions on imports, foreign in origin, that came to them from other states.
The rather awkwardly colloquial 'too bad!' seems like a deliberate device for sabotaging the pathos.
According to this perspective, maltreatment can compromise children in their negotiation of stage-salient developmental tasks, thus sabotaging subsequent adaptation.
Local actors play a far more complex role than the conventional image of troublemakers sabotaging reform as assumed in the dualistic account.
Maltreatment can compromise children in their negotiation of stagesalient developmental tasks, thus sabotaging subsequent adaptation.
Imagine a society where people are generally so hostile to each other that the only way to avoid being sabotaged is to lie about one's true purposes, methods and motivations.
Whether the word is said in prayer or as an expletive its effect is to sabotage the carefully cadenced music of the poem's conclusion.
If "the best" medical graduates do not like their placement, lingering resentment could work to sabotage quality of patient care they deliver as residents.
Drawing on her own practice experience she exposes why some families might sabotage objectively-good packages of care.
Although covert, sabotage is not necessarily just an individual response.
To avoid actions or omissions that might be seen as sabotage, physicians in the union should obtain legal advice.
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