scupper
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- n drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard
- v wait in hiding to attack
- v put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- And Israel is unlikely to scupper the Obama Administration's push for a comprehensive Middle East peace by launching a war of choice.
- The judgment, handed down by Lord Justice Moses and Justice Sullivan, censured Robert Wardle, director of the SFO, for allowing threats made by Saudi officials to scupper the .
- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff also chimed in, accusing the mostly Democratic lawmakers supporting the human-rights provisions of trying to scupper the initiative.