But even from there the brothers have tried to use their friends in Congress to scupper anti-narcotics legislation.
But fellow Conservative councillor Bryan Dennington, who proposed the motion to scupper the plan, disagreed.
The petty rivalries and internal politicking that accompany any merger can scupper the best-laid plans.
And since it partly reflects his perceived electability, any doubts about that could scupper him.
But one expert claims the continued dry spell may possibly scupper some hunters' chances of finding their prey.
However, newspaper reports on Sunday speculated that the charges could scupper the deal.
Even if all the technical hurdles can be overcome, however, politics the real motivation for the project may yet scupper it.
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That, and Palestinian and Arab reaction, could scupper hopes of progress towards peace.
Gordon Brown is lobbying for Mr Blair but a lack of support from EU socialist leaders could scupper his chances.
Whether by design or not, the incident looks likely to scupper any chances of bringing the fighting to an end.
This is perhaps the most explosive question of all, and the most likely to scupper or delay the whole process.
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That will scupper the government's pledge to bring health and other social-welfare contributions below the equivalent of 40% of gross wages.
At first, Katz said, he didn't believe him, sure that the Soviet authorities would find a way to scupper the plans.
He helped to scupper the bipartisan budget-balancing plan of the Bowles-Simpson commission, which would have raised revenue by eliminating tax loopholes.
So a no vote in one country would scupper the whole project.
China, which reasonably suspects America of trying to plump up India as a counterweight to its own rise, may also want to scupper it.
Whether by design or not, the taking of hostages in Moscow looks likely to scupper his chances of bringing the fighting to an end.
But if the Yellow Sea clash was a deliberate effort by hardliners to scupper new talks, they have allies of a sort in Washington.
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They are not part of some underhand British plot to scupper the mounting pressure for the return of the marbles within the next 12 months.
With the regime clearly in no mood to negotiate its own demise, that alone was enough to scupper any possible solo move by Mr Khatib.
Even a worse Japanese recession need not scupper the world economy.
By focusing on general issues rather than cross-border ones, the two companies underestimated a factor that would define, and could even scupper, the entire deal.
This link gives lawmakers every incentive to scupper the president's agenda.
The vote on whether the pool should stay is not binding and the council said any changes at this late stage would "scupper" the whole project.
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They have been attempting to scupper the election by whipping up a crisis over a dodgy land purchase by General Surayud Chulanont, the interim prime minister.
They are afraid of the renewed fighting that could follow a sudden failure of the deal, or that could erupt as a means to scupper it.
They may also hope to scupper cautious efforts by India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, to restart peace talks with Pakistan, which had collapsed after the 2008 assault.
Independent research warns that welfare cuts - particularly cuts to housing benefit including the bedroom tax, alongside a chronic lack of social housing - could scupper this progress.
If he loses it, there could be elections in late summer, in which Eurosceptics could conceivably strengthen their hand in the parliament and thus scupper the constitution there.
Verification is also the biggest sticking-point in the talks on North Korea's missile programme indeed this issue, along with the change of administration, combined to scupper Mr Clinton's visit.
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