Terry Glavin

As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to Iran's ruling theocracy have amounted to diplomatic shivs in the backs of Iran's youthful democratic insurrectionists, mash notes written directly to Khomeinist supremo Ali Khamenei and the scuttling of programs documenting the regime's human rights outrages.

Canadian Author

Anthea Butler

McCain courted in 2008 what I would call 'fringe' evangelicals, in part because evangelicals were skeptical of his commitment to values voters. McCain's embrace of Palin came after having to scuttle endorsements from John Hagee and Rod Parsley, charismatics who believed in Armageddon and fiercely supported Israel.

American Educator

Katie Hopkins

If you are confiding in someone, it needs to be the woman in your life. If that woman is your mother, you may as well scuttle back under her petticoats and let the real women in pencil skirts and tortuous heels get on with the job of husband-hunting.

English Entertainer

Rachel Khoo

Back in my school days, when I would scuttle off with a cheese roll, an apple, a box of Sun-Maid raisins and a Penguin bar, my packed lunches were reassuringly predictable. And I liked it that way.

British Chef

Ross Kemp

I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

English Actor

John C. McGinley

On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.

American Actor

Scuttle is typically used in marine contexts, referring to specific structures on boats or ships.

Nautical Term

In maritime use, a scuttle usually involves a covering that can be opened or closed.

A Cover's Involvement

Scuttling a ship is intentional, differentiating it from accidentally sinking.

Deliberate Act

Scuttling is a serious, often last-resort action taken under extreme circumstances.

Dramatic Decision

To scuttle means moving quickly, often to escape something or reach safety.

Quick Movement

When scuttling, the steps are short and rapid, not like long strides when running.

Small Steps

A scuttle as a noun implies a sudden, brief movement rather than a leisurely walk.

Sudden Action

Using scuttle to mean abandon suggests a hasty or forced change of plans.

Change of Plans

To scuttle plans often carries a connotation of disappointment or frustration.

Negative Connotation

 because you can lock it and seal it. You can lock it down, yeah. So it would be the same, right? It should be watertight. And why would that rupture? It would have to run aground or someone's done it on purpose. You mean someone scuttling the ship. Yeah. I'm sure the rescuers

A Mysterious Sinking PIPE...

 home in here now they were having a family TIFF and some of them scuttled off into the grass and I think they might be one or two of them and down there at the moment but what a wonderful tree this is have a look at it it is so characteristic and this bark of

Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...

 creating their very own little snow shoes. You see these little ptarmigan just scuttling back and forth. I think I can see little berries kind of buried under the snow? - Over there! Red fox! Red fox! - What? - See that? Grass mound. It's behind the grass.

The Unsung Heroes of the...

 seems willing to turn down the temperature rather than building bridges and relationships based on mutual understanding or shared respect this oppositional nuanced averse posture rewards ideological purity and public shame the very things that scuttles

How to disrupt...

 so being small gives animals a low energy requirement and an adaptive advantage. And yet, the sea is also the land of giants. Here, gargantuan squids can reach 18 meters long. Isopods scuttle around the sea floor like enormous wood lice.

The otherworldly...

 then he could take the stories. Anansi humbly accepted. Nyame didn’t see him grinning as he scuttled away. Back on Earth, Anansi grabbed his magic bag and set to work. Anansi found Onini the Python bathing in the sun.

The myth of Anansi, the...

 to the Devonian period; a strange world. Armored predators with razor-edge jaws dominated alongside huge fishes with arm bones in their fins. Crab-like fishes scuttled across the sea floor.

How to win at evolution...

 crocodiles well these Mara hain has spent a lot of time in water well there we go Oh deeper are you gonna try scuttle for the side

Safari Live - Day 65 PIPE...

 of scuttled warships evidence of an explosive past

Scuttle

A small hole with a cover towards the top of a ship or aircraft.