| An outdoor summer party was scuppered by police, who believed it to be an illegal rave. |
| If they don't, any chance of them achieving rock royalty status will be scuppered. |
| Byron's enthusiastic exploration of the Venetian fleshpots eventually scuppered his relationship with Marianna Segati and her husband. |
| Perhaps they've just been scuppered by inexperience and the difficulties of the devised show. |
| And a growing environmentalist movement in the country has already scuppered a leading mining project. |
| The absence of the two captive witnesses has probably scuppered the entire case. |
