There's a very simple reason for the scotching of the Scots.

"You will be at no graver work than the scotching of this that I tell you of."

Reuters quoted a senior Government official as scotching speculation that some right-wing Cabinet members were withholding full support.

Vice President Dan Quayle, who is heading the President's Council on Competitiveness, said this month that $10 billion to $20 billion a year had already been saved by scotching costly and unnecessary rules.

Once the women of Christendom become at ease in the use of the ballot, and get rid of the preposterous harridans who got it for them and who now seek to tell them what to do with it, they will proceed to a scotching of many of the sentimentalities which currently corrupt politics.

But those plans were scotched with the offer from Prime.

"And we've already scotched that idea because of the safety factor."

Yet for all these restrictions, large developments have not been completely scotched.

My temptation was to head up to the second floor, but I scotched the impulse.

"Being a dean pretty much scotched my activism," she said.

Every hour a man hath said "That at least is scotched and dead."

At first he thought the man was watching him, but a short perusal scotched that idea.

And worries about disabled children slowing everyone else down have been scotched.

Cicero's stand went a long way toward scotching the rumor.

That is what scotched New Jersey's plan to start a similar program.

You nearly scotched the mutiny before it started, is how the story goes."

Just four years ago, the kill was scotched by 567,000 gallons of Exxon heating oil.

I could have scotched the business days ago!

"You've spoiled my trap that would have scotched them at the start.

And until Microsoft scotched the idea recently, there was even talk of making Windows free.

By the 24th or 25th miles, they should be scotched.

The remnants of belief have been scotched by his mordant university learning.

Astronomy, by showing that Heaven was mostly empty space, scotched this idea.

Their honeymoon plans, hazy before the disaster, were scotched in its wake.

Two summers in a row, his assignment to Saturn had been scotched at the last minute.

There are, however, some myths that have grown over the years that need to be scotched.

Deals have been scotched because of improvements and decor not to the buyer's taste.

All these plans were scotched by the auction.

He was scotched on the corner of his big desk, fingering a yellow pencil.

At the anarchic international level, war crimes prosecutions are more likely to be scotched in the name of peace.