He just concentrated on how to sabotage my attempts to professionalise the newspaper.

The governors and generals who wanted to make themselves independent sabotaged every decree of the central government; especially they sent it no money from the provinces and also refused to give their assent to foreign loans.

After eight hours of work on the spacecraft and with dinner behind them, Joe said to Mark, "Let's go back into the power plant and see if we can't find some way to sabotage the system so that the pirates can't find us when we take off.