gridlock
Example Sentences
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In response, the European Union crafted a counterproposal more acceptable to Ukraine, and its member states are rushing to rearm as the bloc looks for ways to break its institutional gridlock.
A previous dress rehearsal highlighted the need for a new traffic light at a specific location to alleviate gridlock when military convoys move across the country.
Concern about health care costs helped break that gridlock, and that holds a broader bipartisan lesson.
From Scientific American
"Anyone who has looked at the institutionalised gridlock in US politics can see the utter stupidity it would be to create an elected upper house," he said.
From BBC
“It was painful because we had no control over it,” he says of the summer-long gridlock.
From Los Angeles Times
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