stonewall
Example Sentences
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"At the time I thought it was a stonewall penalty," said Hourihane.
From BBC
Glassman said the decision to file a lawsuit came after Cosmo’s parents were “stonewalled” by the school’s insurance company, and they were unable to reach a resolution.
From Los Angeles Times
Her bio-father, Kwangho, meanwhile, spent five years searching for her whereabouts, being stonewalled by bureaucracy and finally finding a sympathetic insider to leak the information that led to his daughter.
Both the army and the RSF have previously stonewalled negotiations brokered by the US and Saudi Arabia.
From Barron's
Lawyers for Kahn and Indyke said they hadn’t stonewalled discovery requests and have turned over hundreds of thousands of pages to private plaintiffs.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
