stonewall

The administration’s attempt to stonewall Alcaraz’s family comes as no surprise.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Those that stonewall or improvise under pressure prolong the damage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

"You want to be able to nail someone down and pinpoint who it is that's basically saying, 'We're getting the planes up in the air, and just stonewall the judge,'" Prof Tsai said.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2025

“An avoidant person often doesn’t know when their nervous system is ignited,” says Abito, so they need to figure out their triggers and what happens in their body before they stonewall and shut down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Several were sitting back on their haunches, their claws scraping at the chalky stonewall that flanked the waterfall.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

And then, when Tim stonewalls him about stealing a gun, Gaitok doesn’t respond with the obvious “dude, there’s video.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2025

Sections of historic stonewalls that line roads and mark property boundaries remain.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020

Bosch finds out, but when he tries to report his findings, the billionaire’s staff stonewalls him.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2016

Bread Loaf was a postcard of open green fields, snaking stonewalls, an old barn and inn, painted in Marblehead gold.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 5, 2016

I look beneath the stonewalls, where the verdure is richest, in hopes that a little company of violets, or some solitary bud, prophetic of the summer, may be there.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Opponents have also written to MPs in which they accuse the backers of the bill of having "stonewalled or rejected nearly every attempt to amend or improve" it.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

“Harvard sued us. Harvard stonewalled us on document requests to which we were entitled. Harvard is defiant. And they’ve wasted time with settlement negotiations that I believe were not in good faith.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Murphy, who sits in Massachusetts, did not merely rule against the policy; he also documented the many ways that government officials lied, stonewalled, and disobeyed court orders throughout the litigation.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026

Both the army and the RSF have previously stonewalled negotiations brokered by the US and Saudi Arabia.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

If no one would answer her questions, she would do what she’d always done when people she cared about stonewalled her: She’d lose herself in art.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

The team also struggles with stonewalling from social media sites and chronic shortages of staff and funds.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

A lawsuit accuses the Justice Department and Todd Blanche of stonewalling the state’s investigation into activities at Zorro Ranch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The Madison Collection had been stonewalling these efforts for months, according to the lawsuit, refusing to turn over books and bank accounts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Social media fervor against the brand has died down as well, though the union battle continues to dog the company, with organisers accusing Niccol of stonewalling contract talks.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

It’s a tense moment, with Marge prying and Holly just as rudely stonewalling, but Holly, as team leader, prevails.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich