stonewall
Example Sentences
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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.
On a series in the second quarter, he limited a swing pass to Isaac Guerendo to a one-yard gain, then stonewalled the 49ers running back at the line of scrimmage on the next play.
From Los Angeles Times
Ms Brownlie said "that makes it more frustrating" when her requests through the formal processes have been "stonewalled".
From BBC
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