stonewall

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

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

But Kornev is young and infused with an idealistic zeal, refusing to let these goons stonewall him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that seeks to stonewall the project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

State media has said little about Mr Hui being put under police surveillance, and the foreign ministry appeared to stonewall questions on the subject from reporters at its daily briefing on Thursday.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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

Not when Lawson blows past Becton, and not when Becton stonewalls Lawson.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2021

Storytelling, jokes and stonewalls make this section feel like Ireland, not ancient Greece.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2017

The high mountain meadows full of their own wilting flowers, the peaks disappearing in clouds, rain beginning to fall in planets, the stonewalls in their majesty marking out this hallowed piece of land.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 5, 2016

From stonewalls, fences, trees and haylofts, the Americans had picked off the British redcoats as they retreated back to Boston, and had proved themselves to be foemen that could not be despised.

From A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by Clayton Edwards

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

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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

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

After stonewalling every adult who tells him to open up, Robby does just that with an orphaned infant, saying that he, too, was abandoned by his mother as a child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

The incident was unexpected — shocking, even — because for at least two decades, Belichick was the master of stonewalling reporters, steering interviews and giving snarky responses to questions he didn’t appreciate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025

Litigation of this stonewalling reached the California Supreme Court, which USA Swimming asked to vacate discovery orders.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024

He has found that he can find out much of what he needs to know just by focusing on what he calls the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell