stonewall

They dissemble and they stonewall the press, and they do every time.

He asked again for similar accommodations this year but said the county stonewalled the request, leading him to sue the L.A.

Still, the wives’ and relatives’ calls to bring mobilized reservists home have been stonewalled by Russia’s government-controlled media, and some pro-Kremlin politicians have sought to cast them as Western stooges.

They said it would mean other parents would not face the "agonising experience of being stonewalled by tech companies".

He enjoyed the process of arranging songs, for example, and was good at it, but was stonewalled when he tried to participate.