Sentence examples for a log jam from inspiring English sources

Above the CRSD, drastic reductions in core permeability occur due to a log jam, or bridging effect, at the pore constriction.

One serious problem Mr. James foresaw was the pos sibility of a log jam when a number of young men reach the top at a relatively young age.

The same can't be said for the American League, where that fifth available playoff slot has created a log jam of teams vying to reach the postseason.

This lack of transparency is compounded by a log jam in many areas of government, from payment of salaries to rubbish collection and confusion over who has control of Libya's security forces.

To get in, I had stepped over the heavy footprints of a grizzly bear and her cub, and pushed through a log jam where a beaver was building its nest.

Mr. Dowling has been the plant director at the Augusta Civic Center for nearly a quarter-century, but he still remembers the mill's 4 o'clock whistle, and the hangout run by Alice, who would cash your check so you could have a beer before heading home, and the mill worker who was crushed to death while trying to loosen a log jam.

British politics appears to be at a log-jam.

According to David Cowling, editor of the BBC's political research unit, opinion polls suggest a log-jam in UK politics.

But what happens when there is a multiple pile-up on the M1, no acute beds and a log-jam of patients stacked up in casualty?

On one page alone, memories billow up "like genii," words make a "log-jam" in Fido's throat and "years fall away like planks splintering".

This ongoing problem with late proposal submissions creates a "log-jam" that jeopardizes SPO's ability to transmit to funding agencies those applications that have been submitted on time.