Sentence examples for filibuster by from inspiring English sources

Mr. Domenici calls it "filibuster by amendment".

— to the outrageous abuse of the filibuster by Senate Republicans.

The measure failed by one vote in a September filibuster by Republicans.

The poems anticipate death but hold it off — they filibuster — by transfiguring it into comic forms.

John Brennan, the C.I.A. director, was the subject of an epic filibuster by Senator Rand Paul.

The filibuster, by far the longest in Senate history, was a cozy & often rather jolly affair.

It remains the longest filibuster by an American politician in a state legislature or in Congress.

It would also have to avoid a filibuster by Republicans in the Senate.

In May, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, was furious at yet another obstructionist filibuster by Senate Republicans.

Republicans needed to use those procedures to enact their tax cuts, in order to overcome a Senate filibuster by Democrats.

The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster, by James Grant Simonn & Schuster, $28).