Sentence examples for gridlock around from inspiring English sources

Gridlock around Johannesburg left Soccer City with thousands of empty seats for the opening ceremony.

At a stroke you do away with the 9am and 3pm gridlock around schools, cutting emissions... the list goes on.

"We can't let political gridlock around the budget stand in the way of other areas where we can make progress," Mr. Obama said.

But the Cambridge historian is most passionate when he gets on to talking about the need to end the gridlock around one of Britain's main tourist attractions.

Will it help reshape a raw Queens neighborhood, known for its factories and warehouses and the gridlock around the Queensboro Bridge, into the next SoHo or TriBeCa?

The result was gridlock around the ground more than three hours before the kick-off, caused by road closures and the largest attendance ever here.

Transport for London estimated that about 4,000 drivers had taken part and roads were gridlocked around Parliament Square, Whitehall and Trafalgar Square.

Obama has indicated that he will use executive actions as a way around gridlock.

So discussion of budget gridlock often revolves around whetherPresident Obama plays as effectively as his predecessors.

The case, to be argued Monday, is the latest example of an increasingly familiar Washington clash: The Obama administration uses executive authority to get around gridlock on Capitol Hill in pushing its agenda, then Republicans accuse the president of acting lawlessly in pursuit of progressive policies.

"I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock.