Sentence examples for gridlock from from inspiring English sources

The city's biggest transit challenge, they argue, is not beautifying in-town neighborhoods but reducing gridlock from the suburbs.

Being so distant politically from the mainstream of the body politic ensures that a Kerry-Edwards administration would be mired in legislative gridlock from the start.

But with the number of cars on the road here continuing to rise (and almost seven million commuters already on the road each day during the rush in the metro area), even the system's boosters admit that it may not be enough to prevent gridlock from growing worse.

"Unless there's gridlock from divided government," said Milton Friedman, the Nobel laureate economist at the Hoover Institution, "the fundamental fact is that Congress will spend as much as the tax system will raise plus as much more as it can get away with in the form of a deficit.

A computer malfunction at a traffic-signal control center in Long Island City, Queens, that had caused serious signal problems Tuesday night along dozens of blocks of the West Side continued into the morning rush, creating pockets of gridlock from East Harlem to Chelsea.

However any reforms could face a system of "gridlock" from the religious establishment, explains the BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson.

"It was effectively gridlocked from 11.30am onwards.

The President was in town and New York was gridlocked from the Bronx to Battery Park.

In 1890, on London's first May Day march, the capital was gridlocked from dawn as more than 200,000 dockers, gasworkers, and radicals processed from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park.

"The presidential public financing system and the EAC are important components of an honest and fair election system that suffer from congressional neglect and gridlock, not from any inherent flaw".

After years of diplomatic gridlock, Cypriots from both sides will be slow to get their hopes up.