Sentence examples for gridlock us from inspiring English sources

If we operated by end-state principles of justice (Nozick 1974), we would need to justify every move that bore on how goods would be distributed in the evolving end-state, which is to say we would need to justify virtually every trade we contemplate, which would gridlock us rather than facilitate our inventing ever more clever ways of making ourselves more valuable to the people around us.

In my last update I vented about how political gridlock got us here and threatens to keep us here.

It's held up as proof not just of my own flaws — of which there are many — but also as proof that the vision itself is misguided, and naïve, and that there are too many people in this town who actually benefit from partisanship and gridlock for us to ever do anything about it.

This is how solidarity against concentrated power can finally free us from the gridlock demons that haunt us.

We want to get from here to there in a New York minute and moan about the subways and the buses, about lunatic taxi drivers and the gridlock that slows us down.

"Give us policy gridlock".

Many transport commentators are relying on national road pricing to deliver us from gridlock.

And even though the effects of the Great Recession are still with us, political gridlock seems set to continue.

It is those of us in gridlock, waiting for red to turn green half a mile away, who know the true meaning of rage.

"I think this would be a real boost towards ending the gridlock which has bedeviled us," said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat.

Eight years later, that hope has been tested – by the cost of war; by one of the worst economic crises in history; and by political gridlock that's left us wondering whether it's still possible to tackle the challenges of our time.