Sentence examples for growing gridlock from inspiring English sources

But with gas prices likely to top $3 a gallon and growing gridlock in our cities, could the time be right for a radically downsized car?

It pitted suburban Ford supporters, who rely on their cars to commute and are aggravated by surface rail lines and bike lanes, against Tory supporters who favour more public transit to deal with growing gridlock that by one estimate costs the city C$6 billion (US$5.4 billion) in lost productivity.

Amid growing gridlock on Capitol Hill, Democratic and Republican presidents alike have relied upon recess appointments that don't require Senate confirmation in order to keep the board functioning in recent years.

In his much-quoted report, Eddington recommended three transport priorities to deal with familiar themes – a growing city, traffic gridlock and a need for an alternative to the West Gate Bridge.

After weeks of dithering as a deadline for the federal grant neared and then expired, Mr. Silver has now ensured the uncertain future of an already strained mass transit system and the continued growing problems of gridlock and tailpipe emissions.

Meanwhile, the rich get richer and government grows increasingly gridlocked as money drives politics.

The middle class is beleaguered; inequality is growing; government is gridlocked; politics is increasingly polarised and the superpower is in a funk about its global decline.

We get gridlock.

In an editorial earlier this month the Toronto Star, the city's biggest newspaper, bemoaned growing social inequality, worsening gridlock, a deteriorating transport system and rising taxes.

While the vast majority of Greeks agree that austerity is self-defeating, there is a growing sense that the gridlock in talks is also counter-productive.

The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index of large American companies fell as much as 6 percent in the eight trading days after the Nov. 6 presidential elections as investors began to focus on the small but growing possibility that continued gridlock in Washington would produce no deal to prevent the fiscal cliff measures.