Sentence examples for kind of gridlock from inspiring English sources

At that stage, they were merely threatening the kind of gridlock that they have gone on to execute.

The city in second with the worst rush hours is Washington, which apparently experiences more than one kind of gridlock, followed by San Francisco and then Seattle.

Far from being an isolated case, this kind of gridlock has been Albany's chronic affliction for more than a decade, through Democratic and Republican governors.

Mr. Obama characterized the last few months in Washington as the "worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock," which he said had "made things worse instead of better".

And that is close to the kind of gridlock that the nation has had over the last six years and that many Wall Street analysts say is the best for both stocks and the economy.

Several lobbyists, lawmakers and government watchdog groups immediately praised Mr. Bruno's move as a valid strategy for solving problems in the State Capitol and addressing the kind of gridlock that has led to a 20-year record of failing to pass a state budget on time.

In place of his legislative program, Mr. McGreevey used the vast powers conferred on New Jersey governors by the 1947 Constitutional Convention, perhaps because the delegates foresaw even then that the state was headed for some kind of governance gridlock.

It is a kind of intentional gridlock.

Independent voters also largely disapprove of the tactic, perhaps viewing it as another example of the kind of Washington gridlock that has soured them on the political establishment.

While I tried to understand what set off my sons' worries, I came to see their anxious phases as a kind of developmental gridlock.

The political analyst Kevin Phillips usefully points out there are two kinds of government gridlock: There is the gridlock the financial markets like -- benign gridlock -- in which the Republicans are blocked from implementing their most extreme tax cuts and Democrats their most excessive spending.