Sentence examples for stall the proceedings from inspiring English sources

Republicans have also criticized Mr. Clinton for what they believe is an effort to stall the proceedings until next year, when Republicans will hold an even slimmer majority.

Republicans said they saw the White House move as an effort to stall the proceedings until January, when a new Congress, with five more Democrats, convenes.

Republicans said they saw the White House move as an effort to stall the proceedings until January, when a new Congress convenes in which their House majority will be trimmed by half, to only six votes.

More important, a repeated shift in tone could stall the proceedings (certainly, Gandolfini's and Monteith's deaths were tragic in their untimeliness).

In this latest effort to stall the proceedings, the Justice Department said that doing so would help conserve judicial resources, an argument the judge dismissed as "galling".

Choking and thrashing stalled the proceedings; the court could do nothing but wait for the girls to recover.

In the House, a group of seven Democrats who are members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition have stalled the proceedings of the Energy and Commerce Committee, the last of three House panels needed to approve the bill.

When the university decided to proceed from an inquiry to a formal investigation, Poehlman fought back, seeking an injunction from Judge William K. Sessions against UVM and stalling the proceedings for several months.

Greenwoods Associates, the company run by Ms. Cavanagh and Mr. Smithies that owns the theater, filed for bankruptcy to stall the foreclosure proceedings, but the bankruptcy was dismissed last year by a judge.

It's not totally clear why Depp has stalled the divorce proceedings, but The Daily Mail reports that a breach in confidentiality might be the cause.

"Regardless of how it plays out, Allen is going to have his day in court," Claypool said, adding that the city was stalling the administrative proceedings.