Sentence examples for stalled action from inspiring English sources

They've stalled action with a campaign of deliberate misinformation.

A disagreement over how to apportion agency revenues equitably deadlocked the authority's 12-member board of commissioners and stalled action on major projects for more than a year.

Even though Ms. Quinn passed a Council bill to provide paid sick leave, she stalled action on the measure for so long that she was widely viewed as an opponent, which hurt her credibility as a fighter for women.

The impasse has stalled action on a lease for the Maersk Sealand shipping terminal at Port Newark-Elizabeth, which Mrs. Whitman says would keep jobs in New York and New Jersey and help the port remain the biggest on the East Coast.

The conference lasted five months and moved by fits and starts, as Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the chairman of the Senate committee that deals with education, stalled action until the additional spending he regarded as a minimum had been assured.

The White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, led a hastily called three-hour negotiating session at the Capitol with conservative Blue Dog Democrats, the group of fiscal hawks who have stalled action on the health care bill in the House.

Although the UN climate talks are stalled, actions government and corporate actions taken in the name of "climate change mitigation" will indeed put the world's remaining forests and other ecosystems under unprecedented pressure, this during a century when climate change is already seen to cause a first wave of forest die-back.

The legislature's rules allow any three members to stall action for months with filibusters.

But now the Democratic majority in the Assembly, with an eye on the same election, is trying to stall action.

By stalling action on a new inspection system, they could indefinitely postpone any resolution of the Iraq crisis.

Senate Democrats expressed confidence that they had the upper hand politically, and they asserted that Republicans were stalling action on an issue popular with voters.