Sentence examples for stonewalled from inspiring English sources

"I became increasingly aware that this was being stonewalled".

Gorbachev stonewalled, claiming that he was not aware of any such donation.

They stonewalled him, according to internal company correspondence reviewed by The Economist.Mr Woodford alerted Olympus's auditors, commissioned a review by an outside forensic-accounting group and asked for the resignations of Mr Kikukawa and an associate.

Six years earlier listeners had asked him to investigate; he went to court after being stonewalled.

The army has stonewalled inquiries into protest-related deaths.

But when senators asked for details about the breadth of NSA surveillance, they were stonewalled by the administration.

The president's heart is in the right place, a string of supporters argued: he is just being stonewalled by opponents.Mr Obama's whole bus tour was in friendly territory.

The chancellor, who wants to present his assessment on his own terms, stonewalled his way through the session.

Thus far, the government has stonewalled, essentially refusing to comply.

Europeans stonewalled not just over bananas, but also over rulings on hormone-treated beef.More generally, the rich world is not offering developing countries a model of how to implement a rule-based international trading system.

The government of the day stonewalled Conan Doyle and thousands of petitioners.