Sentence examples for stymied over from inspiring English sources

In each case, the mayor's ambitious social policies became stymied over questions of procedure and authority.

Those negotiations have been stymied over a tax issue that requires resolution from the Internal Revenue Service, those people said.

If the past is any guide, the two sides are stymied over difficult issues like settlements and borders.

Less generous, the Barclays bid would also be much simpler, were it not stymied over a side-deal: the sale of LaSalle, ABN AMRO's Chicago subsidiary, to Bank of America.

Even Mr. Pataki's fellow Republicans are stymied over the budget, attracted to its political theme of fiscal conservatism but worrying that it will be overly harsh on their constituents.

But with City not interested in playing him, with Argentine clubs too broke to pay his kind of wages, and with his wish to join A.C. Milan stymied over the Italian club's lacking the means to buy out his contract, he might soon have no other place to play.

He had pitched on six days' rest this season once before, on May 6, when he stymied Philadelphia over seven shutout innings.

The issue of whether government money should be used to pay for abortions was steeped in the politics of the late 1970's and the Reagan era, when the anti-abortion movement had a friend in the White House but remained stymied on its over-arching goal, a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.

Congress has been stymied for years over how to regulate managed health care, in particular over how to hold H.M.O.'s accountable for faulty decisions about treatment.

Sabathia, who stymied the Angels over eight innings in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, welcomes another opportunity.

Unfortunately, reconnection research has been stymied for decades over the physics of the process and how fast it can occur.