logjam

How To Use logjam In A Sentence

• One reason for the easing in the logjam was the Senate's traditional desire to dispense with blocs of nominees shortly before adjourning for recess, which the Senate did in the early hours of Friday morning. Federal Posts Fill Up Amid Senate Thaw
• To get around logjams, around dams and around shallow places, they unload their gear and carry the boat to the next put-in; then they backtrack to get the gear.
• Suddenly, he felt as if a logjam had broken free and was rushing into open water. INCA GOLD
• The logjam is occurring because of increased demand on the global communications network.
• It is profoundly unlikely that any short-term means can be found to break the logjam.
• Although this step does break the logjam to some extent, it is not exactly a huge breakthrough in and of itself.
• So, fixing a short-term logjam by sending Saunders to the minors -- undoubtedly the plan when spring training ended -- won't be so easy if he's producing. The Seattle Times
• After the president's midterms humbling, the US media envision horse trading, vetoes – and a legislative logjam Barack Obama facing two years of political gridlock
• The copayments, user fees, information barriers, and bureaucratic logjams that impair access, especially by the poor, must be eliminated.
• Vicki Goode of Boyle County, Ky., had voted for Obama as well, and said she felt disappointed by his first two years in office and by what she characterized as a legislative logjam in Washington. SFGate: Top News Stories