How To Use Stonewalling In A Sentence
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Government stonewalling and a dysfunctional justice system also jeopardized the case.
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The players themselves are responsible for the stonewalling in their game.
Times, Sunday Times
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Secretary Small and Deputy Secretary Burke have exhibited a head-in-the-sand attitude toward wrongdoing at their agency; they have engaged in stonewalling and spin rather than dealing forthrightly with the discrimination that has occurred.
Another Government Report Supports Sternberg
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I don't have experience with the government stonewalling me at all.
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To compare that kind of long-term stonewalling, ignorance, and denial to the immediate actions you and/or Dr Hunter seem to expect from people like Steve and Hans is ridiculous.
Blogs on Barton Letters « Climate Audit
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The theory will steamroll over subtle distinctions between candour and honesty, tact and politeness, reticence and stonewalling.
The Times Literary Supplement
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DOBBS: Having until this point though showed no signs, even after two Democratic senators, two highly respected Democratic senators, Senator Coleman and Senator Levin, both wrote protesting what they called the stonewalling of the United Nations.
CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2004
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I can't tell for sure, but it seems like my dad is stonewalling my mom's lawyers by not responding to letters.
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The majority of the Amphitheater School District governing board reeks with corruption, arrogance, conflicts of interest and blatant stonewalling.
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We're hearing that the real stonewalling is coming from you guys and not Obama ... why are you not ready to talk about a negotiated settlement?
Clinton Conference Call, 3/21/08 - Swampland - TIME.com
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Complaints to local police resulted in definite stonewalling, so a complaint to county HQ brought an initial assesment by an inspector.
A Sign Of The Times. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The majority of the Amphitheater School District governing board reeks with corruption, arrogance, conflicts of interest and blatant stonewalling.
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I am deeply ashamed of my own university for this craven stonewalling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The interviewer accused the minister of stonewalling on the issue of tax increases.
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The administration is just stonewalling in an attempt to hide their political embarrassment.
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Earlier I noted that Bush's 1970's service record is less important than what he is doing today, for example, in stonewalling and hampering the 9/11 Commission's work.
Balkinization
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The administration is just stonewalling in an attempt to hide their political embarrassment.
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By acknowledging nothing, denying everything and stonewalling every investigation, we are all therefore complicit in a war crime of unprecedented gravity.
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The administration is just stonewalling in an attempt to hide their political embarrassment.
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The White House is going to pay a heavy political price for the months it spent denying and stonewalling the problem.
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This matters to the outside world because Ahmadinejad has been as adept in stonewalling inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency as he has been in confounding journalists.
Iran's Ahmadinejad, Information Pariah
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I was trying to explain to them that I needed the money but they were stonewalling me.
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Lazio's stonewalling is even more insulting when you consider that he promised to make his tax returns public!" said Charlie King, the executive director of the state Democratic Party, in a June statement.
Playing Chicken on Tax Returns
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And when he finally appeared, he blustered and brayed, losing none of the stonewalling qualities that had marked his time in politics.
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The administration is just stonewalling in an attempt to hide their political embarrassment.
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This went on four times, with Wallace getting more desperate as he believed Bill was stonewalling him.
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But nevertheless, stonewalling is not just a Republican thing.
Matthew Yglesias » Stimulus Hypocrisy
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Pureeing their own research with published sources, Mr. Summers and Ms. Swan confect a circumstantial case involving protection money paid by members of the huge royal family to keep bin Laden's terrorism outside the kingdom's borders, intercession by Saudi cultural agents—likely spies—to help two of the hijackers in California, and stonewalling by Saudi intelligence after the attacks.
A Decade After
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The theory will steamroll over subtle distinctions between candour and honesty, tact and politeness, reticence and stonewalling.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The company is the target of several class-action lawsuits, and cites this as an excuse for stonewalling.
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And when he finally appeared, he blustered and brayed, losing none of the stonewalling qualities that had marked his time in politics.
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Major, I don't suppose you're familiar with the term 'stonewalling'?
Betrayal
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That hasn't stopped him from trying to market his album, even if commercial radio stations have been stonewalling him.
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Fame has been born from frustration; popular art spawned by bureaucratic stonewalling.
Times, Sunday Times
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The debate over the park reached its climax during the Nov. 4 meeting with Tarantolo, the main advocate for the project, at times chastising the council for what he described as stonewalling him.
Atlanticville
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Yet this apparent stonewalling has exasperated the Hong Kong press, which portrays her as imperious and arrogant.
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I kept that promise, but since then it has just been stonewalling and nothing.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a move anticipated for several months, the state of California has decertified all touch-screen voting machines due to security snafus and vendor stonewalling.
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When an author has agreed to do an interview, the journalist assumes the publicist is stonewalling when the interview is not scheduled.) Instead, a polite way for you to respond to an interview query if you’re an author is to ask for more information, but remain noncommittal with, Thanks for your interest.
2010 January « The Book Publicity Blog
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The only difference between his stonewalling of Lebanon and the way he let New Orleans drown is that he has put away the banjo this summer, at least in public view.
Juan Cole on the Misnomer of "Islamic Fascism"
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Contempt, defensiveness, criticism and stonewalling are the four guaranteed destroyers, by the way.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite its denials and stonewalling, damning evidence has come to light implicating it in the deaths.
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Stonewalling may be a natural reaction.
Times, Sunday Times
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The interviewer accused the minister of stonewalling on the issue of tax increases.
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Stonewalling - refusing to answer any confrontational questions and staying silent in difficult situations.
The Sun
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At the moment it's just frustration and stonewalling all round.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now, amidst all the stonewalling and foot-dragging and character assassination I guess this matter won't get top-billing.
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Three years of repeated contradictions, distortions, and stonewalling from this Administration has worn-out public trustless.
The Credibility Gap
