Stonewall

Definition

stonewall /stǝƱn'wↄ:l/ v ( infml esp Brit ) (ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲပ်က္ျပား ေအာင္ လီွးလႊဲေျဖျခင္း၊ ေဝ့လည္ေၾကာင္ပတ္လုပ္ျခင္းတို႔ျဖင့္) ကဖ်က္ယဖ်က္လုပ္သည္။ a deliberate attempt to stonewall (the debate).

Examples

1. ‘The letter asserted that the board had stonewalled the waiting-list members.’
2. ‘But when state prosecutors stonewalled the case
3. the Justice Department flatly refused to bring charges.’
4. ‘I don't have experience with the government stonewalling me at all.’
5. ‘I was trying to explain to them that I needed the money but they were stonewalling me.’
6. ‘All questions were to be stonewalled
7. on the logical grounds that any comment would prejudice the judicial inquiry set to be announced by the Ministry of Defence.’
8. ‘If you try to phone them
9. the line may go dead; if you get through you are stonewalled.’
10. ‘But even a good question can be stonewalled or sidestepped.’
11. ‘For six days the company has stonewalled customers and the press with vague explanations or
12. worse
13. no explanation at all.’
14. ‘I can't tell for sure
15. but it seems like my dad is stonewalling my mom's lawyers by not responding to letters.’
16. ‘This allows the airline to stonewall the workers' demands for improved living standards while amassing profits.’
17. ‘The bankers refused to give an inch and just stonewalled us.’
18. ‘The White House is going to pay a heavy political price for the months it spent denying and stonewalling the problem.’
19. ‘They seem to have made a decision to stonewall me in the hopes that I will simply go away.’
20. ‘They just don't want to know and they don't care
21. they stonewall us.’
22. ‘This went on four times
23. with Wallace getting more desperate as he believed Bill was stonewalling him.’
24. ‘When she confronted Don
25. he stonewalled her and limited her access to the business records.’
26. ‘The hospital stonewalled Turner
27. the website had no news.’
28. ‘That hasn't stopped him from trying to market his album
29. even if commercial radio stations have been stonewalling him.’
30. ‘By acknowledging nothing
31. denying everything and stonewalling every investigation
32. we are all therefore complicit in a war crime of unprecedented gravity.’
33. ‘Each and every time I'd try to arrange a meeting
34. she'd stonewall me.’