stonewall
Example Sentences
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The sheriff, Bonta said, “has delayed, stonewalled, and otherwise refused to work with us in good faith” and failed to provide most of the requested documents.
From Los Angeles Times
Kimberly would later become a powerful champion of parents who felt stonewalled and "lied to" by the authorities.
From BBC
"At the time I thought it was a stonewall penalty," said Hourihane.
From BBC
Glassman said the decision to file a lawsuit came after Cosmo’s parents were “stonewalled” by the school’s insurance company, and they were unable to reach a resolution.
From Los Angeles Times
Her bio-father, Kwangho, meanwhile, spent five years searching for her whereabouts, being stonewalled by bureaucracy and finally finding a sympathetic insider to leak the information that led to his daughter.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
