stonewall
石墙,石头墙,石壁,石牆
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : to engage in stonewalling.
- : British. filibuster.
- : Cricket. to play a defensive game, as by persistently blocking the ball instead of batting it for distance and runs.
- 1
- : Informal. to block, stall, or resist intentionally: lobbying efforts to stonewall passage of the legislation.
- : British. to obstruct in Parliament, especially by excessive or prolonged debate.
- 1
- : pertaining to or characteristic of stonewalling: a new round of stonewall tactics.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
They are going to stonewall and drag this process out hoping New Yorkers aren’t paying attention so partisan legislators can draw their own maps.
Leadership concerns continued to fester that year after the university hired a marketing executive from Michigan State University who state prosecutors say was part of an effort to stonewall an investigation into disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar.
You can’t stonewall the Nets’ offense, so I think it would make more sense to try to cause havoc and force turnovers, and Giannis is one of the best at that in the league.
Sanders says he has been stonewalled from receiving vital documents and information that could shed more light, such as police radio transmissions from that day.
Hospital officials stonewalled interview requests and refused to answer dozens of questions.
His nickname, given to him at the Battle of Gettysburg and which he kept for the rest of his life, was Stonewall Jim.
Excerpted from Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S.C. Gwynne.
The video makes clear the struggle for marriage equality in the context of the wider post-Stonewall gay civil rights movement.
By then, a revolution had begun with the 1969 riot at the mob-owned Stonewall Inn in New York.
Transgender people played an integral role at Stonewall, and we are due respect in our own extended community.
Their soldiers' confidence in Jackson and Lee doubled the effective strength of their armies.