How To Use Gridlock In A Sentence
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The film is a picaresque ramble through a half-real Rome in which gridlocked cars are turned into living spaces; cardinals, monsignors and fawning aristocrats preside over Vatican fashion shows; and the district of Trastevere becomes a huge fairground teeming with local characters, guitar-strumming hippies, uniformed carabinieri.
Finding Fellini
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People feared the development would cause traffic gridlock and claimed noisy fans would make their lives a misery.
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Short-term gridlock is very bad for the outlook," Bank of America analysts say in a report on the election.
Analysts Expect 'Massive Gridlock And Little Cooperation' After Election
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This issue is simply too important to give in to gridlock and to accept inaction.
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I do agree that the president needs to step forward and lead on this issue because right now congress is kind of gridlocked on this thing, but let's remember he doesn't need Republican votes.
CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2009
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Bath Road is gridlocked at most times of the day and this development would add to the congestion.
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The tidal wave of public spending has delivered some better roads, but it has not eased the gridlock that grips the capital city and, increasingly, tightens a noose around towns and cities around the country.
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BLITZER: You know, some would argue, Jeff, that the framers of the constitution liked the idea of these -- what we call checks and balances, what others simply suggest is gridlock.
CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2007
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A number of ideas are being looked at by Colchester Council to bring an end to rush-hour gridlock.
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A meeting was convened to discuss possible ways to prevent total gridlock.
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Months of political gridlock have taken the shine off of Chen's victory.
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A committee of 20 acting as an executive is simply a formula gridlock.
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It recently launched a program to cull the academic community for new technologies that will help ease the gridlock.
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Wall Street likes legislative gridlock because politicians cannot apply their financial ideas.
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Although the word "gridlock" is vintage New Yorkese, only Washington could take the word and give it an entirely different meaning, as in "political gridlock," which is what happens when little gets done.
John B. Townsend II: Gridlocked: Staring at Brake Lights and Holding First Place
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That, and about $2.50 will get you a fair cup of coffee in a greasy spoon restaurant, and nothing more, so long as the GOP thinks "gridlocked" is the only kind of congress in which they care to partake.
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But negotiations with the ISPs became gridlocked when the providers called the proposals unworkable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, the House of Representatives continues to be gridlocked with the Senate on the Charter change issue as congressmen continue to push for a resolution for a constituent assembly.
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Thousands of vehicles are caught in a daily gridlock whose tentacles spread across southeast London and into Kent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Drivers also avoided the dreaded gridlock by leaving home earlier than normal.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's the only sign of progress in the protracted battle against the besetting gridlock that bedevils our bodies, minds, souls, and psyches day-in and day-out.
John B. Townsend II: Gridlocked: Staring at Brake Lights and Holding First Place
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Higher density means fewer long commutes, which helps gridlock problems and is good for the environment.
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DRIVING is a daily grind on gridlocked roads.
The Sun
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As majority leader in the Senate, Eland said, Dole was partly to blame for the gridlock in Washington.
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The streets are wedged solid with near-constant traffic gridlock.
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But Fontaine was also slowed by the gridlock created by internal Liberal Party machinations.
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Ministers fear traffic gridlock next week as temperatures will be too low for salt on the roads to be of any use.
The Sun
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—President Barack Obama returned to Western Michigan Thursday for the second time in little more than a year to give his most full-throated defense of job-growth initiatives amid a faltering economy and political gridlock in Washington.
Obama Defends Job Initiatives
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All the roads were gritted, but the problems began when everyone decided to go home early - causing gridlocks.
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The A1237 fails in that too many roads feed into it causing gridlock at peak times.
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As well as trying taxpayers' patience, the worsening gridlock is costing big money.
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It could see major roads and arteries into the city gridlocked as hundreds of lorries are stopped from accessing the docks.
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Thousands of vehicles are caught in a daily gridlock whose tentacles spread across southeast London and into Kent.
Times, Sunday Times
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A virtual gridlock exists around this area between 4.30 pm and 6.30 pm.
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Add the astonishing price in human lives that we pay for our automobility—they kill the equivalent of a dozen jumbo-jet crashes every day—plus the countless number of hours we waste in gridlock traffic commuting to work, running errands, picking up our kids, and searching for parking, and we can't help but ask: Haven't we had enough already?
Autophobia
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How else can we deal with the looming threat of climate change and gridlock on the roads?
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York's traffic was plunged into rush-hour gridlock again as half-term holidaymakers joined commuters on the congested roads.
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But since then Csikszentmihalyi’s theory seems to have lost traction, so I was intrigued to hear my Turkish friend (in gridlocked traffic that was the antithesis of flow!) update me on a couple of recent studies (copies of which he subsequently sent me) that have rehabilitated the notion of flow.
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The vote left the House and Senate gridlocked over the issue.
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And if the two chambers have a different political make-up, that could lead to gridlock.
The Sun
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But the times and increasing traffic gridlock are changing LA.
Times, Sunday Times
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A car breaking down at rush hour could cause gridlock across half the city.
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The United States faces years of indecisive government, with Washington paralysed by score-settling and legislative gridlock.
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The battle over spending led to gridlock.
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If the Clintons are a part of the colluding elites who enjoy personal advancement within the gridlock, then I hope they get countervailed along with the rest of the old establishment.
Clinton 'Advisor': Obama Is For People Who Want "Imaginary Hip Black Friend"
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The streets are wedged solid with near-constant traffic gridlock.
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Mr Weston said: ‘It was total gridlock and we're determined it won't happen again.’
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But he is up to his neck in it right now, and potentially faces years of policy gridlock in city hall.
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GAME chiefs were blasted as'irresponsible' yesterday after a publicity stunt caused gridlock during rush hour.
The Sun
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Emotional disengagement is often a later stage of continued gridlock.
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The capital's roads were left gridlocked and buses and mainline rail services were overwhelmed.
The Sun
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The capital's roads were left gridlocked and buses and mainline rail services were overwhelmed.
The Sun
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So, at worst, a bitter contest could merely reinforce the gridlock, with a re-elected, more leftish Comrade Obama pitted against a still more intransigent Republican Congress.
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It recently launched a program to cull the academic community for new technologies that will help ease the gridlock.
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And he adds that he doesn't think there's anybody in the race who can bring new people into the process and break out of what he calls ideological gridlock as effectively as he can.
CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2007
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The car keeps London gridlocked into a dysfunctional twentieth century, lending support for Ballard's view that it is the suburbs, not the metropolises, which are the harbingers of the future.
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Traffic hold-ups reached a peak on Thursday when Cumbria police dispatched officers after receiving calls reporting ‘complete gridlock’.
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That's where all these highway interchanges and overpasses are planned to bring the traffic even quicker than the present gridlock.
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Negotiating the chaos and commotion of the gridlocked Arc de Triomphe in a car is not for the faint-hearted, never mind on a tandem.
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Flights were grounded, roads closed or gridlocked and rail and bus services disrupted.
The Sun
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Less than four years into the life of the parliament we seem to be facing the prospect of legislative gridlock.
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Lack of economic development, resulting in commuter gridlock and limited commercial tax base.
Jack Cheseldine (R)
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Escape urban gridlock in West Virginia, where country roads and mountain mamas are only a fraction of the attraction
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One open-air concert starring Robbie Williams attracted 370,000 people and caused gridlock for miles.
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Others think the nation already has the appropriate level of security along the border and should shift some of the funding toward easing the gridlock that exists for those trying to get through the built-up border.
U.S. border cities prove havens from Mexico's drug violence
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However, the short-term gridlock is very bad for the outlook, in our view.
Economists React: Just How Good Is Gridlock?
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Political gridlock has become the new norm in America.
Times, Sunday Times
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GIANT traffic jams brought gridlock chaos to Johannesburg before the big kick-off.
The Sun
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This would be especially good considering the almost daily South Granville Street traffic bottlenecks and gridlock.
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A certain amount of hat-eating has taken place among his enemies, because congestion charging really works and has done much to alleviate the terminal gridlock that had central London in its grip.
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It is a view of partisan gridlock.
Times, Sunday Times
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What Brown inherited when he became speaker in December 1980 was an institution well down the road toward gridlock.
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Proponents say a parliamentary system would end the gridlock between the executive and legislature that dogs Philippine politics.
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We must do our part to be informed and engaged citizens, break out of the constructed partisan gridlock that stymies our thinking, and move forward on solutions, united as a country.
Annabel Park: Occupied America: Bridging the Divide
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Nobody will thank the planners if they face daily gridlock getting to and from their homes.
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WE know that something radical must be done to solve the growing problem of traffic gridlock in Britain.
The Sun
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London's new congestion charging experiment - designed to ease traffic gridlock in the capital - went live this morning.
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Roads prone to gridlocks and bumper-to-bumper traffic have both the traffic cop and the commuter blowing horns and exchanging a colourful repartee.
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Congress is in gridlock.
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Emergency vehicles aside, there were few cars on the normally gridlocked streets.
The Sun
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The aim is to rid the town of heavy through traffic which is creating gridlock.
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Drivers also avoided the dreaded gridlock by leaving home earlier than normal.
Times, Sunday Times
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It recently launched a program to cull the academic community for new technologies that will help ease the gridlock.
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Americans think gridlock results from merging, entering and exiting traffic, or from ‘gaper blockings’ at accident sites on superhighways, and the like.
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Diversions left early morning motorists facing huge tailbacks and the gridlock is expected to continue tonight.
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The President's face remained composed, masking the turmoil and terror raging within, as his cerebrum went into gridlock.
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As car numbers increase by a million a year, sensible action is needed to avoid gridlock.
The Sun
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The capital's roads were left gridlocked and buses and mainline rail services were overwhelmed.
The Sun
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The battle over spending led to gridlock.
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It couldn't have come at a worse time for the city's traders, who are gearing up for Christmas, but York's gridlocked roads are having an impact far beyond the city itself.
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But we had to sell the business - and one of our main reasons was the difficulty in getting deliveries to our customers in heavy and often gridlocked traffic.
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The closures have meant gridlock in places, but pre-planned highways contingencies have been put into operation and diversionary routes publicised where possible.
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Road users and residents say they are fed up with the constant gridlock and traffic mayhem.
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That could lead to months of gridlock and policy drift, say some analysts.
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It's the end of the working day, but a heavy snowstorm has brought chaos to public transport and gridlock to the roads, thus trapping everyone in the smoking room after hours.
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We got on the bus, but there had been a major accident on the local A-road, so the streets were gridlocked.
Archive 2009-04-01
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And that flood of goods is threatening to create gridlock on the roads and rails of Southern California.
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The president soon will face a fundamental strategic choice: whether to bend to the power of larger Republican House and Senate contingents in ho pes of accomplishing a few goals, or to resist them and risk the onset of full political gridlock.
Big Personality Out, Smaller Agenda In
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But with an ongoing nurses strike that shows no signs of ending, a shambolically run health service, rising inflation and gridlock in every major city, all is not lost for the increasingly beleaguered opposition leader, Enda Kenny.
The Irish General Election
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Meanwhile, Republican Sunder Ramani has run a Scott Brown style campaign: energizing the Republican base while appealing to Democratic and Decline to State voters as a "non partisan" problem solver who can reach across party lines to solve problems in "gridlocked" Sacramento.
The California Majority Report
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Instead they would send them on "detours" around the venue never letting anyone park causing a lot of people to spend hours sitting in gridlock in their cars going around and around the venue while the show played.
Radiohead: Flooding Forces Fans To Circle Parking Lot For 3 Hours - The Consumerist
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The protesting workers used tanks, armoured cars, and missile launchers to seal the entrance, creating a gridlock along a nearby highway.
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A meeting was convened to discuss possible ways to prevent total gridlock.
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Traffic will take to minor narrower roads causing even worse congestion and gridlock.
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Break the gridlock and let the talking heads on tv invite on every airheaded rightwinger they can round up.
Matthew Yglesias » If The Founders Had Wanted a Supermajority Requirement for the Senate, They Could Have Put One in the Constitution
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Will political gridlock in Washington make restoring some degree of US fiscal discipline more or less likely?
Times, Sunday Times
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Diversions left early morning motorists facing huge tailbacks and the gridlock is expected to continue tonight.
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The predictable result was gridlock on the highways.
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I have a question for you about what you refer to as gridlock in Congress, because it seemed to me that for the first time, Congress did say no to some very good programs because of the fact that they would add to the deficit and that this was, in fact, breaking a previous gridlock, which existed when Congress, when they had good programs, would simply say, well, we've got to add to the deficit.
Presidents Remarks In Q A Session In Boston On
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The result was gridlock and frayed tempers.
Times, Sunday Times
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At a battery factory in Michigan this past week, he urged Americans to pressure members of Congress to stop what he called partisanship and gridlock that he said have undermined public confidence.
Obama Weathers Criticisms on Leadership, Economic Policies
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And of course, during those long periods of eight Justices, one recusing him or herself eliminates the possibility of a tie, so recusal doesn't always result in judicial gridlock.
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Lonsdale Street is gridlocked, primarily due to a couple of people ignoring the clearway signs and parking.
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Ministers favour congestion charging to avoid gridlock, arguing that it is too expensive and environmentally damaging to simply build new roads.
The Sun
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Gridlocked York could be freed by dualling sections of the A1237 or by creating a new ring road relief route, the city's top councillor has said.
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Constant roadworks lead to rush-hour gridlock on the highways linking the bustling resorts of Ayia Napa, Lemesos and Paphos.
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The move to inject liquidity started in Asia as the Bank of Japan reacted early to head off fears of a global gridlock.
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On the Copacabana strip, diplomatic limousines push their way through gridlocked traffic.
Times, Sunday Times
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And still the returns prophesied continued political gridlock in an evenly divided nation.
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The dictionary meaning of gridlock is obstruction of traffic caused by queues of vehicles forming across a junction and causing further queues to form in the intersecting streets.
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The gridlock has become a significant impediment to the economy as well.
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The best way to ease gridlock is to voluntarily switch to other forms of travel, where possible.
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Under unified government, we find that the endogeneity of the status quo leads to a non-monotonic effect of the size of the legislative majority on gridlock; surprisingly, under unified government, gridlock is higher when the party in control of the legislature has a supermajority than when it has a bare majority.
"Model" Citizens
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Thousands of vehicles are caught in a daily gridlock whose tentacles spread across southeast London and into Kent.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Edinburgh, six-mile tailbacks of commuter traffic brought gridlock to much of the city for more than three hours.
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A transport survey shows peak-time congestion is worsening and has left drivers gridlocked for 21 per cent of their journey.
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However, the short-term gridlock is very bad for the outlook, in our view.
Stocks Gain As Fed Word On Stimulus Awaited
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Afterwards, the Dow plunged again and was down 600 points or more, further reflecting the investing world's lack of confidence in what one trader called the "gridlocked circus" of Washington, D.C.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Hours of gridlock ensued.
Times, Sunday Times
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Traffic was reported to be "gridlocked" on the busy A417 at Birdlip near Cheltenham, with the Highways Agency closing a number of roads in the area.
Your Local Guardian | Sutton
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Often the whole high street becomes gridlocked, meanwhile half the street is blocked by cars parked illegally.
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A lorry shed a cargo of paper across the Bristol Road on Saturday morning causing four hours of traffic gridlock in Chippenham.
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If the Government insists on proceeding with the proposed National Stadium it should not be sited in already overdeveloped and gridlocked Dublin.
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What should have been a ten minute trip to the Upper West Side turned into a winding adventure of gridlock, rubbernecking, loud horns and cruising endlessly for a parking space.
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Heavy downpours caused gridlock yesterday in the roads leading to the site.
Times, Sunday Times
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The flying saucer was an awesome kick, the dodgems were fun (although our group managed to cause total gridlock twice).
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Drivers also avoided the dreaded gridlock by leaving home earlier than normal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Drivers also avoided the dreaded gridlock by leaving home earlier than normal.
Times, Sunday Times
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It will cause misery for long-suffering drivers who faced gridlock when the main burst, forcing police to shut the flooded road for hours.
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The result was gridlock and frayed tempers.
Times, Sunday Times
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I found out that in Tokyo, back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the merchants in the harbor, with their rafts and barges, got into such gridlock in the harbor that they eventually stopped moving altogether, rafted up all their barges and created what was called The Floating City.
Mike Ragogna: TED, Solar Power, Windpower, and All Things Amerikana : A Conversation with Thomas Dolby
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Traffic lights lost power, causing gridlock all across the city.
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For the past few decades regional resource and environmental policy and management have been in and out of decision gridlocks in many regions of North America, Europe, and Australia.
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BRITAIN faces gridlock after record road traffic, it was claimed yesterday.
The Sun
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Little did I know, as I struggled onto a hugely packed tube, that the city was in total gridlock.
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If we want to keep motorists sane and avoid total the gridlock of Saturday last, now is the time to start planning.
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Partners in Crime was kind of campy and Gridlock, I agree was just bad.
"We never did a bad episode?" RTD says about DW.
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Drivers will be frozen in their tracks whenever the President and other world leaders move about the city," said Samuel I. Schwartz, a traffic engineer and the coiner of the phrase "gridlock.
NYT > Home Page
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The near-term outlook for enactment of new copyright legislation is unclear, and the best guess is that gridlock will prevail.
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The capital's roads were left gridlocked and buses and mainline rail services were overwhelmed.
The Sun
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There was gridlock on some roads when 200,000 people converged on RAF Fairford for last summer's two-day event.
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Just as the rise of the car gave us terms such as traffic jam, gridlock and road rage, this modern dilemma needs its own new phrases.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the ongoing partisan battles over spending led to a typical case of gridlock as the legislative session ended last month.
