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UK
/lˈɒɡdʒæm/
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[ US /ˈɫɑɡˌdʒæm/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɑɡˌdʒæm/ ]
NOUN
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any stoppage attributable to unusual activity
the legislation ran into a logjam - an immovable mass of logs blocking a river
How To Use logjam In A Sentence
- Each state, unsurprisingly, wanted to be the lead responder, and the team recommended that Hauer try to break the logjam and give direction.
- If the logjam, however, is structural in nature, it will be much more difficult to overcome.
- The second is when Pacino first sees Williams and chases him across a logjam in the river, finally falling into the freezing water and struggling to resurface between the massive logs.
- One reason for that view is that the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Arlen Specter, has been quietly building a strategy that could break the logjam over judicial nominations.
- Is consumer outrage about rising gasoline prices enough to break the logjam blocking an energy bill?
- Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP's health spokeswoman, challenged ministers to intervene to ease the logjam.
- One thing that may break the logjam is the ability to build a functioning democracy.
- The only way out of this logjam is more funding - and that's not going to happen. Science to Suffer at NASA
- Trying to determine the reason for the human logjam, I craned my neck trying to see over the heads of the rest of the parishioners.
- The long-awaited deal could break a logjam that had threatened to derail the administration's trade agenda for the year, potentially clearing the way for passage of pacts with South Korea and Panama that had been held over from the Bush administration. U.S. Closes In on Trade Deal With Colombia