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How to use the word logjam in a Sentence?

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There is no doubt about it: it’s time to clear the runway for President Biden’s choice for FAA administrator, Phil Washington. With recent events, including airline troubles and last week’s tech problem, this agency needs a leader confirmed by the Senate immediately, i intend to break this logjam, work to hold a hearing for Mr. Washington, where he can detail his experience and answer questions and then work towards a speedy Senate confirmation.

Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The problem continues to be sourcing the input components and the skilled workers that remain in short supply, but there is evidence that the logjam is beginning to break up.

Tim Quinlan

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

They bought the machine, they have the machine, they have the test, but they need the reagents to do a higher volume of tests, that's the logjam we are in.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

While extremely upsetting, this increase in COVID-19 cases appears to be less a sign of new exponential growth and more a sign of a logjam from commercial labs, i have said time and again -- COVID-19 is a statewide problem and testing is a vital step towards understanding the scale of this problem. We believe COVID-19 is spreading in every parish in Louisiana.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The very next step, either tomorrow or Friday, is we're going into court to ask for the grand jury material and to enforce the subpoena against Mr. McGahn, that's particularly important because the excuses ... that the White House gives for McGahn not testifying ... are the same excuses for all the other fact witnesses, and if we break that, we'll break the logjam.

Jerrold Nadler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's not like there's so much else away from this to compete, but it's going to be a bit of a logjam.

Craig Packer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I came to the conclusion that this was real and that the time had come to break through this logjam that had existed for so long, if this opportunity goes by we will always regret it.

Hamid Biglari

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When walking into an event, it's human nature to gravitate to our right and move around the room counterclockwise, that's everyone else's instinct too, which is why there's often a logjam by the front door.

Mark Gregory

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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