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How to use the word stonewall in a Sentence?

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The end of Democrats’ unified government in D.C. is mired in partisan pettiness. Instead of working to combat the inhumane Biden border crisis, fentanyl killing an entire generation of Americans, or securing economic prosperity for the future, Democrats are set to stonewall Republicans, release a private citizen’s tax returns, and blow an even bigger hole in our debt and deficit, really tells the American people all they need to know about Democrat priorities — cheap political points that do nothing to better the lives of working-class Americans.

Erin Perrine

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I've known my whole life that I'm gay, and I now feel that I'm ready to come out and be myself. in reaching this point, I've had some of the best support and advice from my family, my Club, my agent and Stonewall, who have all been incredibly pro-active in putting my interests and welfare first.

Jake Daniels

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China has been a bad actor and everyone knows it — from continuing to stonewall on the WHO investigation of COVID-19 origins to perpetrating genocide and committing mass humans rights violations,’ i’m glad to see the Biden Administration take steps to hold China accountable, but this diplomatic boycott does not go far enough.

Tim Ryan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we were changing this name from Jefferson Davis Avenue to Stonewall Jackson Avenue, would that still be an issue ? what are we trying to preserve here ? I think those are the questions that many of our leaders at the state level have to answer.

Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One of the reasons that I voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt was Steve Bannon in contempt didn't cooperate at all, and in fact, at the time, and one of the arguments was that even Staff Mark Meadows was having Staff Mark Meadows lawyers communicate with the committee, and if you stonewall Congress... If you refuse to participate in that, all of a sudden you don't really have an equal branch of government trying to get to the answers of this. So for me, I want to see what the Select Committee will do, see what the recommendation is and then take it from there.

Fred Upton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don't want anyone to be fooled by the colors in the streets, the rainbow glosses around the ads of T-Mobile or any of the other wonderful companies, into thinking that we are free because we're not, and so to see today, on the anniversary of Stonewall, police heavy saturated in our streets, it's traumatic for some of us.

Indya Moore

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

And so to see today, on the anniversary of Stonewall, police heavy saturated in our streets, it's traumatic for some of us.

Indya Moore

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There are Catholics all across Rhode Islandwho support the LGBTQIA+community and Ihonestly think that its shameful that Bishop Tobin is resorting to these attacks on the first day of pride month, on the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, pride isnt harmful, love is not harmful, its 2019.

Joe Lazzerini

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We still hold out a small but vanishing hope that the department will follow its legal obligations. But it is certainly my sense that this is a top-down instruction from the president to stonewall every congressional request no matter how reasonable.

Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Understanding the nature of his involvement in those actions is absolutely critical to evaluating the type of justice he would be on the bench, if Republicans continue to stonewall, the American people will wonder what they are hiding.

Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

So this week it's Robert E. Lee, i noticed that (Confederate Gen.) Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it (President) Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It’s why GIs gave their lives at Omaha Beach and Iwo Jima; Iraq and Afghanistan – and why men and women from Selma to Stonewall were prepared to give theirs as well, so that’s what we mean when we say America is exceptional. Not that our nation has been flawless from the start, but that we have shown the capacity to change, and make life better for those who follow.

President Obama

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The Stonewall Inn is really an irreplaceable historic location, a site that is so meaningful and represents a time when our community came together and stood up and fought for our right to exist - that's something we never want to lose.

Glennda Testone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I want you to stonewall it. (To staff on news of break-in at Watergate)

Richard Milhous Nixon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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