gridlocks

Armed robbers emerge from the slums to pillage cars stuck in gridlocks (aptly named "hold-ups" in regional slang) so impenetrable that the fourteen-mile trip from the airport to the city center can take four hours.

Worse Than Iraq? 2006

Armed robbers emerge from the slums to pillage cars stuck in gridlocks (aptly named "hold-ups" in regional slang) so impenetrable that the fourteen-mile trip from the airport to the city center can take four hours.

Worse Than Iraq? 2006

An independent board staffed by experts and able to make cost-savings changes to the system even if Congress gridlocks?

Handicapping a 'grand bargain' Ezra Klein 2011

“An officer directing traffic would not resolve the gridlocks, because the gridlocks were caused by the volume and conditions,” Starks said.

A view of the storm's impact on the region Washington Post reporters 2011

I think the big news here is that Senate gridlocks and filibusters are going to somehow end in 2011, with magic or something.

Justice Stevens Retiring?: Arlen Specter Thinks He Should Wait Due To Senate 'Gridlock' (VIDEO) 2010

I think the big news here is that Senate gridlocks and filibusters are going to somehow end in 2011, with magic or something.

Justice Stevens Retiring?: Arlen Specter Thinks He Should Wait Due To Senate 'Gridlock' (VIDEO) 2010

Avoidable traffic gridlocks resulting in man-hour loss and also unnecessary deaths, injuries as well as damage and loss of property from traffic crashes.

Lagos Takes Traffic Management To Schools 2009

What Obama represents so well and with such powerful articulation is the positive of winning an election by people, empowered in sufficient numbers, to be able to affect the collective future by moving past the gridlocks in Washington.

Time Poll: Obama The Stronger Dem Against McCain 2009

What your "doer" is going to "do" best case is split the electorate 50. 5-49.5 and commence railing against the VRWC that just gridlocks us back to the late 80's.

With Kerry Backing Obama, What Will Ted Kennedy Do? 2009

They would ride with a mechanic synchronicity, like schools of robotic fish, and appear and disappear suddenly, never still, never trapped in traffic snarls, always finding a way through the gridlocks and the side streets.

Bicycle Boys 2009