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Examples
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The global financial crisis of late 2008 muffled the sound of that speed-bump.
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If it is, the DMCA is irrelevant and has no speed-bump effect at all.
Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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A filibuster is not a failure, but rather a speed-bump en route to the next stage of the process.
Bradford Kane: Lessons From the Debt Ceiling Crisis: Bipartisanship in the Tea Party Era Bradford Kane 2011
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As it turned-out, the intervening Carter Administration was just a speed-bump, a nuisance in the way for just a moment.
Dems Must Step Up to Majority Governance after the Massachusetts Mess 2010
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And all we had in their way was the Berlin Brigade which was no more than a speed-bump for a T-72 tank.
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Usama tells his story fluently and fast, and rides over these difficult moments – a killing – like a speed-bump.
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And those going-to-be sex offenders (convicted/registered or not, and the vast majority are among the latter) who want "addresses", this bill isn't even going to be a speed-bump in their effort.
Sound Politics: The legislative coup against the citizens' constitutional right of inititiave (II) 2007
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Well, the first speed-bump on your road to understanding is this mistaken belief of yours that either Darwin or the theory of evolution proposes that species "evolve into something better".
You think because a chimpanzee knows you, he doesn't hate you? Ann Althouse 2009
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That's right, in the face of the Christian lobby and the religious right - with more money than "god" in their coffers - we secularists are an insignificant speed-bump.
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But Playbill also notes one serious aspect of the play: [T] here is one unscheduled speed-bump on this Bush-whacking expedition -- when he asks for a moment of silence for the lives lost in Iraq -- and the audience turns chillingly still for what seems like a small eternity.
Greg Mitchell: How George Bush's Penis Made It to Broadway 2009
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