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Definition of the day : « filibustering »

  • As in stall : verb delay for own purposes
  • As in tarry : verb dawdle, delay
  • As in stonewall : verb delay
  • As in delay : verb cause stop in action
Example sentences :
  • Take you for an English officer helping in a filibustering craft.
  • Extract from : « Fitz the Filibuster » by George Manville Fenn
  • The day of filibustering aggression has gone by in the United States.
  • Extract from : « Speeches of Benjamin Harrison » by Benjamin Harrison
  • Are we to have no peace even in this inner room, for your filibustering ways?
  • Extract from : « Tom Tufton's Travels » by Evelyn Everett-Green
  • Afterward came Commodore Aury, with one hundred and fifty men, on a filibustering expedition, and overpowered the Spanish troops.
  • Extract from : « Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes » by Sylvia Sunshine
  • The privilege was made use of occasionally near the close of a session for "filibustering" purposes.
  • Extract from : « Government in the United States » by James Wilford Garner
  • There was not the slightest proof or suggestion that she had ever engaged in filibustering or in any illegitimate commerce.
  • Extract from : « The History of Cuba, vol. 3 » by Willis Fletcher Johnson
  • The annexationist and filibustering schemes of the decade immediately preceding the War of Secession were prompted by two motives.
  • Extract from : « The United States and Latin America » by John Holladay Latan
  • Such actions are called obstructive tactics, or filibustering.
  • Extract from : « Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition » by J.A. James
  • The duty of opposition to filibustering has been admitted by every President.
  • Extract from : « A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant » by James D. Richardson
  • The election of Mr. McKinley has brought the filibustering parties no better luck.
  • Extract from : « The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, April 1, 1897 Vol. 1. No. 21 » by Various