Examples of 'filibuster' in a sentence
Meaning of "filibuster"
filibuster (noun) - a tactic used to obstruct or delay legislative action by prolonged speechmaking or other means. It is often employed in parliamentary settings
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- A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.
- A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.
- A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction; a filibusterer.
- To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.
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A filibuster that no one ever saw coming.
We all benefit from a filibuster proof of majority.
This filibuster could be having on senator grant.
We just lost the numbers on filibuster reform.
Is this little filibuster of yours supposed to reassure me.
Diefenbaker and his lieutenants mounted a filibuster.
I will just filibuster the main bill.
Sixty votes were needed to break the filibuster.
After the longest filibuster in modern history.
The filibuster is a technique to hold debate on a bill.
We would be lucky to clear a filibuster by a single vote.
The filibuster and then have the.
The key is most likely the filibuster.
Some historians say the filibuster was created by mistake.
I would like to know his definition of filibuster.
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It used to be possible to filibuster judicial nominations.
Maybe they would even call it a filibuster.
That is what the filibuster was about.
I say we have to assume there will be a filibuster.
This filibuster is a cowardly attempt to turn your attention.
We should not have the filibuster rule.
The filibuster protects the party in the minority.
The republicans were abusing the filibuster.
We did not always filibuster the hell out of everything.
He refused to let them kill the filibuster.
These changes make a filibuster much more difficult.
The filibuster is a key element in this.
Has started the filibuster already.
The filibuster is effectively built into the process.
American senators can also filibuster without droning on.
An epic filibuster regarding abortion rights.
Very excited about this filibuster reform bill.
We were all exhausted and he was threatening to filibuster.
Your filibuster reform stalled.
Because she just talked about filibuster reform.
And the filibuster went viral.
And that gave me an opportunity for the filibuster.
We are gonna filibuster this bill.
To recap the main arguments in favor of the filibuster.
As the current filibuster system.
He will lead the charge on overturning the filibuster.
You will end your filibuster against lifting sanctions.
Thurmond knew just how obstructive a filibuster could be.
The filibuster has ended.
If you are at all aware of the filibuster.
You used to have to really do a filibuster if you were gonna do a filibuster.
Senator McCarron to drop that filibuster.
Pick issues we can not filibuster and ram them through.
They should have voted away the filibuster.
Then we filibuster it to death.
