Sentences with filibuster
fil·i·bus·ter
F f - Senator Seymour has threatened a filibuster to block the bill.
- They simply threatened to filibuster until the Senate adjourns. [VERB]
- Several senators denounced the plan as the militarisation of America, and vowed to filibuster to stop the law's passage.
- Republicans tried twice to break a Democratic-led filibuster against Bolton's confirmation but failed.
- 1890 These duties involved prodigious physical and mental exertion, in a climate deadly to Europeans. They also involved much voyaging in waters haunted by filibusters and buccaneers. But nothing appears to daunt Labat. As for the filibusters, he becomes their comrade and personal friend; – he even becomes their chaplain, and does not scruple to make excursions with them. — Lafcadio Hearn, Two Years in the French West Indies.
- A likely filibuster in the Senate over emissions trading is an act of weakness and political opportunism, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says.
- A carefully scripted filibuster ensued.
- A likely filibuster in the Senate over emissions trading is an act of weakness and political opportunism.