Of course D.C. bureaucracy would gum up the works. 5.
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The least bit of dust can gum up the works.
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"They can really gum up the works sometimes," Currier says.
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There was no time to overthink it, to gum up the works.
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I would say that the DOJ's effort there did gum up Microsoft.
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He's referring to complicated Senate procedures that gum up and delay the process.
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The drug industry could easily gum up the works of any importation plan.
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Their scenes tend to devolve into puerile antics and basically just gum up the works.
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Plastic, for example, can get caught in paper recycling filters and gum up the machines.
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Here's where DST can gum up the works, particularly in terms of your ascendant sign.
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Relying on the MPs of other parties is more likely to gum up the process.
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Mr. Trump has considerable leverage to gum up the works of the Affordable Care Act.
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The toxins gum up so-called sodium pumps, an essential component of all animal cells.
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"One senator can really gum up the works," said Alan Abramowitz, a political scientist at Emory University.
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But red tape and tax are not the only things that can gum up the economy's operation.
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He frequently accused Republicans of abusing the technique to gum up the works during President Obama's tenure.
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They can't gum up traffic from sites such as Netflix and Dish's SlingTV in favor of their own.
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Meanwhile, a victorious Republican candidate in the governor's race could continue to gum up the Medicaid expansion process.
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"When prices are low, you strip out the oil revenue and things start to gum up," said Cohen.
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Atkins also has many packaged meal and bar offerings, which Laska says really gum up the whole system.
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The VA has denied it, but Democrats don't trust the administration, and could gum up Jackson's confirmation process.
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Rich, powerful people who own country estates in the targeted districts find various ways to gum up the works.
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The hitch is that syngas from waste is full of tarry residue that tends to gum up the turbine.
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Low-level bureaucrats, eager to preserve both their importance and, sadly, their bribes, could also gum up the works.
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The goal is to gum up the court system so badly it can't push through deportation and extradition orders.
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"It's going to completely gum up the streets unless some aggressive bus prioritization measures are instituted," Mr. White said.
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The cups, for example, tend to gum up recycling equipment because their plastic lining gets stuck in machine filters.
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The wild plants also produce a chemical reaction that causes the plant sap to gum up the whitefly's feeding tube.
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Senate Democrats are threatening to gum up the Senate schedule as they aim to slow down President Trump's Cabinet nominees.
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The company says the union is unfairly portraying its demands and using a strike to gum up the negotiation process.
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"There has been an unhelpful effort on the part of some Republicans to gum up the works here," he said.
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Politicians commonly gum up important nominations, tie up precious funds or let bad situations fester to get what they want.
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Presidents have since treated speakers and senate majority leaders more as people who could be dangers to gum up the works.
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When they do report assaults, the power of the football program appears to gum up the legal process, and deny justice.
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The wholesome justification for deregulation arises when government uses its power in ways that gum up the dynamic power of markets.
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If the cups end up in recycling facilities that don't separate the materials, they could gum up machines and harm the equipment.
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And with the Republican majority shrunken, an even smaller number of die-hard rightwingers will be able to gum up the works.
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But sticking to the letter of the law can easily be used to gum up the works and slow down the process.
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That means just a handful of lawmakers in the House could gum up the works and throw the massive legislation into uncertainty.
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Normally, the process works smoothly but liquidity shortfalls can gum up the works and, in the worst case, can cause financial crises.
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And although opposition protests occasionally gum up the centre of Nairobi, even his most fervent supporters will not stay on the streets indefinitely.
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There are 2023 Democrats in the Senate and they'd only need 40 to unite to gum up the works in the upper chamber.
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But the effort will likely only gum up the process, as it remains extremely unlikely the effort can find the 1,85033 delegates needed.
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"Well of course Democrats are trying to gum up the system and the Republicans are allowing that to continue to happen," she said.
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Beyond winning favorable rulings, cases can serve to "gum up the machinery of the government and rob the Trump administration of momentum," he said.
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But Sessions, in particular, is convinced that many of these asylum claims are fraudulent, brought by "dirty immigration lawyers" to gum up the system.
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No party has a sensible plan for tackling the mess of property taxes and stamp duties that help to gum up the housing market.
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The well-funded organizations that work overtime to gum up our border enforcement efforts and push for what ends up being essentially, a borderless world.
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Once we wash them down the drain, they gum up ecosystems, and have been found in the Great Lakes and up and down the coast.
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The Senate minority leader warned that the fight over Betsy DeVos could gum up the works for getting Trump's other nominees cleared through the Senate.
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The real purpose of these regulatory "reform" bills is to gum up the rule-making process and make it almost impossible to issue new rules.
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Such market failures—or, in this view, market sabotage—gum up competition and widen income inequality, leaving millions of working families "hanging on by their fingernails".
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Arcane rules and customs that are hard for even the most experienced Senate alumni to explain allow someone like Jeff Flake to gum up the works.
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But they are a nightmare for recycling plants, because they are so diaphanous that they float and cling and wrap and gum up multimillion-dollar machinery.
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The prime candidates are fourth-year man Markus Wheaton and sophomore Sammie Coates, though Darrius Heyward-Bey is also hanging around to gum up the works.
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They hope the election will both gum up Brussels and give them extra leverage in domestic politics, which is what many of them care most about.
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They threatened to waste the Senate's time with lengthy litigation over executive privilege and call a slough of their own witnesses to gum up the work.
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But he could be an early test case of the administration's intentions to gum up the impeachment works with contentious legal challenges that could last for months.
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Do they play ball -- especially considering that a Democratic House majority could make their lives very uncomfortable and gum up the works for the next few years?
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The paradox wouldn't make or break any individual immigrant's DACA application, but it could further gum up an approval process that's already been worrisomely slow in some cases.
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Democrats can try to gum up the works, create a further sense of crisis and, over time, use it all as part of a strategy to reclaim power.
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Self-interested drivers opting for the quickest route do not take into account their effect of lengthening others' journey times, and so can gum up a new shortcut.
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Aggressive invocations of executive privilege and hardball negotiations could gum up the works and slow down the Democrats' momentum, especially if GOP lawmakers lend the administration a hand.
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But as Democrats look to gum up the president's confirmation votes, it's unclear whether lawmakers will strike a deal to confirm her immediately or if she'll be delayed.
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" "If someone is abusing the law, it teaches you where to throw the wrench to gum up the works and keep the judicial steamroller from crushing your client.
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At the moment, Democrats have a limited collection of tools at their disposal to gum up the works the way Republicans did (the filibuster remains alive -- for now, anyway).
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They gum up the works and make it harder for them to peddle your files to credit card companies and such, thus making ever more money off your data.
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Of course, given what Mr. Pruitt has been up to at the E.P.A., it's tempting to hope that Mr. Benton sticks around and continues to gum up the works.
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Instead, it was a relatively smooth day with almost no wild flare ups or attempts to gum up the works and people who watched may have actually learned something.
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Big companies would no doubt argue that unions only gum up the works, resist change and eat into the profits that motivate firms to innovate in the first place.
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But when the private markets are in flux, many poor decisions are made around spending, hiring and raising capital, all of which gum up the Silicon Valley value creation machine.
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Others are said to be passing around petitions to instigate parliamentary procedures that could gum-up the convention process and embarrass party leaders as the cameras are rolling during primetime.
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It's going to make their lives more difficult, because these bills gum up the works and will make it harder for them to promulgate rules they support in the future.
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I suggested that my compatriots might come to a consensus that inequality is harmful when they realized how vast inequities could gum up the cogs of economic and social mobility.
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In the Senate, rules on debating and amending bills typically limit the ways the majority leader can advance a party plan, creating avenues for Democrats to gum up the works.
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Many federal judges aren't keen on the immigration court system, especially when its appeals gum up their own dockets, and they might step in to push back against Sessions's changes.
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They argue Senate Democrats remain timid and are playing too nice instead of working overtime to gum up the works of the upper chamber to try and stop this judicial makeover.
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Rogers said he feared a new fight over spending "would really gum up the works" as Congress tries to pass appropriations bills for the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1.
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But because the Senate operates almost entirely on unanimous consent, a single senator can still threaten to significantly gum up the procedural works if his or her hold is not honored.
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It could be coincidence, but I chalk it up to the universal law that the more parts you put into a system, the more chances there are to gum up the works.
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Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), a member of the House Freedom Caucus who lost a primary last month to a GOP establishment-backed challenger, sought to gum up House proceedings on Tuesday.
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And they are likely to try to gum up the plans of the pro-Europeans, pressing for more power to go to the nations rather than to a bureaucracy they consider elitist.
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If everything goes right for Denver, they'll gum up Carolina's offense—considering that Denver's offense is pretty much made of old gum, the Super Bowl would turn into a game decided by defense.
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Policy has certainly played a role: Labor market regulations can gum up the sorting of workers into the best possible jobs, where they will be at their most productive and most highly paid.
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In large numbers, these fragile animals can stop boat traffic, devastate fisheries, or gum up the cooling systems of a power plant, as they once did in the Philippines, causing a massive blackout.
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Top executives worried that any addition to the limited McDonald's menu would gum up the works, and that a higher-priced burger — the basic McDonald's hamburger cost just 22007 cents — would alienate customers.
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Well every resolution for a specific witness or document set can be amended, meaning there are ways to attach poison pills to things that will gum up the intentions of Democrats quite quickly.
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I learned everything there is to know about how to make the Senate function smoothly, and, of course, the opposite: how to gum up the place so it came to a grinding halt.
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On Thursday, Ryan said he has asked the sergeant-at-arms and parliamentarians for recommendations about how to respond if Democrats try to occupy the floor and gum up the legislative process next week.
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But that entails tariffs on good exports — up to 10 percent on car exports, for example, most of which go to the European Union — as well as non-tariff barriers that gum up trade.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan and his deputies were under pressure to deliver the aid this week, with dozens of Republicans from Texas and Florida threatening to gum up the works on a spending bill.
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Sometimes Mr. Wolfert will offer genuinely persuasive analyses, like dark and insightful readings of Antony's speech in "Julius Caesar" or a section of "Henry V," but mostly the iambs gum up his own story.
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It was a looooong day It became clear within the first five minutes of the hearing that Republicans were committed to trying to gum up the works using a variety of parliamentary stall tactics.
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"The Senate minority is empowered to resist," the site says on its "I Object!" page, arguing that Democratic senators should gum up the everyday operations of the Senate by filibustering and refusing even mundane votes.
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Meanwhile, excavations in search of prehistoric caves continue at the base of the cliff, and a medieval mystery will gum up the works at the dig, where a Venus fertility figurine has recently been found.
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The other advantage to that limitation is that it makes it all but impossible to download viruses, malware, or even battery-draining old-school software that might run in the background and gum up your works.
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A domino effect of developments that appeared to threaten Trump emphasized the momentum of the impeachment drive on the eve of the vote, amid unsuccessful efforts by Republicans on Capitol Hill to gum up the process.
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Parody accounts and scammers with similar names and photos tend to gum up the comments of high-profile users, which can make it tough to decipher a genuine response from a troll trying to scam Bitcoin.
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I am conflict-averse by disposition and funny by profession, and like the unpopular flavors of soda pop, my darker, angrier and more earnest thoughts tend to accumulate in the dispenser and gum up the works.
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So the outnumbered Republicans in the State Senate, who deeply oppose the measure but could not make a difference with their votes, decided to hit the road instead, and gum up the works with their absence.
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Mr. Trump's advisers are bullish that claims of absolute immunity and executive privilege can help gum up Democrats' progress and may force them to leave certain potential witnesses and documentary evidence uncollected in the interest of time.
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It's not the most accurate thing in the world – friction still plays a big role in things like these and will gum up the works – but I trust Laimer accounted for all of that in his design.
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In addition to fighting or sneaking with standard weapons and spells, you can do things like gum up a trap with an adhesive bulb, or feed a slug to give its slime trail useful properties like flammability.
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For Democrats and gun control advocates who feel so strongly about gun control, there is no choice and are few options but trying to gum up the workings in Congress to force votes on narrowly tailored measures.
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The Budget Committee had set its sights on unveiling the resolution this week, but may now delay it until next week or even after the Fourth of July recess, which could gum up the tight legislative agenda.
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Its technology (powered by the blockchain!) would churn under dozens of independent newsrooms, its machinery creating a new, utopian model, free from the clutches of miserly businessmen or politically compromised publishers threatening to gum up the works.
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Immigration or tax reform alone could consume Washington for years, and with Republicans already eyeing mid-term elections and Democrats battling to gum up Congress with procedural tricks, it's hard to see Trump's big plans being fully realized.
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Research by Gita Gopinath and Emine Boz of the IMF and Mikkel Plagborg-Møller of Princeton University has found that a strong dollar tends to gum up world trade, as well as making dollar debts harder to repay.
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Because the Judiciary Committee is comprised of 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats, a single Republican defector would be enough to gum up the smooth-running confirmation machine Mr Grassley has overseen since Mr Trump tapped Mr Kavanaugh in July.
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But in truth, in all but the steadiest hands, too much heady stuff tends to gum up the works in films that are mainly meant to showcase cool stunts and improbable plot twists, which this film has in spades.
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In the days leading up to the Super Bowl, organizers called on Uber drivers in and around San Francisco to log out of the Uber app at the same time to gum up the system in protest of wage cuts.
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Her late night sacking stands out as the most contentious clash to date between the administration and opponents inside Congress and out who have become increasingly willing to go rogue in their efforts to cut off or gum up its agenda.
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While senators are no longer required to give actual speeches to mount a filibuster, it has remained powerful tool that allows the minority to gum up action in the Senate until the majority can find 60 votes to break a logjam.
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Instead, he appears to be taking a small step toward Democrats doing whatever they can to gum up the works of the Senate, and jam the schedule of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, until they win concessions on Trump and Russia.
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A Democratic-controlled Congress would be a basket of deplorables, but there would be enough Republicans to gum up the Senate&aposs machinery, keeping the institution as peripheral as it has been under their control and asphyxiating mischief from a Democratic House.
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Serbia has indicated that it's ready to do so in exchange for an accession deal, but Russia, eager to keep Serbia from joining the EU, is trying to leverage strongly pro-Russian popular sentiment to gum up, and perhaps ruin, the fledgling compromise.
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Congress still has an omnibus spending bill to pass, in late March, so there lies another opportunity to gum up the works to protect DACA, whose recipients might by then be losing their protections at a rate of more than 900 per day.
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While there is a pressure from the left to play hardball to try to gum up the Senate, and even punish Democratic senators who support Kavanaugh, such tactics could backfire for the 10 red-state Democrats facing reelection in states Trump won in 2016.
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A failure to take these actions will lead to inconsistent adjudication across the country, will gum up our immigration system further with appeals on this technical and unnecessarily complicated issue, and will result in the deportation of vulnerable asylum seekers to countries where they face persecution.
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Altogether, the pro-European parties, along with the Greens, will control 502 of the 751 seats, limiting the power of the populists to gum up the system, and providing leverage for Mr. Macron and his allies in their desire to shake Europe to embrace a different future.
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Altogether, the pro-European parties, along with the Greens, will control 502 of the 751 seats, limiting the power of the populists to gum up the system and providing leverage for Mr. Macron, the Liberals and the Greens, and their desire to shake Europe to embrace a different future.
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Acknowledging for the first time that negative rates gum up the works of financial intermediation, and thus the economy, Kuroda, in a speech on Monday, still held to his view that further cuts were possible while at the same time giving the impression they are now far less likely.
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"The effect is two-pronged: to hold on to folks, and make sure there is continuity of government, and an overall extension of the attempt to gum up the revolving door even further," said Julian Ha, the practice leader of executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles's government affairs and trade association teams.
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After the bill passed the House on a near party-line vote, Republicans in the Senate did everything they could to gum up the works and delay the bill — refusing to work nights or weekends, demanding that all bills be read out loud (seriously), even walking off the job last week.
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The group is demanding that Democrats on Capitol Hill uniformly oppose all Trump nominees, including Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, demand the firing of top Trump strategist Steve Bannon and use all the levers of their limited congressional power to gum up the White House agenda -- or face opposition from within their own party.
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But they went along with these stories because they figured, you know what, this will help rile up the base, it will give us an excuse to obstruct what we're trying to do, we won't be able to appoint judges, we'll gum up the works, we'll create gridlock, it will give us a political advantage.
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" He added that "if this is the step you want to take, if you're going to gum up the work, filibuster on this measure ... then you're saying to a lot of Americans out there that you're down with protecting the president to such an extent that it's violative of the law, you don't care.
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And strengthening the region's natural gas energy infrastructure will do more to address climate change than all the petty lawsuits and attempts to gum up the regulatory process by environmentalists, who seem ignorant of the fact that an array of experts believe natural gas is the planet's best bridge between high-carbon energy sources and a no-carbon future.
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Although Republicans have continued to routinely swat away Democrats in statewide races (they haven't lost one since 1990), while sending legions of unhinged conservatives to gum up the works in Washington, Democrats have taken control of every big city in the state over the past decade—a process that began in Dallas in 2006, when Democrats swept into power.
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In his short, bracing book, "It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics," David Faris, an associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University, argues that Democrats should immediately use every lever they have to gum up the works in Washington, to ensure they win full control of government in 2020.
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Sessions and the Trump administration claim they're trying to restore efficiency to a backlogged court system that poses the biggest obstacle to the large-scale swift deportation of border-crossing families and to unauthorized immigrants living in the US. But lawyers are convinced that Sessions's diktats, if they're as broad as feared, would just gum up the works further.
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Lawmakers will return to Washington in January with a full plate of controversial issues that could gum up the early days of the President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's term.
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Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Airbnb - Senate overcomes hurdles, passes massive coronavirus bill Overnight Health Care — Presented by PCMA — Last-minute complaints threaten T coronavirus aid deal | What's in the package | Pelosi scrambles to secure quick passage | Expanded testing shows signs of strain Pelosi: Democrats eyeing more cash payments in next emergency bill MORE (D-Calif.) on Tuesday said she's hopeful Congress can reach on a deal a massive coronavirus relief package by day's end, but warned that Republican "poison pills" could gum up the process and prompt House Democrats to move their own legislation.
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