Exempel på filibuster

• They can do so because of arcane rules that require a 60-vote majority to stop a filibuster.

• Last year the Nevada Senator staged a one-day filibuster, standing on the Senate floor and talking for eight hours and 35 minutes straight.

• During the civil rights battles of the 1950s and early 1960s, he defeated many anti-discrimination bills through filibusters and other delaying tactics.

• He threatened a last-minute filibuster against the measure.

• Of course, by then he realized that his filibuster-based argument did not in fact hold.

• A filibuster can never be successfully waged unless the time for adjournment is definitely and irrevocably fixed.

• There would be no limitation on the adjournment and, hence, no possibility of a filibuster succeeding.

• The lengthy filibuster gave the butchers ample time to prepare their defence.

• And, in the last several decades, the use of filibusters has increased substantially.

• And even the filibuster itself is an unintended consequence of what she sees as more or less an historical accident in 1806, not a strategically motivated intentional act.

• And, in the end, they were successful, as a filibuster was launched that prevented the bill from receiving a floor vote for the remainder of the short session.

• Apart from piracy there is a danger of the landing on the mainland of armed forces known as filibusters.

• Others, less charitably, would describe it as a filibuster.

• It is not because we on this side are filibustering, but because we have a genuine fear that a mistake is being made here.

• Dilatory motions have succeeded one another, and the result was a filibuster.

• We were not planning to filibuster it into the small hours of the morning.

• It was a dreadful filibuster which added nothing to the debate.

• Was it some filibuster that was preventing any business getting through?

• I was grateful that he began by saying that he was not filibustering.