filibuster

常見例句

雙語例句

• If all of them choose to support a filibuster, then you take it to the American people and show the obstructionists for what they are.
  如果他們人人都選擇支持國會拖延方案，那么你可以向美國人民展示這些阻礙者到底是什么人。
• Indeed, the practice has been formalised: Senate rule number 22 states that a filibuster can be overridden only by a vote of 60 of the 100 senators.
  的確，慣例已被約定促成：參議院第22條規(guī)則規(guī)定，100位參議員中至少有60位投反對票才能推翻一項阻撓議事。
• But they would need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, and an election year gives the Republicans an extra incentive to use the hearings to score political points.
  不過民主黨需要60票來壓倒阻撓議案。 即將到來的大選年對共和黨人來說是額外的獎勵，意味著他們可以用聽證會的方式給政客打分。

原聲例句

• In 2005,then-minority Senate Democrats mounted an unsuccessful effort to filibuster the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who was nominated by former-President George W.Bush.
• Joining the filibuster at the time was then-Senator Barack Obama.
• Representative Candace Miller was among a succession of Republicans conducting the equivalent of a filibuster Tuesday in the House, assailing the health care proposal and the president's handling of the economy.

權威例句

• There's one group of fiscal conservatives nearly enough to sustain a filibuster of the spending bill.
  NPR: Marketplace Report: Senate Considers War Funding
• So we'll have to see what the Senate actually does, whether Republicans filibuster this bill.
  WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefings
• They say it's not a filibuster, but Majority Leader Frist said he was very disappointed.
  NPR: Senate Delays Vote on Bolton U.N. Nomination
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