filibuster

filibuster

1. Your party controls the White House, has a 38+ seat margin in the House, and has the 60 Senate seats needed to overcome any filibuster.

12、民主党控制白宫，并在众议院多于共和党38个席次，在参议院要克服来自60个席位参议员的任何阻碍。

2. 3.He had become a master of evasion: his main response to criticism is to threaten, filibuster and delay.

3. 他成为一个逃避的主人: 对批评的他的主要回应是威胁, 掠夺而且延迟。

3. “Do you really think that if the situations were reversed, Republicans would have any qualms about using the filibuster?

“你真的认为如果形势相反，共和党会犹豫而不使用议事阻挠规则吗？”

4. A senator dragged the subject in as a filibuster.

一个参议员硬把这个题目拉扯进来，作为一种阻碍议事的手法。

5. Organizing or carry out of a filibuster.

为阻挠议事进行组织。

6. He had become a master of evasion: his main response to criticism is to threaten, filibuster and delay.

他一是个回避问题的老手:其回应批评的主要办法是一威胁、二阻扰、三拖延。

7. He had become a master of easion: his main response to criticism is to threaten, filibuster and delay.

他一是个回避问题的老手：其回应批评的主要办法是一威胁、二阻扰、三拖延。

8. 4.They simply threatened to filibuster until the Senate adjourns.

他们仅威胁说要发动抗争直到参议院休会。

9. They would filibuster the small country of its dictator.

他们将对这个小国的独裁者发动抗争。

10. He hadbecome a master of evasion: his main response to criticism is tothreaten, filibuster and delay.

他已是个回避问题的老手：其回应批评的主要方法是一威胁、二阻挠、三拖延。

11. But his he will allow lack the super majority supermajority required to prevent Republicans from using a parliamentary maneuver, known as a felibastor filibuster, to block legislation.

但他将缺乏压倒性多数席位，这样共和党仍然可以阻挠议案的通过。

12. But he will lack the super majority require supermajority required to prevent Republicans from using a parliamentary maneuver, known as a filibuster, to block legislation.

但是他将缺少压倒性的多数席位 ，这样共和党还是可以阻挠议案的通过。

13. But the modern system, in which the minority party uses the threat of a filibuster to block every bill it doesn't like, is a recent creation.

但是少数党使用阻扰立法的威胁阻止自己不喜欢的任何法案，这种现代的政治体制还是最近的创造。

14. There is another, grimmer history to the filibuster, though, one that carries special relevance for me.

但是，对阻挠议事行为，还有一个冷酷的历史版本，跟我有特别的关联。

15. But since the chamber is split 51-49 between Democrats and Republicans and it takes 60 votes to break a filibuster, senators could not even agree on which bills to consider.

但由于议会被民主党和共和党分占51-49个席位形成两派，而通过一项法案需获得60票才能破除阻隔[注]，所以议员们甚至连该讨论哪项议案都无法达成一致。

16. Add in the occasional support of some conservative Democrats, and Mr Bush is close to the 60 votes necessary to survive a delaying filibuster procedure-a huge achievement and advantage.

再加上一些保守的民主党成员偶尔也会支持布什，布什在参议院能够获得接近60票，足以使参议院无法有意拖延议案的通过。这是一个巨大的成功和优势。

17. But he will lack the supermajority required to prevent Republicans from using a parliamentary maneuver, known as a filibuster, to block legislation.

冗长讲话是议员们使用的一种策略，可以被用来阻挠议案的通过。

18. The Democrats in the conference knew it would be much harder to filibuster the overall crime bill than the assault weapons ban standing alone.

参加会议的民主党人知道，通过议事阻挠整个打击犯罪的法案，要比单独阻挠进攻性武器禁令困难得多。

19. In the Senate, Republicans have just enough votes to mount a filibuster and block bills.

参议院内共和党人票数刚好够动用阻挠议事程序，终止法案。

20. Harry Reid, the majority leader in the Senate, needs 60 votes to break a filibuster.

参议院多数党领袖哈里?里德需要60票才能挫败阻碍议案通过的行动。

21. Four days later, Senator Joe Biden shepherded the crime bill through the Senate, 61-38, when 6 Republicans provided the votes necessary to break a filibuster.

四天后，参议员乔.拜登的带头，打击犯罪法案以61票对38票在参议院获得通过。当时我们得到了中止议事阻挠所必需的六张共和党人的票。

22. The Democrats are hoping to make the Senate ironclad by winning a 60-40 majority, which would let them break any Republican filibuster.

因此民主党人希望通过获得参议院中的60个议席来使得他们变得铁板一块，坚不可摧，这样就可以粉碎共和党人任何阻挠。

23. 1.Filibuster is possible in the us senate, because the rules of the senate allow unlimited debate. a filibuster may be end by a cloture motion;

在美国参议院阻挠议事是可能的，因为参议院的规定允许无限制地辩论以便阻挠议事。

24. eg. Filibuster is possible in the us senate, because the rules of the senate allow unlimited debate. a filibuster may be end by a cloture motion.

在美国参议院阻挠议事是可能的，因为参议院的规定允许无限制地辩论以便阻挠议事。但可用终结动议案来将它结束。

25. POLITICIANS capable of renewing the unpopular and demoralised Republican Party are hard to find in the Senate, where they cannot even mount a filibuster these days.

如今在参议院里很难找到能够改变共和党不受欢迎且士气低落的形象的政治家了。在参议院里他们甚至都不能策划一场阻止议案的行动。

26. We could not prolong a filibuster indefinitely.

我们不能无限期地延长抗争。

27. My friend shook her head vehemently. “Do you really think that if the situations were reversed, Republicans would have any qualms about using the filibuster?” she asked.

我的朋友猛地摇头反对。“你真的认为如果形势相反，共和党会犹豫而不使用议事阻挠规则吗？”她问我。

28. In other words, don't expect Wang to filibuster on Capitol Hill anytime soon.

换句话说，不要期待王建民成为演说高手。

29. The nation's anguish over the Iraq war was kept on hold in the Senate yesterday as the Republican minority maintained serial threats of filibuster to buy time for President Bush's aimless policies.

昨日的参议院会议上，占少数席的共和党议员威胁搁置城市贫民区议案，因而民主党针对伊拉克战争的抱怨有所降温，这也为布什总统有如无头苍蝇般的政策争取了时间。

30. One who systematically blocks or interrupts a process, especially one who attempts to impede passage of legislation by the use of delaying tactics, such as a filibuster.

有组织的妨害议事的人有组织地阻碍或打断进程一个人，尤其是意在阻碍提案通过，借助一些延后的策略，如冗长的演说

31. One who systematically blocks or interrupts a process,especially one who attempts to impede passage of legislation by the use of delaying tactics,such as a filibuster.

有组织的妨害议事的人有组织地阻碍或打断进程一个人，尤其是意在阻碍提案通过，借助一些延后的策略，如冗长的演说。

32. In particular, tax increases at the federal level don’t require a two-thirds majority, and can in some cases bypass the filibuster.

比如说，在整个联邦层面上，增税就不需要得到二分之三的同意，在一些特殊情况甚至可以忽略阻碍。

33. That would give the Democrats 60 seats in the Senate, enough to prevent Republicans from a filibuster, a tactic used to prevent legislation from coming up for a vote.

民主党人也将因此在参议院占据60个席位，这样一来，他们就拥有足够的票数制止共和党通过冗长辩论的方式来阻止对某项议案进行投票的做法。

34. The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate.

民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。

35. In particular, tax increases at the federal level don't require a two-thirds majority, and can in some cases bypass the filibuster.

特别是在联邦政府层面上，增税并不需要三分之二的多数通过，有些情况下可以绕过这样的阻扰。

36. Potentially more important could the Congressional elections, which would give the Democrats a majority (filibuster blocking) 60 seats and would give them a critical edge in passing legislation.

美国国会中期选举可能更为重要，因为在美国国会中，在通过立法方面，民主党优势明显，成员居多（阻挠拦截），占据了60个席位。

37. In a stunning move, veteran Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania switched parties. That leaves Democrats one seat shy of a 60-vote filibuster -resistant majority.

老共和党宾夕法尼亚参议员改变党派，这一举动让人大跌眼镜.这使得民主党以一票之差失去一个需要60票的反对阻挠议案的通过.

38. Senator Chafee had continued to work with him, but he couldn't bring enough Republicans along to break Senator Doles filibuster.

虽然约翰.查菲参议员一直在与他一起努力，但他无法争取到足够的共和党人以打破多尔参议员的议事阻挠。

39. A conference committee to adjust differences between the two houses would be awkward, because its action would have to be approved by the Senate, and thus risk another filibuster.

要两院协商委员会来调解两个议院之间的歧见是麻烦事，因为这种行动要得到参议院批准，那样就要另冒一次以冗长演说阻碍议事进行的危险。

40. Getting to 60 votes, enough to defeat a filibuster, is still a tall order.

要想得到足够瓦解阻挠议事的60票仍是个苛求。

41. So Mr McConnell talks of using a mixture of co-operation and filibuster threats to influence the way new bills are drafted.

认识到这一点后，麦康内尔就提议，可以采取合作和阻挠 议事威胁的混合手段来影响起草法案的进程，这个办法赢得了参议院共和党人的认可。

42. The filibuster was a major obstruction to the success of their plan.

议事阻挠是他们的计划取得成功的主要障碍。

43. lack of immagination is an obstacle to one's advancement; the poverty of a district is an obstacle to good education; the filibuster was a major obstruction to the success of their plan.

贫困是推动教育的一大障碍。

44. That is always hard.So Mr McConnell talks of using a mixture of co-operation and filibuster threats to influence the way new bills are drafted.

身为参议院少数派领袖的麦康内尔，不仅地位远没奥巴马重要，在镜头前的表现也远没奥巴马自如。

45. That is the number needed to overcome a filibuster.

这就是可以压倒阻挠议案通过的那个数字。

46. 9.Republicans have the right to filibuster under centuries-old rules that this page has long defended.

长久以来的惯例是，共和党人有阻挠议案通过的权利。

47. The filibuster hadn't just stopped bills.For many blacks in the South, the filibuster had snuffed out hope.

阻挠议事行为不只是阻挠了这些法案的通过，对很多南方的黑人而言，它也扼杀了他们的希望。

48. Filibuster: The use of extreme dilatory tactics in an attempt to delay or prevent action, especially in a legislative assembly.

阻饶议事的议员:用极端拖拉的战术来延迟或防止决议形成,特别是在立法程序上。

49. It takes 60 votes out of 100 to end a filibuster, so 41 senators can block almost anything.

需要100票中的60票才能结束“阻挠议事”，所以41个参议员可以封杀几乎任何提案。

50. Filibuster sessions are rare in Hong Kong, where proestablishment lawmakers control a majority of the 60 legislative seats, generally passing government-backed policies without major obstacles.

香港立法会60个议席中，支持政府当局的议员占据多数，政府支持的政策一般都会通过，不会遇到大的障碍，会议被阻延的情况很少见。