Mr Paterson repeated several times that he had inherited a log jam from Labour and tried his best to steer a way forward.

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"We've been waiting eight months for these people to get together in the Senate and the House, " Clinton said of the congressional log jam on gun safety legislation.

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There was already a sense that the plan would not be enough to break the log jam in the credit markets, where banks are even refusing to lend to each other.

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Coach Dwane Casey will have to deal with a bit of a log jam with Gay, DeMar DeRozan, Terrence Ross, Landry Fields and Alan Anderson as wing players with similar skill sets.

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He said the matter was likely to go to the European Court of Justice, and appealed to the upcoming Cypriot presidency to "knock heads together" in the Council to end the "legislative log jam".

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The Fed has tried to pump money into the banking system to break the log jam, first by opening up its discount window to deposit banks and then by inventing a new term auction program for them.

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And yet, once we were past the inevitable log-jam on the Peripherique, traffic in the city moved relatively freely.

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