English-French translations for logjam

• bourrage
• embâcle
• embouteillage
• impasse
  Il faut sortir de cette impasse. That logjam needs to be unblocked.
  Ceci pourrait contribuer à mettre un terme à l’impasse à laquelle nous sommes confrontés. That may help to break the logjam we are facing there.
  Le Conseil a confirmé sa position afin de montrer qu’une chose promise est une chose due et qu’il ne créait pas une impasse dans un domaine essentiel pour l’innovation. The Council confirmed its position to show that a deal is a deal and that it was not creating a logjam in a key area for innovation.

Definition of logjam

• An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts

Examples

• Efforts to amend the law got sidetracked in an administrative logjam.
• A step forward for the minimum wage increase this afternoon, as the Senate cleared the logjam of the Republican filibuster. [http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/1/30/13150/5672]

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• catalogue
• biologist
• biology
• psychologist
• mythology
• Cologne
• dialogue