traffic jam , also: jam *
tailback BrE
gridlock AmE

After a while they all run into a traffic jam because of the road works.

As you can probably see, we've got a bit of a traffic jam working outside at the moment.

There were the City questions, you asked if traffic jam.

To him, this traffic jam was just like his new life.

I have had a bit of a traffic jam this past year with work,' she says.

They can show everyone else how to end traffic jams.

They had a traffic jam here one day last winter.

His personal record for worst traffic jam is also three days.

If four people are waiting at a light, they think it's a traffic jam.

They find themselves in the middle of a huge traffic jam.

This is the reason of major traffic jams during the summer season.

For a fact that traffic jam was going to be there a long time.

I thought for a long time that such interest had to do with our traffic jams.

"Between 5 and 7, it was a traffic jam in here last night."

"Do you think we can make it to the car without being run over in this traffic jam?"

During the day, the whole town is a vast traffic jam.

Find someone who has been stuck in a traffic jam.

Within an hour the city turned into an enormous traffic jam.

"We had to sit for hours in a big traffic jam."

The fight had caused a traffic jam in the car park.

These traffic jams continued on and off well into 2005.

Besides, how would we get to him in the traffic jam?

Not finding her, I went back outside and ran into a traffic jam.

I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day.

Well first of all, what can you do about being stuck in a traffic jam?

But in the first half, he was not even the best tailback on the field.

At tailback I would have been one of eight or nine.

By the end of that spring, he was the No. 1 tailback.

When Johnson was hurt, he started one game at tailback.

In a clear, strong voice, the tailback addresses the room.

Last year, the nation's top high school quarterback and tailback were in Texas.

The question now is, who starts at tailback against Philadelphia?

The tailback must read the guard's block and run off that.

I was a tailback in high school and I'm used to handling the ball.

Our primary tailback was hurt and we had to go more with the pass.

There was a price to pay - huge tailbacks in each direction.

We once spent eleven days in a tailback there, and that was just to get out of the car park.

Earlier in the week, the 226-pound tailback said he hadn't made up his mind.

The tailback took off for a 75-yard touchdown run, the first of his four scores.

He's got a body of a fullback, but he wants to play tailback.

He works hard, and because the Jets have no young tailbacks, there seems to be room for him next year.

He was a tailback, a center and an end.

This should be easier, even with its two best tailbacks injured.

I imagine him - how good would he be as a tailback?"

The tailback finished the year with 25 touchdowns and 1,630 yards.

The main talent and field general has become the quarterback instead of the tailback.

The tailback was the star of the show; the quarterback blocked.

He is the fourth Yale tailback taken down by injury.

There's going to be many more tailbacks who get it after this."

He is listed as a tailback and wore jersey number 1.

But the gridlock in the industry could still get the better of him.

We've got to do something to break the gridlock in Washington.

Because with no new tax bill, just gridlock, nothing changes.

One way to break the gridlock may be to look at other states.

Also today, the gridlock in the Senate came to an end.

In its new form, it could provide an answer to the current gridlock.

Instead, he was coming across as the man who could not get the Senate out of gridlock.

That case has been in legal gridlock for nearly three years.

We are just now, after all, in gridlock over the Federal budget.

To break Washington's gridlock, legislation must come from the political center.

We have been experiencing national air gridlock for some time now.

Can he break the gridlock and lead the allies into action?

At peak hours, the road is a hair short of gridlock.

What they seem more likely to get is legislative gridlock.

Many people think the President planned for this gridlock to happen.

"Gridlock is the next best thing to having a Constitution."

Outside the community center, the parking lot is in a state of gridlock.

The result is a system on the verge of gridlock.

And the state initiatives, she said, are a way to work around the Federal gridlock on the issue.

The report added, "The financial system came close to gridlock."

This is exactly what we need to get rid of the gridlock on Congress.

Off the campaign trail, gridlock will remain the order of the day in Washington.

However, with the ongoing political gridlock in Washington, this may not be possible.

And one way to bring that about is to remind people of what gridlock does to our health.

So far as economic recovery is concerned, we seem to be in a kind of gridlock.