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Verb(1) obstruct or hinder any discussion(2) engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate

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(1) They seem to have made a decision to stonewall me in the hopes that I will simply go away.(2) Each and every time I'd try to arrange a meeting, she'd stonewall me.(3) This allows the airline to stonewall the workers' demands for improved living standards while amassing profits.(4) They just don't want to know and they don't care, they stonewall us.(5) If you try to phone them, the line may go dead; if you get through you are stonewalled .(6) That hasn't stopped him from trying to market his album, even if commercial radio stations have been stonewalling him.(7) When she confronted Don, he stonewalled her and limited her access to the business records.(8) This went on four times, with Wallace getting more desperate as he believed Bill was stonewalling him.(9) For six days the company has stonewalled customers and the press with vague explanations or, worse, no explanation at all.(10) But when state prosecutors stonewalled the case, the Justice Department flatly refused to bring charges.(11) By acknowledging nothing, denying everything and stonewalling every investigation, we are all therefore complicit in a war crime of unprecedented gravity.(12) But even a good question can be stonewalled or sidestepped.(13) I have to agree that we tend to be terrifically good stonewallers in the media when we get in trouble.(14) All questions were to be stonewalled , on the logical grounds that any comment would prejudice the judicial inquiry set to be announced by the Ministry of Defence.(15) The White House is going to pay a heavy political price for the months it spent denying and stonewalling the problem.(16) The bankers refused to give an inch and just stonewalled us.