Sentence examples for able to obstruct from inspiring English sources

"I wish we had been able to obstruct more.

You would want it to be able to obstruct the Government, to ask ministers whether they were sure that they were right, to force them to take account of inconvenient points that had been made in high-quality debates.

How awkward that the same day Mr. Aslund insists the Communists will no longer be able to obstruct market reforms, Mr. Putin joins with the Communists to renominate a Communist as speaker of Parliament.

Justice Lowell Goddard, the New Zealand judge appointed to run the long-awaited independent inquiry into child abuse within state and non-state institutions, vowed that no individual or institution however powerful would be able to obstruct her investigations.

H.M.O.s may even be able to obstruct H.I.V., which might explain why more than half of infants who suckle from infected mothers don't get infected, despite drinking virus-loaded milk for months.

Just more than a year ago Goddard opened the inquiry with a public statement that set out its enormous scale and vowed that no individual or institution would be able to obstruct her investigations.

They hand weapons to minorities to obstruct majorities: a minority in either house would be able to impede preparations for national defense as well as spending on the poor.

T2-weighted techniques are able to identify obstructing or structuring lesions.

"Even though he was breathing, in situations like that, you never know when they're going to obstruct and not be able to breathe," Larry Bucshon said.

Had it not been for electronic activists, who supplied us with news and pictures during the revolutions of Tunisia, Egypt and Syria, we would never have been able to defeat the persistent endeavour by the security agencies to obstruct our professional crews.

Charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice.