Sentence examples for and to obstruct from inspiring English sources

The red-and-whites have promised to use their power "to investigate and to obstruct".

"We denounce the attempts of some to terrify people and to obstruct the trajectory of the revolution," he said.

"They did everything they could not to cooperate and to obstruct the N.Y.P.D.," the official said of the Port Authority officers.

Grant me the strength to thwart and to obstruct, To grandstand and to stonewall, To foil and to filibuster, Until the whole thing quietly dies in committee.

Finally, those who owned or managed the means of production had acquired enormous economic power that they used to influence and control government, to manipulate an inchoate electorate, to limit competition, and to obstruct substantive social reform.

Lawmakers had endorsed the proposal to shield motorists from the gun battles that often break out between drug trafficking gangs in the slums and to obstruct robbers who assault commuters.

Mr. Chang pleaded guilty to making illegal contributions to Senator Torricelli's 1996 campaign and to obstructing federal investigators.

Mr. Moon was convicted the next year of tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice and sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Mr. Davis, 60, is charged with conspiracy to commit mail, wire and securities fraud, and conspiracy to obstruct a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.

But other villagers along the route, unhappy with payments they have or have not received for their land, continue to resist the project, erecting blockades of barbed wire and boulders to obstruct traffic and further construction.

Even though he is not a defendant here, moreover, Levandowski's assertion of his Fifth Amendment privilege has obstructed and continues to obstruct both discovery and defendants' ability to construct a complete narrative as to the fate of Waymo's purloined files.