Sentence examples for as to obstruct from inspiring English sources

2) On at least two major issues where the Hamiltonians make no concessions, their positions are wrong on the merits, so as to obstruct any good the project might otherwise do.

Refusing to supplant Illinois law with a federal definition of waiver, we explained that the state court' s declaration "should bind us unless so unfair or unreasonable in its application to those asserting a federal right as to obstruct it".

The fourth and last degree of participation is that of accessory after the fact, who is punishable for receiving, concealing, or comforting one whom that person knows to have committed a crime so as to obstruct the criminal's apprehension or to otherwise obstruct justice.

In the summer of 1918, U.S. minelayers laid more than 60,000 mines (13,000 of them British) in a wide belt across 180 miles of the North Sea between Scotland and Norway, so as to obstruct the U-boats' only access from Germany to the Atlantic other than the closely guarded Channel.

What better way to highlight these endeavours than to build a new home that does as little as possible to obstruct the trees and lawns surrounding it in the Golden Gate Park, a home that touches the ground with the delicacy of a ballerina?

A long, single-story building, kept low so as not to obstruct views of Lake Michigan, will provide new exhibition space as well as a lecture hall.

The statute of 1917, punishes conspiracies to obstruct, as well as actual obstruction.

Then, she would watch the show from backstage, so as not to obstruct anyone else's view.

Despite warnings to stay away, so as not to obstruct roads and become a burden to rescuers, plenty of people found a way into the disaster zone.

Some tours take visitors inside a model two-bedroom apartment furnished in 1967, revealing clever details like how each apartment's balcony is set slightly higher than floor level, so as not to obstruct light and views of the unit below.

But so as not to obstruct the birth canal and to get the torso balanced above our feet, the spine has to curve inwards (lordosis), creating the hollow of our backs.