"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.
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.
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.
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.
When White House officials started pointing out to reporters recent remarks by the Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, that he wished Republicans had been able to obstruct more, Mr. McConnell's office fired off e-mails standing behind the remarks.
But Pompeo, a former three-term congressman from Kansas, maintained that his views on gay marriage do not obstruct him from being able to treat all people with respect.
Besides those financial costs, they obstruct individuals from being able to move on with their lives, contributing to mass incarceration, one of the great social injustices of our time.
The F-16 has a head-up display (HUD), which projects visual flight and combat information in front of the pilot without obstructing the view; being able to keep his head "out of the cockpit" improves a pilot's situation awareness.
These "scandals" are intended to distract us from the important stories that are unfolding around us, and obstruct the Obama administration from being able to accomplish anything more.
