Sentence examples for could be obstructed from inspiring English sources

International inspectors could be obstructed on the ground or chemical stocks could be hidden from them.

Such collegiality was basic to almost all Roman public offices; it served to check abuses of power because one magistrate's actions could be obstructed by his colleague.

However, there are circumstances where its task could be obstructed.

Just as great quantities of fat in the body pressed upon the internal reproductive organs preventing seed from entering or slowing down its passage to the womb, so also birth could be obstructed as fat closed up the opening from the womb or squashed the birth passage, making it too 'streight' or narrow for the child to pass through.

If we take all our thoughts as authorities on the matter, we stay trapped in pre-existing beliefs that could be obstructing our full potential.

All the while we're driving at breakneck speed on a dark Nairobi highway, with our low beams barely revealing the road ahead or anything that could be obstructing it.

Windows used for light by an owner for 20 years or more could not be obstructed by the erection of an edifice or by any other act by an adjacent landowner.

The re-runs could take many weeks, and will surely be obstructed again.

As evidenced by Mrs. Clinton's cooperation throughout the inquiry and her anxious desire to speak with the Justice Department and the FBI, which finally occurred last weekend for some three hours, the Secretary could hardly be said to be obstructing justice.

In 1893 an elaborate plan was concocted by which a French expedition would march across Africa from the west coast to Fashoda (Kodok) on the upper Nile, where it was believed a dam could be constructed to obstruct the flow of the Nile waters.

During spring training, Dodger scout Kenny Myers discovered a hitch in Koufax's windup: he'd rear back so far that his vision was obstructed and he couldn't see the target.