Sentence examples for disrupting progress from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bremer said he disagreed with criticism of the planning for postwar Iraq, saying it was hard to move forward when there were people bent on disrupting progress, and "at least one country" -- referring to Iran -- interfering in Iraq's affairs.

During the 18 months since the Katine Community Partnership Project began, serious external challenges have emerged with increasingly poor and erratic drug distribution, lack of trained medical staff and equipment and the looming threat of a global recession disrupting progress.

Pro-Tibet activists in several countries focus world attention on the region by disrupting progress of the Olympic torch relay.

A chronology of key events: Pro-Tibet activists in several countries focus world attention on the region by disrupting progress of the Olympic torch relay.

They want to exploit the impatient resentments of young people in particular in order to disrupt progress and the development of democratic institutions.

As opponents start to disrupt progress, so the supporters need to change tactics and style of play, perhaps making the occasional substitution to counter the effects of the opposition.

"I hear it whispered that a small number of peers plan to stop the bill, to use our much valued free and open procedures to disrupt progress, and therefore delay the bill, and therefore use time to stop it from becoming law.

The outbreak of political conflict and violence in September 2000 disrupted progress toward the last objective.

The sixth had a very poor academic record with disrupted progress and a multitude of non-academic difficulties.

Over half of those encountering difficulty, resulting in disrupted progress or departure from the programme, could be identified by a count of two or more flags – markers of difficulty - in the first 18 months.

Ukraine has no "Kremlin", wielding authority over all-comers, but that does not make it clean or well-governed.What about the argument that economic development, at least in its early stages, is best pursued under a benign despot? Lee Kuan Yew, an ex-prime minister of Singapore, once asserted that democracy leads to "disorderly conduct", disrupting material progress.