Sentence examples for effort to obstruct from inspiring English sources

He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice, and he rejected it.

They have been leading a determined effort to obstruct the formal appointment of Edward Luck, a professor at Columbia University, as a special UN adviser on the issue.

"We are unsurprised they would resort to anonymous attacks on public servants in a misguided effort to obstruct the Administration's efforts to better secure and protect our nation".

Rather than being a prescient effort to promote consumer regulation, this report was seen at the time as the exact opposite: an effort to obstruct serious regulation.

When the bureau began investigating his activities, he also misled investigators about the affairs and contacted two witnesses in an effort to obstruct the investigation, the report said.

He agreed with Goodell that senior Saints coaches "conceived, encouraged and directed" the bounty program and that coaches and managers "led a deliberate, unprecedented and effective effort to obstruct the N.F.L.'s investigation" into the program.

They are proceeding despite efforts to obstruct them.

It is an effort -- another effort in a series of efforts to obstruct the work of these counties to count the votes of the people of Florida.

Mr. Bethune's arrest was top news in Japan, where Sea Shepherd's efforts to obstruct whaling ships receive wide publicity, none of it positive.

BP is Europe's fiercest corporate opponent of action on climate change, according to a ranking of companies by their efforts to obstruct carbon-cutting initiatives.

The demonstrators were tried and convicted under the Espionage Act, which included provisions barring efforts to obstruct enlistment in the armed forces.