Sentence examples for faced obstruction from from inspiring English sources

They have faced obstruction from the National Rifle Association in this (in 2012, the NRA lobbied for and got legislation that barred commanders from collecting information about troops' personal weapons).

Obama has faced obstruction from a large ideological core in Congress that reflexively rejects almost anything he proposes.

Mr Abbas also faces obstruction from within his own Fatah movement.

The testimony given under oath leads me to this conclusion: Had a lawyer explained the law and advised Duncan to follow it from the beginning, Andersen would not have faced obstruction charges.

He will now face obstruction charges on suspicion that he tried to pay a former Petrobras executive to stop him from giving information to authorities.

While probably feeling a lot less invincible today, he now faces obstruction of justice and trafficking charges.

The activists' problem is that in order for sanctions to take effect, all 28 EU members states have to agree, and the bloc has faced particular obstruction from Latvia and Slovenia over the inclusion of Belarusian oligarchs on the sanctions list.

The last two presidents have faced extensive obstruction of their judicial nominations.

Vijayan told a news conference the women faced no obstruction on Wednesday.

When he was struggling to push cable in the 1970s, he faced derision, not to say obstruction, from the New York-based networks.

The president's pitch on Tuesday, at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the State University of New York, will underscore the obstructions he has faced from Republicans, and at a time when critics across the political spectrum are assailing a "do-nothing Congress".