He also argued Haroun never intended to obstruct and there was no obstruction.
Indeed not.Mr Abbas called on America to prevent a repetition of assassination bids which, he said, were "intended to obstruct and sabotage the political process".
At a news conference in Moscow, President Dmitri A. Medvedev said Russia in no way intended to obstruct peacekeeping in Afghanistan by the American-led coalition.
He also was disciplined under the collective bargaining agreement "for attempting to cover up his violations of the program by engaging in a course of conduct intended to obstruct and frustrate the office of the commissioner's investigation".
Still, the judges overturned the convictions, saying that the prosecutors had failed to prove the specific charge that the officers had intended to obstruct a grand jury when they misled investigators.
On Friday, Ms. Adlong provided testimony that challenged some of the government's evidence that Mr. Duncan intended to obstruct an official inquiry when he invoked the firm's document policy.
Health Minister Ana María Pastor said that the government did not intend to obstruct such research but that, under revisions in a law on assisted reproduction, the research must be supervised by the national government.
What we must conclude from this reaction is that the government is determined to preserve these powers at any cost and in the process will abuse laws that were never intended to obstruct the legitimate business of journalists to hold those in power to account.
O.K.?" The jury, which has been deliberating for five days, is trying to determine whether Mr. Quattrone intended to obstruct a government investigation when he sent an e-mail message on Dec. 5, 2000, endorsing a colleague's directions to "clean up those files" just days after learning of an inquiry into how the bank allocated initial stock offerings.
