Sentence examples for it was obstructive from inspiring English sources

"But in this case I felt it was obstructive, it was expensive, it didn't help the oak tree and it didn't help the homeowner".

As Italian bond yields fell sharply at the news of the ECB's first intervention, Mr Berlusconi tried to backtrack on his commitments to intensify austerity.If the ECB has been tepid in its support for countries that are solvent, it has been obstructive in its attitude towards the one euro-zone country that is undeniably bust.

Djanogly was put in handcuffs when the vehicle came to halt, and was obstructive when he was told to get out of the vehicle, according to McDonald.

Although Lord was helped by the artist's brother, Giacometti's widow, Annette, was obstructive – as detailed fully in Lord's memoir Some Remarkable Men (1996).

The main pulmonary impairment was obstructive feature.

Cryan – who has already announced plans to reduce the workforce by a quarter – took on a bank that had been rocked by scandals, including a record £1.7bn fine for rigging the Libor interest rate, which sparked accusations it had been obstructive towards regulators.

It is doing all it can to be obstructive.

The review team allowed a climate of distrust to develop and it was evidently obstructive towards councils in Yorkshire and the Humber who were trying to get more information.

A diagnosis of psychiatric disease according to DSM-IV [23] criteria was ruled out as it was for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome on the basis of the polysomnographic recording.

But afterwards, when you have another look, maybe study again afterwards or talk about it with somebody then it shows that it was more obstructive than beneficial, at least in my experience").

When cover is obstructive, it increases the vulnerability of foraging animals because it hinders their ability to visually detect predators (Blumstein et al. 2004; Whittingham and Evans 2004; Ebensperger and Hurtado 2005).