Sentence examples for obstruct passage from inspiring English sources

Kyrgyz officials promise they would never obstruct passage.

If the purpose of a picket line is to obstruct passage in and out of the offending place of business, then our presence there, along Routes 1 and 9, skirting the airport, was entirely symbolic, since we obstructed nothing.

PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID HANDSCHUH If the purpose of a picket line is to obstruct passage in and out of the offending place of business, then our presence there, along Routes 1 and 9, skirting the airport, was entirely symbolic, since we obstructed nothing.

But some advocates worry that Republican leaders may try to obstruct passage of the legislation.

Republicans obstruct passage of laws at a record pace, and then are going to campaign on the fact that Democrats can't get anything done.

Migration barriers may obstruct passage directly or negate otherwise adaptive benefits of homing and assortative mating indirectly [ 15- 17].

Congressional Republicans, resolute in their commitment to deny the Democrats anything that looks like an accomplishment in an election year, have spent the week obstructing passage of the Veterans Job Corps Act of 2012.

In their complaint the violists charge that Fader has long intimidated them and other women in the orchestra "by glaring at them, by making inappropriate body movements, comments, grunting, sucking and 'tsh tsh' noises at them, by physically obstructing passage in the hallways and blocking access in and out of the viola section".

Workers closed Lock 27 just north of St . Louisafter discovering that a protection cell — a vertical, rock-filled steel cylinder against which barges rub to help align them for proper entry into the lock — had split open, spilling tons of rock into the channel and obstructing passage.

This makes it a criminal offence to wilfully obstruct free passage along a highway, without lawful authority or excuse.

When you obstruct the passage of a white van, you are often preventing the driver traveling freely on what he perceives to be his road".