The major political ideologies Arab nationalism, political Islam and now perhaps violent jihadism transcend national borders.Instead Arab rulers have wielded the apparatus of state power to obstruct any potential challenge, centralising all decisions and fomenting and exploiting divisions wherever possible.
In the pan-Arab daily Asharq al Awsat, Abderrahman al-Rashed said militants should not try to obstruct the potential peace with violence: "They must not try to destroy the talks now, thereby destroying the chance to prove that their suspicions were right, or that the other side's promises were sincere".
Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, seeks to recapture faded glories, to fill the perceived vacuum left by American retreat from the Middle East (and send a subtle message that Moscow, unlike Washington, stays loyal to its dictator friends), to make money from arms sales and to obstruct the potential emergence of an Islamist-hued Sunni alliance along its southern borders.
Kirk is also facing pressure from conservatives to obstruct a potential nominee from Obama. .
During this process, the attack replaces the deleted files with JPEG images - obstructing any potential file recovery by the victim.
Obviating the biological properties, specifically toxicity, of these compounds has obstructed their potential application as sophisticated designer biocides.
The fact that powerful and durable catalytically driven microjets require toxic fuel for their actuation significantly obstructs their potential in medical and environmental applications and limits them to sensing and diagnostic procedures.
If we take all our thoughts as authorities on the matter, we stay trapped in pre-existing beliefs that could be obstructing our full potential.
The cutter uses the same knife for several girls and often stitches the labia over the vagina, leaving only the smallest of openings, causing untold complications in adulthood and childbirth, often resulting in obstructed labor and potential death of both mother and child.
"Calls to streamline the ESA and to rely exclusively on FWS to identify and list species might mean that a significant number of species that deserve legal protection -- especially those that are politically unpopular because of the potential to obstruct development projects -- would be left out in the cold".
