Sentence examples for obstruct the passage from inspiring English sources
The two forts trained their cannon toward the Hudson, to further obstruct the passage of British ships.
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".
U.S. (1895) affirmed a sentence of two years' imprisonment for conviction of conspiracy to obstruct the passage of the mails, although the maximum sentence for the crime of obstructing the mails itself would have been a fine only, not to exceed $100.
The second perspective explicitly considers the inter-FG repeat contacts, which obstruct the passage for inert material, but transiently and locally melt when an NTR binds the corresponding FG motifs.
In a similar manner, the "oily-spaghetti" model (Macara 2001) postulates that noninteracting FG-domains are pushed aside by cargo complexes but otherwise obstruct the passage of passive cargo (Fig. 4d).
Pick up any toys, papers or other objects that will obstruct the passage of the vacuum cleaner.
The looters narrative was used to justify suspending rescue attempts while simultaneously obstructing the passage of survivors from New Orleans, the better to build up forces to impose martial law on the city's luckless captive inhabitants.
By virtue of its location and stupendous height, the Great Himalaya Range obstructs the passage of cold continental air from the north into India in winter and also forces the southwesterly monsoon (rain-bearing) winds to give up most of their moisture before crossing the range northward.
Nowhere but obstructing the passage of any meaningful legislation that could have fixed our broken immigration system.
WASHINGTON -- Two prominent old-line Senate Republicans threw down the gauntlet to their more conversative colleagues on Tuesday, challenging them to stop obstructing the passage of a budget.
To fulfil its role as a safeguard against any parliamentary or executive propensity to majoritarian or sectarian politics, it may constrict the Government's freedom to discriminate against racial and religious communities by obstructing the passage of new laws and regulations that it deems to contain such "differentiating measures".
