They are proceeding despite efforts to obstruct them.
Those driven by justice tend to be persistent – and history judges them rather more kindly than those who obstruct them.
Each of these characters are cast as visionaries against a horde of uncreative people who attempt to obstruct them.
Growing through a Facebook page, the party pledges to "support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them".
Consider when African-Americans (and other minorities) and women received the right to vote and any measures taken to obstruct them from taking advantage of that right.
For six years a committee tried to sort out bad practice in the boardroom, only for Tony Blair and his civil servants to obstruct them at every turn.
I was grateful for a calm interlude with Ockham's Razor: Tipping Point (Venue 166), five mesmerising acrobats performing within a chalk circle with long white poles that support and, at times, obstruct them – like an elegantly graphic metaphor for life.
"If the inspectors get back in, it's essentially a certainty that Saddam Hussein will try and obstruct them," said John R. Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security.
