Sentence examples for obstructed efforts from inspiring English sources

They have obstructed efforts in New York and other American cities to face the challenges of globalization and its impact on urban centers.

I watched in dismay as Republican leaders arrogantly obstructed efforts to address the growing economic crisis as millions of families contemplate poverty.

The Rev Ian Paisley, founder of the Democratic Unionists, for more than half a century obstructed efforts to reconcile Northern Ireland's warring communities before becoming first minister in a power-sharing deal.

Senator Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat, and Representative Porter Goss, a Florida Republican, the co-chairmen of the joint committee investigating the terrorist attacks, said today that they were planning to closely examine Ms. Rowley's accusations that officials at F.B.I. headquarters obstructed efforts to aggressively investigate the Moussaoui case.

A1 Report on Hariri Investigation A toughly worded United Nations report into the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri, concluded that heavy-handed Syrian interference in Lebanese affairs created the polarizing tensions that led to his death and that a deeply flawed local investigation obstructed efforts to find his killers.

These flaws, which ultimately obstructed efforts to stabilize Iraq and contributed to the large number of causalities caused by insurgents, will be discussed in greater detail below.

However, he accused the SNP administration at Holyrood of actively obstructing efforts to shed light on the Lockerbie affair.

According to volunteers on the site, French police have been obstructing efforts to upgrade the camp for two weeks.

John Wayne's heirs are suing an American university which they say is obstructing efforts to launch a proposed range of "Duke" alcoholic beverages.

Former Senator Alan K. Simpson, the other co-chairman of the commission, denounced Grover G. Norquist, the conservative antitax advocate, and AARP, the lobby for older Americans, saying both were obstructing efforts to reduce the deficit.

To a casual observer, it might have seemed that the makers of OxyContin, after years of obstructing efforts to curb the disastrous impacts of their painkiller, had finally seen the error of their ways.