Sentence examples for obstructed them from inspiring English sources

He obliterated his actors under sumptuous costumes, obstructed them with cumbersome scenery and blinded them with bolts of lightning.

This risks returning the world to the stalemate that characterised the decade of climate talks from the 1997 Kyoto protocol to the 2008 accession of Barack Obama, during which the US barely took part in the negotiations or, in some cases, actively obstructed them.

The review found that the train had been operating without an important safety feature: A mechanism called the end door bypass switch was set to the "bypass" position, meaning that the doors would not open — as elevator doors do — if something obstructed them.

With George Bush's appetite for regime change whetted, there are good reasons for the supreme leader, who has the last word on foreign affairs, quietly to endorse a U-turn.Until now, it has been the reformists who have been pressing for better relations with the United States, and the conservatives, led by Mr Khamenei, who have regularly obstructed them.

Boundless aims to guide prospective citizens of our great country through the legal and procedural hoops that may otherwise have obstructed them.

An alternative assumption is that silicone droplets had filtered into the retinal arterioles and mechanically obstructed them, which is supported by the finding of silicone droplets lying within a retinal arteriole in an experimental study [ 25].

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.

This is one of seven financial-sector reforms (others cover banking and pensions) that have been awaiting approval for four years because the Communists were obstructing them.

To bring on the moment, the DPJ, which controls the Diet's upper house, hastened the passage of LDP bills rather than obstructing them.