Sentence examples for obstructing change from inspiring English sources

Farrakhan knows this only too well, because he has spent most of his life obstructing change in the Nation.

As householders and businesses braced themselves for massive disruption, business secretary Lord Mandelson said he was "beyond anger" with the union for obstructing change and modernisation.

Mr. Ignatyev will succeed Viktor Geraschenko, whose t two terms or more than five years as central bank governor were spent obstructing change.

Barack Obama, a former constitutional law professor, seems to have a more measured view of the role the Supreme Court has tended to play in American democracy: ratifying social change that has emerged from political activism, rather than unilaterally causing or obstructing change on its own.

Governments, keen to guard the national patrimony, have also obstructed change.The bosses of the big paper companies explain the merger wave with visionary strategic statements.

"There can be little doubt of the true purpose of Eastlake's charter provision it is to obstruct change in land use, by rendering such change so burdensome as to be prohibitive.

But even if he manages to win, Mr Prodi will find it hard to introduce reforms not least because his coalition embraces no fewer than nine parties, several of which will obstruct change.

Old laws and prosecutors, the Islamists say, are protecting loyalists and holdovers while they obstruct change from within the bureaucracy and conspire with the opposition to stir up unrest.

He may relish the Democrats' discomfiture, but if he continues to obstruct change he risks losing a marvelous campaign issue that could help strengthen his party's slim Senate majority.

The Japan he took up the leadership of in 2001 had lain in the doldrums for 11 years, never having had the crisis that might have forced it into reform, but also never achieving a gradual, consistent, consensual reform either, thanks to the power of special-interest groups to obstruct change.

Resilience, however, is a variable, and its effects may be to channel rather than simply to obstruct change.