GW 5.17pm BST Afternoon summary Photograph: JOHN STILLWELL/AFP/Getty Images Time to recap: Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has blasted banks for obstructing efforts to reform the financial sector.
The moves came after an unusual campaign in the media accusing officials of incompetence and corruption and blaming the religious police for obstructing efforts to save the girls by barring male rescue workers from their school.
He said in a recent interview that Muslim Brotherhood members on the council were obstructing efforts to centralize financing for the opposition because they wanted to directly control the Free Syrian Army, which is currently more of a loose coalition of armed opposition groups than a unified force.
At Copenhagen, Harper earned the Fossil Fuel Award for obstructing efforts to address climate change.
According to volunteers on the site, French police have been obstructing efforts to upgrade the camp for two weeks.
It's one thing for the Bush administration to have been a disaster on the global warming issue, denying the existence of the problem for years, and then subsequently obstructing efforts to address it.
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.
However, he accused the SNP administration at Holyrood of actively obstructing efforts to shed light on the Lockerbie affair.
The Red Cross says that even now Israel is continuing to obstruct efforts to recover the dead and search for any lingering survivors.
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.
Members of Congress who obstruct efforts to close the facility, given the stakes involved for our security, have abdicated their responsibility to the American people.
