This is why most Flemish parties now opt for so-called homogenous departments, to avoid policies being taken on different levels that interfere with and obstruct one another.
The league tried to enforce parity twenty years ago, by permitting players to obstruct one another: any player who crossed a team's defensive blue line had a stick held against his midsection in the manner of a subway turnstile.
The issues for these patients are essentially the same as for patients with one fixator, except that mobility is disproportionately more difficult as the two fixators tend to obstruct one another.
The group had a bonfire going on the side of the road, as well as a tipi obstructing one lane of traffic but not the other on Shannonville Road.
But the other countries of the trade organization, including some of the closest allies of the United States, strongly criticized the Bush administration for obstructing one of the few international trade agreements that could be said to address humanitarian and economic concerns.
For the remaining arrangements, both the outage probability and the average error probability will remain approximately equal to the values obtained without obstructing one of the branches.
Eventually they partly obstruct one's view of the crucial recognition scene between estranged brother and sister.
The allusion seems to be to spread a blanket over the head to obstruct one's figurative sight, similar to the origin of hoodwink; other speculation goes as far as to suggest pulling a person's hairpiece over his face.
457 (ED La.1940); see also ante, at 358. "To conspire to defraud the United States means primarily to cheat the Government out of property or money, but it also means to interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest.
in regard to that statute, that while "[t]o conspire to defraud the United States means primarily to cheat the Government out of property or money,... it also means to interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest". 265 U.S., at 188, 44 S.Ct., at 512.
It was first seen in a Jamestown (N.Y). Journal in 1839, at about the same time the term O.K. appeared: "That lawyer has been trying to spread the wool over your eyes". The allusion seems to be to spread a blanket over the head to obstruct one's figurative sight, similar to the origin of hoodwink; other speculation goes as far as to suggest pulling a person's hairpiece over his face.
