Mr Sabahi's people complained of government registry offices obstructing their effort to gather the 25,000 signatures needed to qualify, while Mr Sisi's men effortlessly presented nearly 200,000 of them.Moreover, decades of dictatorship followed by years of turbulence have left many Egyptians wary of politics or yearning for a strongman.
They contended on Tuesday that the police had obstructed their efforts to gather evidence, forcing the prosecution to rely on showing video of police violence that was previously shown on private television networks.
Democrats said Republicans had obstructed their efforts to address a most crucial issue, while Republicans said the Democrats were never serious about passing the bill, as evidenced by their unwillingness to allow a serious and lengthy debate over amendments.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination based on race in the United States, but while legally black people were allowed the vote, some southern state officials obstructed their efforts to register.
"Of the half-dozen current and former officials who confirmed the existence of the investigations, some said they were providing information because they feared the new Administration would obstruct their efforts," the Times said.
The creditors that have kept Hynix Semiconductor on life support since the Korean economic crisis have decided to take control of the company's board, which has obstructed their efforts to sell Hynix's main businesses to pay off debt.
The investigators also said that while the company itself had been "very responsible and has given us their full support", the firm's operation in China "tried to pay bribes" in order to "obstruct" their efforts "in exposing their bribery behaviours".
TreeHugger describes the book as "a whirlwind tour through the state of climate change, the media that so badly neglects it, the politicians who attempt to address it (and those who obstruct their efforts and ignore [the] science), and the clean energy solutions that could help get us out of the mess".
BP is Europe's fiercest corporate opponent of action on climate change, according to a ranking of companies by their efforts to obstruct carbon-cutting initiatives.
Their efforts are obstructed first by a simple misunderstanding -- guests arrive to find their unprepared hostess in her satin dressing-gown -- and then by progressively weirder occurrences involving international drug-smuggling, surprise military exercises and a succession of dreams.
