Perhaps this is best illustrated by the bullying behaviours most cited within academic contexts – threats to professional status and obstructive behaviours, designed to inhibit employees achieving their goals.
Some on the cities' side want the department for communities and local government abolished, seeing it as an obstructive middleman, while their Charter for Local Freedom calls for an independent body to oversee the transfer of powers.
A postmortem revealed she died from ventricular hypertrophy (thickening of the cardiac muscle of the heart) and obstructive sleep apnea due to morbid obesity, Hull coroner's court heard.
If anything, the willingness to accept high-profile sponsorship from fossil fuel companies suggests that the art establishment has been worse than indifferent, and actively obstructive to the challenge of tackling climate upheaval.
Related: Corporate, patronising and obstructive: what journalists think about NGOs Above all, journalists are seen as potentially vital allies in getting the issues across to the public.
They have reluctantly accepted his invitation to a bipartisan summit on health reform at the White House next week (voters do not like the minority party to be entirely obstructive).
Yet the fragility of his mandate emboldened his Republican foes in Congress, who would not have dared be so obstructive if they had felt that Mr Obama had made a case that had won over the centre ground, and the country had massed at the president's side.This would apply to Mr Romney just as much, should he win.
How long, he asks rhetorically, did it take the government machine to produce this mound, much of it inessential or obstructive?
Twenty-five prison guards were suspended from the Scrubs earlier this year, of whom 12 have been charged with assaulting inmates.In his report, Sir David blamed "weak management and obstructive unions" for the prison's spiral of decline.
In fact the UN process might be better characterised, as per the Saudis' obstructive example, as the sum of many countries' efforts not to cool the planet.
IN PAKISTAN, as in other poor parts of the world, mobile telecoms are vital to the country's development, bypassing obstructive bureaucrats and bringing services directly to the masses from banking to voter registration.
