This is Cambodia, but it could be anywhere in the developing world, because Suan and her family are trapped in an all too ubiquitous cycle: they are ensnared in a vicious circle in which poverty obstructs education, creating illiteracy and a lack of skills which, in turn, perpetuate poverty and so on ceaselessly until some external factor disrupts this pattern.
Whenever a timid ignorance obstructs progress, the loss is all of ours.
One proposes that the pore closes when a plug shaped like a ball and chain obstructs the hole.
In this case, "public use" became something like "economic benefit": private property may be taken if it obstructs a community's development.New London did not use a blight designation.
It obstructs "the understanding of the historical rights and wrongs…as much as it illuminates them".
The anaphylactic shock provoked is always nasty and can, if the swelling obstructs someone's airways, kill.Youngsters who have peanut allergy, and their parents, may therefore be interested in a study by Andrew Clark and Pamela Ewan of Cambridge University Hospitals, which is reported in this week's Lancet.
"Whoever obstructs Hong Kong's decision will be branded a villain of history," read one deleted post.
Worse still, not only is Germany unable to cut interest rates, but the EU's stability and growth pact also obstructs any fiscal easing.
He obstructs America's foreign policy, sells arms to its enemies and cosies up to its rivals.
Like Michael Corleone, Bashar Assad is an improbable successor, who promised to make the family enterprise legitimate but who operates in an environment that obstructs any such transformation.Five years into Bashar's reign, there is still little consensus about his beliefs on important issues or how much real power he exercises.
