Sentence examples for once obstructed from inspiring English sources

Barrameda derives from an Arabic word signifying "sandy gateway" and alludes to the sandbank that once obstructed the navigation of the Guadalquivir 60 miles (100 km) upstream to Sevilla, for which Sanlúcar served as the anteport in the days of Sevilla's monopoly of colonial trade.

Once obstructed from this second-floor office, the window was previously utilized as a source of exterior illumination by the Scottish Rite Masonic order who originally inhabited this Millard Sheets-designed theater and meeting hall, now the Marciano Art Foundation.

It's ease and utility clears the once obstructed path of neuronal studies.

As a veteran of integration and voting rights battles, she went on to fight for economic rights, once obstructing a garbage truck in support of striking workers.

Foreign journalists, once heavily obstructed, could move freely (including into the Herald's newsroom).

After a contentious meeting at the White House between President Obama and Congressional leaders from both parties, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, accused Republicans of once again obstructing every effort by Democrats to govern.

Much of today's basic needs — sewage, power and things like that — become heavily obstructed once they're up and running.

Co-crystallization of CSE with PAG unveiled that PAG once bound obstructs, via steric hindrance, the accessibility of the substrate to the active site of the enzyme by occupying the space of the side chain of the substrate.

Beams and columns that once held up the structure but obstructed the view are gone.

"Once a person's airway is obstructed by a glob of macerated pancake paste, rescue becomes exponentially more difficult," the lawsuit said.

The observers have circulated fairly freely, but there have been times when the Syrian military obstructed their work, including once when they were stopped at a checkpoint, the diplomat said.