Sentence examples for physically obstruct from inspiring English sources

Type one is obstructive apnea, where the uvula and surrounding tissues physically obstruct your throat.

DNA adducts will physically obstruct the polymerase and reduce product yield until the lesions have been removed or repaired.

Pore blockers bind to the external vestibule of the channel and physically obstruct the movement of ions by occluding the ion-conducting pore.

PcG-mediated transcriptional silencing already appears a much more complex process than the antiquated view that PRCs physically obstruct transcription factor binding to DNA, and ongoing studies refine positioning of PcG function in the proper cellular context.

Among the ~28 million CpG dinucleotide sites that are susceptible to methylation in the human genome, approximately 10% are in the promoter regions of genes, in which they may physically obstruct the binding of transcriptional proteins to the gene or may be indirectly regulated by the recruitment of methyl-CpG-binding domain proteins through cytosine methylation [ 14- 16].

The specific mode of AChE interaction with PrP fibrils, as detailed before, may physically obstruct acetylcholine entry to the acylation site, and/or reduce its affinity by charge repulsion, thus explaining the inhibition of AChE enzymatic activity observed in the presence of fibrillar conformers, or in different prion-infected mice tissues.

"Snow will have physically obstructed workers at manufacturers and their end customers from getting to work," said Alan Clarke at BNP Paribas.

It added that China had created a serious risk of collision when its patrol boats had physically obstructed Philippine fishing vessels.

The fluid, rolling momentum of their choreography is physically obstructed by the furniture on stage, across which they have to navigate a balancing, spinning, toppling path.

Chinese security agents desperate to keep one of the country's best-known human rights activists hidden from us," reported Grammaticas, with footage showing cameramen being physically obstructed from filming in the hospital.

In their complaint the violists charge that Fader has long intimidated them and other women in the orchestra "by glaring at them, by making inappropriate body movements, comments, grunting, sucking and 'tsh tsh' noises at them, by physically obstructing passage in the hallways and blocking access in and out of the viola section".