Sentence examples for power to obstruct from inspiring English sources

The insurance commissioner of Georgia has said "we are doing everything in our power" to obstruct it.

The audiencia, a court that shared the viceroy's administrative responsibilities, often used its power to obstruct him.

The upper-house Legislative Council was elected from a narrow franchise base and had much power to obstruct legislation.

Although the Senate, by a single vote, failed to remove him from office, Johnson's power to obstruct the course of Reconstruction was gone.

To a certain extent, of course, the Republicans are using their power to obstruct in the Senate because a Democratic President is in office.

Those arrangements, fortuitously, also give the Democratic half of the Senate the power to obstruct a tax proposal which, in its disputed parts, comes down to greed.

One of the worst peace deals in recent history, the Dayton agreement has legitimised the genocide by creating the Bosnian Serb Republic, Republika Srpska (a state in all but name and under direct control of Belgrade), thus allowing it definitive powers to obstruct any moves towards Bosnian-EU integration.

In the case of Richard Nixon, who resigned before the House could vote to impeach him and have him tried by the Senate, they included "using the powers of his high office" to obstruct justice, and failing by his use of government agencies to investigate his enemies to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed".

In fact, congressional Republicans are limited in their ability to obstruct Obama by the Constitution's separation of powers.

At the time they seemed like zealots who were trying to use what little power they had to obstruct Mr Schwarzenegger and the Democratic majority.

With his majority enhanced and a crop of frustrated young Democrats pushing him hard, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, says he will move on the first day of the 113th Congress to diminish the power of Republicans to obstruct legislation.