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.
Village chiefs elected by the villagers themselves have little power to obstruct them.The party's refusal to allow private land ownership has eased the takeover of rural land for industrial use, urban expansion or the construction of transport infrastructure.
The major political ideologies Arab nationalism, political Islam and now perhaps violent jihadism transcend national borders.Instead Arab rulers have wielded the apparatus of state power to obstruct any potential challenge, centralising all decisions and fomenting and exploiting divisions wherever possible.
This acceptance was manifested in a constitutional structure that gave the Bosnian Serb region quasi-independence and the power to obstruct the emergence of an effective central government in Sarajevo.
Najib, who has used every ounce of his power to obstruct investigations into the scandal – a charge he denies – is not mentioned by name in the US lawsuits, which refer to him as "Malaysian Official 1".
