Sentence examples for serves to obstruct from inspiring English sources
He says of this state that it "does not consist so much in adding some miraculous external element to our consciousness; rather, it requires a subtracting from our minds and lives of much material that serves to obstruct insight".
Mr. Abbas, widely known as Abu Mazen, called the Israeli action a "terrorist attack" that served to "obstruct and sabotage the political process," his office said in a statement.
The national security paranoia that has defined its policy toward the Arab world is dated, and no longer helps Israel in dealing with its regional threats: in fact, this paranoia is serving only to obstruct what is left of a lagging peace process.
The relocation of hotspots to promoter regions in PRDM9 knockout mice [ 21], and in canines that lack a functional PRDM9 [ 25, 26], suggests that PRDM9 serves to divert local recombination away from gene promoters where recombination may obstruct transcription.
I don't want to obstruct their work," he says.
They don't have to obstruct at this point.
"I think anybody that tries to obstruct justice is not serving the public well," Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday before the Salute to Israel Parade, when he was asked about the case.
These men were not trained in police work, and served to crowd the area in front of the President and obstruct the views of the detectives and Secret Service.
These efforts have only served to raise the prospect of the president facing the additional charge of attempting to obstruct of justice.
Such collegiality was basic to almost all Roman public offices; it served to check abuses of power because one magistrate's actions could be obstructed by his colleague.
Based on government statistics and interviews with villagers across Malawi this article argues that customary matrilineal and patrilineal land tenure systems serve to weaken security of land tenure for some family members as well as obstructing the creation of gender-neutral inheritance of lands.
