Sentence examples for some obstructing from inspiring English sources

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Brian Burke, the Toronto Maple Leafs' influential general manager, has spoken in favor of restoring permission to defenseman to do some obstructing — what is called a bear hug rule.

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This will provide, among other things, the elimination of some obstructed seats and more space for the audience to stretch during intermissions.

The crew members came to clean up once a week, but the following week they were back for several days due to a storm that had kicked over some trees, obstructing the pond's walking path.

These facilities have been upgraded incrementally over time but the perception of sites as temporary has in some cases obstructed funding leaving some buildings in an inadequate state.

Gone will be Rosenblatt's narrow concourses, the pillars obstructing some grandstand views, and clubhouses so tiny that players dress at their hotels and walk in through the main gate.

She said she hoped Mr. Daschle's speech was an acknowledgment "that his posture at the end of the year in obstructing some of this important legislation was wrong".

This week three of the villagers who had tried to stop the demolitions were put on trial, some charged with obstructing official business.

Officers made some arrests there for various offences including obstructing police and obstructing a public highway.

Their accounts of submergence also suggest that a lesser-known technique, "water dousing", wherein interrogators dumped large volumes of cold water on detainees that in some cases obstructed breathing, was both more extensive and more similar to waterboarding than previously understood.

Just before the election, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has ruled since Mubarak's fall, slapped de facto martial law on the country, giving military police and intelligence agents the right to arrest civilians for a host of suspected crimes, some as secondary as obstructing traffic.

However, there were also some examples of carers obstructing work, for example, through not bringing children to appointments.

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