Sentence examples for to obstruct them from inspiring English sources

They are proceeding despite efforts to obstruct them.

Each of these characters are cast as visionaries against a horde of uncreative people who attempt to obstruct them.

Consider when African-Americans (and other minorities) and women received the right to vote and any measures taken to obstruct them from taking advantage of that right.

For six years a committee tried to sort out bad practice in the boardroom, only for Tony Blair and his civil servants to obstruct them at every turn.

The inspectors, said Mr Blix, were not supposed to play "catch as catch can"; they could verify that Iraq was disarming only if the Iraqis produced their WMD paraphernalia for disposal, or explained just how and when it had been disposed of.If a few extra weeks of inspections really could heal the rift in the Security Council, Mr Bush would be foolish to obstruct them.

The later study conducted by Captain Diaz de Soria in the 1950s suggests that water did enter from the gun ports of the lower battery, ripped off in the collision with Culloden and shattered by artillery fire, and that the crew failed to obstruct them with temporary contrivances.

But there was little doubt as to what Bush expected once the inspectors got to work: either Saddam would obstruct them or they would find his weapons, and one way or the other, in short order, the Iraqis would be shown to be in "material breach" of the Council's resolutions.

A number of novel imaging modalities have been developed but they are still in the initial stages of development and serious drawbacks obstruct them from offering their benefits to the medical field.

Those driven by justice tend to be persistent – and history judges them rather more kindly than those who obstruct them.

Growing through a Facebook page, the party pledges to "support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them".

According to Mr Altman, however, "while Governor Bush did not create the problems, he worked hard to obstruct solving them".When he was in the White House, George Bush senior (who also started his working life in the oil industry) said he wanted to be known as "The Environmental President".