Sentence examples for while obstructing from inspiring English sources

So why is it desperate to force fracking on unwilling communities while obstructing the renewables schemes they desire?

Negligent homicide, which Mr. Allen said would involve a "substantial lapse of due care," carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail, while obstructing official business carries a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail.

Moscow, keen to assert its diplomatic and economic influence in the Middle East, has been a major provider of conventional weaponry to Syria while obstructing western attempts to penalise Assad with sanctions for the use of force against civilians.

The prospect of a war crimes inquiry raises the political stakes for Obama significantly: assenting to the investigation would be likely to trigger domestic political backlash, while obstructing it would leave the US open to accusations that it is covering up an incident which MSF has called an attack on the law of war itself.

As a recent alumna of Ithaca College, I can attest to a campus environment that boasts a liberal mindset while obstructing students from taking black, Asian or Latino studies courses through the implementation of a strict core curriculum, hiring too few people of color for tenure-track faculty positions and making no adjustments to the mental health program that would benefit students of color.

The Little Sisters of the Poor were not trying to obtain religious freedom--which they already had--but instead were trying to exempt themselves from the ordinary responsibilities of civil society, while obstructing their employees' access to contraception.

The looters narrative was used to justify suspending rescue attempts while simultaneously obstructing the passage of survivors from New Orleans, the better to build up forces to impose martial law on the city's luckless captive inhabitants.

To determine the optimum positioning of a 70-degree telescope to provide a maximum view of the palate and posterior pharynx for observers while minimally obstructing the direct view of a surgeon.

The whole expensive-looking thing ends with Swift illogically squaring up to fight Selena Gomez while flames obstruct distant London skyscrapers.

At each location there were ample legal street parking spaces that sat empty while cars obstructed bike lanes.

It must seem a Kafkaesque nightmare to refugees to be criticised for relying on benefits while being obstructed by the law from providing for themselves.