obstruct
Example Sentences
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Visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday urged Kurdish-led forces to integrate into Syria's army and not obstruct the country's stability, as the deadline for implementing a deal between Damascus and the Kurds approaches.
From Barron's
On Thursday Dugan was found guilty of obstructing law enforcement by a jury of her peers in Milwaukee.
But they convicted her on the felony charge of obstructing federal agents who were trying to make an immigration arrest.
Behind the scenes, Marocco and his lieutenants repeatedly obstructed USAID’s Africa, humanitarian aid and global health bureaus from restarting programs critical for responding to disease outbreaks, according to interviews and memos obtained by ProPublica.
From Salon
The report found no evidence of a conspiracy to sabotage the prosecution, either through "a co-ordinated high-level effort", "deliberate efforts to obstruct the prosecution" or to "circumvent constitutional safeguards".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
