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as in impeding
to create difficulty for the work or activity of
this would go much faster if you would stop obstructing me with your constant interruptions
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as in blocking
to prevent passage through by filling with something
at the moment the city's only tunnel between downtown and the airport is obstructed by an overturned tanker truck
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Recent Examples of obstructing
Three Just Stop Oil protesters were found guilty of wilfully obstructing a highway in November last year after a trial at Stratford Magistrates’ Court in the UK earlier this week.
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George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Singapore Reuters — A Singapore court charged a property billionaire on Friday with obstructing justice and abetting offenses by a disgraced ex-transport minister jailed a day earlier in the city-state’s high-profile government graft case.
—Reuters, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
He was also accused of abetting the ex-minister in obstructing the course of justice.
—Low De Wei and Bernadette Toh / Bloomberg, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
However, unlike a lot of heavy side bangs that don't reach beyond the eyebrows, Rihanna's are rather long and, thus, obstructing her view, sometimes over both eyes.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 4 Oct. 2024
Singapore Reuters — A Singapore court sentenced a former minister to 12 months in prison on Thursday for obstructing justice and receiving more than $300,000 worth of gifts, in the first jailing of an ex-cabinet member in a city-state known for clean governance.
—Reuters, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
The three officers had originally pleaded not guilty to charges of obstructing justice and depriving Nichols of his civil rights.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Singapore Reuters — A Singapore court charged a property billionaire on Friday with obstructing justice and abetting offenses by a disgraced ex-transport minister jailed a day earlier in the city-state’s high-profile government graft case.
—Reuters, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
He was also accused of abetting the ex-minister in obstructing the course of justice.
—Low De Wei and Bernadette Toh / Bloomberg, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
However, unlike a lot of heavy side bangs that don't reach beyond the eyebrows, Rihanna's are rather long and, thus, obstructing her view, sometimes over both eyes.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 4 Oct. 2024
Singapore Reuters — A Singapore court sentenced a former minister to 12 months in prison on Thursday for obstructing justice and receiving more than $300,000 worth of gifts, in the first jailing of an ex-cabinet member in a city-state known for clean governance.
—Reuters, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
The three officers had originally pleaded not guilty to charges of obstructing justice and depriving Nichols of his civil rights.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Obstructing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obstructing. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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