Sentences with phrase «as obstructing»

At the most recent UN Climate Summit in Warsaw, Australia was largely viewed as obstructing progress and belittling the process.

And there's a price to pay for being perceived as obstructing everything - especially when «but it will provide jobs» gets thrown into the mix.

And liberty, as a goal and cause in itself, becomes a terrible taskmaster, sending people to their death, and exacting horrific crimes on people and nations which are viewed as obstructing our liberty.

Stunting is a known risk factor for obstetric complications such as obstructed labor and the need for skilled intervention during delivery, leading to injury or death for mothers and their newborns.

Health and safety risks included: serious fire hazards such as obstructed exits; unsafe and unhygienic premises; and staff and volunteers who had not been properly checked or cleared to work with children.

Not exact matches

'' [Trump] has obstructed the most basic of American principles of what we stand for as a country in terms of immigration: a nation of immigrants.

As part of his investigation, Mueller is focusing on whether Trump obstructed justice when he removed his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and fired FBI Director James Comey, according to two U.S. officials.

Mueller is also examining whether Trump sought to obstruct justice when he fired James Comey as FBI director in May.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice is said to be close to completion, but he may set it aside while he finishes other key parts of his probe, such as possible collusion and the hacking of Democrats, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Democrats could be expected to express their outrage by offering proposals to reinstate Mueller and to remove Trump as president, on grounds that he had obstructed justice.

That inquiry makes up one thread of Mueller's investigation into whether Trump sought to obstruct justice when he fired James Comey as FBI director last May.

The probe, broadly, has two main threads related to Trump: whether members of his campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the race in his favor, and whether he sought to obstruct justice when he fired James Comey as the FBI director last May.

Moyo told the civil service that the army was moving to protect them against the purge, and told the judiciary that the aim was to «ensure that as an independent arm of the state you are able to exercise your independent authority without fear of being obstructed as has been the case with this group of individuals.»

I wasn't sitting in a posh courtside seat at Madison Square Garden, with Anthony's derriere obstructing my view — though I may as well have been.

As of late, he has come under fire for his firing of FBI director James Comey, his alleged sharing of guarded intelligence about ISIS with the Russian foreign minister, and allegations that Trump obstructed justice by asking Comey not to look into his former National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who Trump has since fired for misrepresenting talks he had with Russian ambassador Sergei Kisylak.

But the Mueller indictment echoes subsequent findings that masses of false or misleading social media activity was engineered by Russia's Internet Research Agency, as part of a plan to «defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit» beginning as early as 2014.

As a regulatory authority, FINMA could easily promote or obstruct the growth of businesses working with emerging financial technology, like blockchain - based distributed ledgers.

«I think it will have an important deterrent impact, as well as inform the Congress if circumstances arise in which the president uses the pardon power for an illicit purpose, to protect himself, to obstruct justice,» said Schiff (D - Burbank) in an interview.

A few such as STX missed and dropped so much that it obstructed a clear view that yes, there were exceptions but overall this earnings season was one of the best so far.

Here's a key bit of context showing why Giuliani's admission could be important: Remember that Trump himself reportedly made this same demand of Comey — and that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III appears to be examining that demand as part of his effort to determine whether Trump obstructed justice.

President Vladimir Putin is contemplating an effort to repair relations with the west as sanctions and growing international conflict obstruct...

The lead designer on the project, Markus McKenna, worked with Steelcase to construct what McKenna refers to as a «cocoon - like space»; a three sided set of privacy screens that work together to obstruct peripheral vision and help block out the sound and vision of people traffic around it.

A dog 35 pounds or more must be properly restrained with a leash, harness or similar device and situated in such a location so as to not obstruct access to the aisle or exit.

In an open letter to Trump on Friday, a group of Democrats said an effort to use the Nunes memo as a pretext to dismiss Rosenstein or Mueller — or both — would be viewed as an attempt to obstruct justice in the Russia probe.

Mueller is investigating whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election, as well as whether the president obstructed justice.

Finally, as a last resort, it would picket, boycott, obstruct and paralyze unjust political and economic structures.

One after another the state constitutions had declared that, as North Carolina's put it, «all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences» (V: 71) The state constitutions indicated that the right of «free exercise» was meant to be absolute, at least to the point of not «disturb [ing] the public peace or obstruct [ing] others in their religious worship» (Massachusetts, 1780, V: 77) Equally straightforward was the opposition to «an establishment of religion.»

Yet in knowing God I am deeply aware that my relation to Him has been damaged, that disorder has resulted in my mind, and that it is I who obstruct knowledge of God by getting in between Him and myself, as it were.

A variant of this, no longer as popular as it was, but still widely adopted, is the apologetic» the desire by some Muslims, and also some non-Muslims, to present Islam in terms likely to win the approval of the non-Muslim and, more particularly, the Western reader and to omit or at least gloss over those aspects that would obstruct this aim.

A chief difference was that the former, unlike the latter, were led by chief executives of exceptionally sturdy ego who, in their campaigns to consolidate enough power to make a radical break with their collegiate past, used that power as well to sever any capacity of the church to obstruct their personal sovereignty.

There is, for this reason, a legitimate connection between the nation and socialism which supports rather than obstructs the international character of socialism as a force for world unity and peace.

While I - It can be defined as the enlarging and thickening of distance, it can also be defined as the objectification of the I - Thou relation which sometimes serves as the way back to it and sometimes obstructs the return.

If «art» in this sense seems to take a disproportionate amount of time in sermon preparation, it can be safely assumed that this time will diminish as the process of unlearning clears away artificialities that obstruct communication.

Distorted notions of what the ministry is and of what ministers are like as persons can obstruct effective counseling.

While it is walking the line of violating the separation of church / state, I think it's something that they deserve as long as they are not forced to take part in the religions or have their careers obstructed for not taking part.

How long will the Christians and people of the United States have to contemplate the incongruity of its government... as it supports with over a million dollars a day another government that represses, kills bishops, religious workers, children, men and women, violates human rights, closes itself to dialogue and obstructs the pastoral task of the churches?

Your views are the right one's as an example of humanity of mankind towards his fellow men... what is obstructing that is what is called «Obsessions»..

Nevertheless, these destructive forces may on occasion be acting in response to divine directives.18 They express the wrath of God, insofar as God judges existing orders and structures as worthy of destruction.19 Existing structures may be obstructing the realization of new relevant values, and to that extent be evil, deserving to be destroyed.

But it does mean that the tendency which is God, no matter how obstructed, will always operate as long as there is any universe at all.

Doing anything to obstruct justice is just as bad if not worse.

They accuse him of obstructing social betterment, just as other regressive types once opposed fluoridation for the control of tooth decay.

Unfortunately, things are rarely that simple in today's foodservice industry where growth aspirations serve as clouds that can obstruct an organization's view of their customers.

It's perfectly fine if this is the end: A-Rod is one of the greatest players in baseball history, a lightning rod in the industry well before PEDs ever came up, and he did his time when he was caught with them, anyway — well, when MLB obstructed a federal investigation to make sure he was caught with them so Bud Selig could use his last year as commissioner as a victory lap, but who remembers such unimportant details?

Fox's job is on the line and Pace does not strike me as the guy who causes controversy and obstructs his coach.

Gross, as all A's hitters are instructed to do when Henderson is running, assumed the bunt position to obstruct the catcher.

It becomes pretty obvious when screaming the N - word, killing someone, obstructing justice, multiple rape charges, domestic abuse, dog fighting, locker room brawls, reality show drama don't qualify as distractions in the name of winning but this somehow does.

He's done his penance, though, after Bud Selig made it his mission to suspend him — going so far as illegally obtaining evidence and obstructing a federal investigation to do so — and the Yankees tried ever so hard to keep Rodriguez from money he was contractually obligated to receive after the suspension.

With Leeds players obstructing the keepers line of sight at first and then rushing out to the edge of the box, the former Hammers keeper just couldn't keep track of what was happening as Pablo Hernandez curled the ball into the net.

Minimize the use of infant seats, carriers or swings when putting the child to sleep as the posture might obstruct his airway.

This is especially important for babies younger than 4 months of age, as partially - upright positions might cause their airway to become obstructed.