Sentences with phrase «obstruct efforts»

While the criminal justice system will work and fight for justice on your behalf in most cases, there remain some wrinkles in established practices and law that may obstruct efforts to seek justice in cases involving sexual abuse crimes.

The proposed decision, she writes, «establish [es] a governance structure for the statewide programs that minimizes potential for any one IOU program administrator to obstruct these efforts.»

It doesn't attach to those who demonize, fail to provide data, obstruct efforts to replicate, hide files, invent bizarre new «statistical methodologies», and generally act like spoiled brats.

«We shouldn't give any thanks whatsoever to people who obstruct efforts to show that their particular theory was wrong,» said McIntyre, whose own work is derided as bunk by the tight - knit academics he monitors.

The newspaper's unnamed US intelligence sources said they were talking «because they feared the new administration would obstruct their efforts.»

There have been clean - ups and attempts at rectifying past mistakes — although the increasingly ideological and paranoid turn of the party - state may be obstructing these efforts.

Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph the home secretary insisted the Act was obstructing efforts to deport terrorist suspects and needed to be scrapped.

The governor's people will shrug and claim that it's the Legislature that's obstructing his efforts to prepare for the vote, because if a convention actually comes to pass it would tend to diminish the influence of the Assembly and Senate to guide constitutional change.

Mitch McConnell and Republicans are at it again — obstructing efforts to hold the financial industry accountable for narrow political gain.

The same week as this speech, Bush Administration Climate Officials are obstructing efforts to develop cooperation to save the planet.

Meanwhile, San Antonio - based AT&T complains that competitors» exclusive contracts in California, Texas and other states — agreements typically lasting five to 15 years — have obstructed its efforts to introduce video services to apartment tenants.

Not exact matches

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...

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.

Perhaps it is even more necessary, given current government efforts to obstruct the Church's outreach to the sick, the oppressed, and the outcast.

(4)(a), which is referenced in Rosenstein's order, would seemingly allow the special counsel to investigate efforts to obstruct the Russia - related investigation, since obstruction of justice is specifically enumerated as something a special counsel has authority to investigate.

All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice.

Mueller had also been caught up in the controversy surrounding the Church's response to the clerical sex abuse scandal after his department was accused earlier this year of obstructing Francis's efforts to stop internal cover - ups of abuse.

The lawmakers are «obstructing common - sense protections on the federal level,» according to the state Democratic Party, which is bankrolling the six - figure effort.

To me it's clear that Preet Baharara is going after Gov. Cuomo for obstructing the Moreland Commission's efforts to investigate the play for pay culture in Albany, NY.

Sharpton has fulminated about alleged efforts to obstruct blacks from voting in the past, most recently during the Democratic primary for retiring Congressman Charles Rangel «s seat, which saw Dominican - American State Senator Adriano Espaillat defeat African - American Assemblyman Keith Wright.

«It's regrettable that without fully assessing the facts, the Comptroller would try to obstruct the City's efforts to reach more New Yorkers with a living wage.»

However, his intimate personal ties to Percoco, his tight control over the state university board, his past efforts to obstruct State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's oversight of SUNY contracting and the hundreds of thousands of dollars his campaign has reaped from the parties charged have raised countless questions about his awareness of the alleged illegal dealings.

The Manganos and Venditto were also charged with obstructing justice for concocting fictitious stories with Singh in an effort to hide their dirty dealings.

To clinch the nomination before the convention, Mr. Trump would need to collect 1,237 delegates in all — an effort many Republican operatives hope to obstruct, believing that Mr. Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric could alienate key constituencies.

NEW YORK — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced that former New York Senator Shirley L. Huntley has pleaded guilty to Tampering with Physical Evidence, an E Felony, for falsifying evidence in an effort to obstruct the investigation into the theft of a grant she sponsored for a sham non-profit entity, the Parent Workshop.

In reality, succumbing to any of these two naïve approaches can actually obstruct your progress and not having a game plan that lets you meet all your caloric and macronutrient needs will make your gym efforts more or less futile.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

Dogs with stenotic nares and / or elongated soft palates must exert extra effort to breathe, which can cause these saccules to turn outwards and be sucked into the airway, further obstructing air flow.

When the dog has to increase the effort to breathe, he or she will start to pull additional tissue into the airway, obstructing airflow even more.

Over time, due to the increased respiratory effort, the pouches will turn inside out and stick out into the trachea, further obstructing the airways.

Simply, this is where the blame lies when someone is obstructed or prevented in their efforts to attain a goal.»

If this effort continues to fail, the moneyed interests that are obstructing it need to be called to account.

Despite the significant amount of «dark money» being funneled into efforts that seek to obstruct action on climate change or misinform the public, Brulle concludes that sufficient evidence exists that «a number of major conservative foundations have clearly played a crucial role in the development and maintenance of the [climate change counter-movement].»

Worse, efforts to verify their work have been contested and obstructed at every turn, leaving a very unsavory impression of the people involved.

The request, accompanied with a report [7Mb PDF] on the government's «systematic efforts» to obstruct access to researchers, was made jointly on Wednesday by the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria and Democracy Watch, a national non-profit group.

Stopping the automobile must be made without obstructing other traffic more than is necessary, and if a damaged automobile is blocking traffic, the obligation of the driver is to make every reasonable effort to move it or have it moved so as not to obstruct the regular flow of traffic.