Sentences with phrase «obstructionists who»

There have been obstructionists who stood in the way of technological advances and equal opportunity.

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Lutherans and Roman Catholics who have not wholeheartedly embraced the joint declaration are looked upon as obstructionists.

President Obama who represents the reasoned Pro Government forces in Washington, DC, has attempted to make reasonable and painful concessions to the «Anti Govs» who are being allowed to blackmail our President with this outrageous and obstructionist scorched earth policy in their war against Pro Gov. forces.

Those who want him to file suit risk marginalizing themselves as reflexive obstructionists.

Assistant Superintendent Mary Grace, who along with the superintendent helped oversee the obstructionist actions against parents, collected a total of $ 181,121 in 2014.

«Councils want to be regarded as improvement partners, not obstructionists to school improvement,» said Mr Watts, who is also the leader of Islington Council.

They are afraid that Qatar would be overly influenced by their neighbours the Saudis, who have been constantly labelled as obstructionist since the start of this process.

This business - as - usual approach has surprised some of America's foreign partners, along with some of Trump's allies, who had expected the new administration to match its rhetoric with an obstructionist approach to combating climate change.

Many managing partners have told me that they agonized for years over what to do with «the 800 pound gorilla,» who was a productive, economic contributor but a total non-team player and an obstructionist.

In a hopeful sign, the previously obstructionist legislator has now changed his tune and, after meeting with the CVP, authored an amendment of his own designed to make the divorce process simpler, especially for those who may be victims of violence.

Official Ottawa has become more obstructionist in responding to requests and this attitude has spread throughout government officialdom with a few notable exceptions; however the federal government retains the top specialization in constructing information roadblocks, «Federal institutions received lower grades than their provincial and municipal counterparts...» When requests are deemed acceptable, excessive amounts of money are being charged, who knew photocopying was such an expensive proposition?

The obstructionists, in Stewart's view, included county prosecutors, the trial judge, the assistant public defender who represented him at his first trial (which ended in a mistrial), the private defense lawyer who represented him between the two trials, jail officials he says unfairly denied him access to the law library and the state Attorney Grievance Commission.

And while casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam Ochsorn are on the party's more moderate wing, they have long stood behind the calculating, conservative Senate leader, McConnell, who even before the Tea Party's rise was known as an extreme obstructionist (paywall), dedicated to stomping out the bipartisan compromises that historically made the US government work.