John le Carre

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

English Writer

J. Edgar Hoover

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

American Public Servant

Kevin Olusola

With an arena, it sounds so big and full sometimes it can obstruct the way we sing because we're hearing so much slapback and things like that.

American Musician

Steven Weber

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

American Actor

Margaret Cavendish

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Sophia Loren

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Italian Actress

James Mill

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

English Historian

Kayleigh McEnany

While Democrats spent the year of 2019 obstructing, President Trump spent the year achieving.

Pete Buttigieg

We've never been a party to obstruct for obstruction sake.

American Politician

Mason Cooley

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

American Writer

Often used when something physically stops movement or visibility.

Physical Barriers

Can describe non-physical barriers to progress or success.

Metaphorical Use

Implies a deliberate action to block something.

Active Obstruction

Common in legal and official settings, like interrupting justice or operations.

Legal Contexts

Suggests that somebody is trying to prevent an action on purpose.

Intentional Hindrance

Focuses on visual interference, often temporary or situational.

Visual Impediments

Used for discussing blockages along paths, routes, or passages.

Navigational Context

Specifies physical obstructions within the body impacting health.

Medical Significance

Medical or technical discussions use 'obstruct' in a precise context.

Technical Term

 has suggested that we can actually direct their evolution through simple disease-control methods. By mosquito-proofing houses, establishing clean water systems, or staying home when we get a cold, we can obstruct the transmission strategies of harmful germs while creating a greater dependence on host mobility.

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 that have obstructed the mind in moving forward and of course what is radical is to confront them. And I think our architecture is a confrontation with our own senses. Therefore I believe it should not be cool. There is a lot of appreciation for the kind of cool architecture.

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 But in the Suez Canal, it was a global crisis. This vessel wasn’t just blocking other ships— It was obstructing the flow of international trade through one of the world’s most important waterways. The site of the Suez Canal has been of interest to rulers of this region

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 to pass through freely. But in Alzheimer's disease, the protein collapses into twisted strands or tangles, making the tubes disintegrate, obstructing nutrients from reaching the nerve cell and leading to cell death. The destructive pairing of plaques and tangles

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 It shouldn't obstruct it, which of course it often does. So in place of curiosity, what we have is a culture of compliance. Our children and teachers are encouraged to follow routine algorithms rather than to excite that power of imagination and curiosity.

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 She got pregnant, ran to the bush to have the baby, but you know, her body was very immature, and she ended up having obstructed labor. The baby died, and she ended up with a fistula. So that meant she was incontinent; she couldn't control her wastes.

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 it causes a stroke. Dangerously clogged blood vessels can be widened by a procedure called an angioplasty. There, doctors thread a wire through the vessel to the obstructed site, and then place a deflated balloon catheter over the wire.

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 A pileup in the lungs can produce fevers and difficulty breathing. A clog near the eye can cause vision problems and retinal detachment. And if the obstructed vessels supply the brain the patient could even suffer a stroke.

How this disease changes...

 Asthma can lead to inflamed airways which obstruct oxygen. And pneumonia, often triggered by bacterial or viral infections, attacks the alveoli themselves. Invading pathogens kill lung cells,

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 eat here he is still looking at something and I'm just going to now move a little bit afraid so that we don't see we don't get obstructed by the other vehicle who are also looking for a