Word: obstructionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Now America is planning to step in and referee the matter. A loan of a billion and a half dollars to help the struggling mark get on sol'd land is being contemplated. But France pooh-poohs our offers of assistance; she knows that Germany doesn't need it. Only...
Intent as Cromwell, on governing if possible by constitutional form, he seems as impatient of stupid obstruction and as conscious of his unassailable position at the head of a government that "has its roots deep in the conscience of the people". Like Oliver too, he is a great believer in...
Believing that the Harvard Square subway station is "an illegal obstruction to the highway, a cause of accidents, and a menace to both pedestrians and automobilists." Mayor Quinn, H. L. Mason, president of the Charles River Trust Co., City Engineer M. L. Hastings, and a number of other prominent citizens...
Although it is challenged as a menace to pedestrians and automobilists, it provides a safety zone on which pedestrians can stand in order to board surface cars. If it were removed and a safety zone marked out, the automobilist would still be forced to go around the area as they...
It is easy to think with the crowd; and the thoughts of men, like electricity, choose the easiest way. Yet all the more, when men force themselves to think alone, they are like electricity which, meeting an obstruction, overleaps it with a speed that may be heard ten thousand miles...