Word: obstructively
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...difficulty of keeping them all on board without watering down the legislation, infuriating the party's base and ultimately disgusting the electorate through extended exposure to the sausagemaking process. The only plausible road to financial reform is for it to become so popular that even Republicans are afraid to obstruct...
...critical step toward mustering the Arab support Washington needed to pressure Iran. In his Cairo speech, Obama had made clear that America's commitment to Israel's security is absolute, but settlements do nothing to enhance Israel's security, and arguably impede it as long as they obstruct the path to peace with the Palestinians...
...already been convicted of abuse. "There was a very serious worry about injustices being done to [brothers] who were dead or to living people who were accused and who maintained their innocence," says Brother Edmund Garvey, a spokesman for the order. "But there was no intention to obstruct or delay [the commission]." (See the top 10 religion stories...
...Organizers were instructed not to obstruct the entrances and the protest remained peaceful throughout...
...that shelters the Modern Wing starts with a broad flat canopy of aluminum blades. Those are angled to obstruct southern light while admitting gentler northern light, then deliver it to the third-floor galleries through translucent fabric screens. From outside, it also tops off the building's silhouette with a final flourish: a thin wafer of aluminum afloat on slender steel trusses. Piano likes to call it the "flying carpet...