Word: obstruction
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...into small bags, or preferably pipes, which break apart and become shrapnel in a blast. The 22-year-old who detonated a bomb outside the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv last June lifted his hands as he blew himself up, eyewitnesses reported, apparently so that his arms wouldn't obstruct shrapnel flying off the belt around his waist. One bombmaker on Israel's wanted list has started lacing bombs with rat poison, presumably to multiply the number of casualties, although the technique has yet to succeed, according to Israeli intelligence officials...
While members of the Harvard University Police Department were present, Dershowitz said he did not call them and insisted that they not obstruct the protest...
...Steven Lubet: This means the first conviction, conspiracy to obstruct justice, is completely reversed. There will be no new trial on that count, because the government only gets one chance to prove their case. On the civil rights conviction, Charles Schwarz could end up on trial again, if the prosecutors decide that...
...hope that Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) can extract important concessions on these points during budget deliberations. Recent Republican attempts to paint him as “obstructionist” are true only insofar as he has tried to obstruct ill-conceived tax rebates for the rich while fighting for America’s less fortunate...
...knew better. They were aware that Sister Joan, her vows notwithstanding, is a longtime feminist firebrand in the midst of a daring gambit. "If Scripture has nothing at all to say about the ordination of women," Chittister asked, "on what basis do we use Jesus as our right to obstruct it?" Her audience thought for a moment, clapped and finally broke into cheers...