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obstruction

/uhb-struhk-shuhn/US // əbˈstrʌk ʃən //UK // (əbˈstrʌkʃən) //

阻挠,阻塞,阻碍,障碍物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
    • : an act or instance of obstructing.
    • : the state of being obstructed.
    • : the delaying or preventing of business before a deliberative body, especially a legislative group, by parliamentary contrivances.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounobstacle, impediment

Examples

  • The danger for Republicans in total obstruction, however, is that today, Democrats have a much better understanding of how the GOP strategy works and what it produces.

  • In court papers, FBI agents say Gieswein — charged with assaulting police, civil disorder and obstruction of police and government — runs a private paramilitary training group and is affiliated with the Three Percenters.

  • What the NFL apparently got instead is bullying obstruction and unrepentant dodging.

  • Rush is charged with being drunk in public and obstruction of justice.

  • Of course, if a single senator is filibustering a crucial bill, the supermajority will simply wait out the obstruction and vote for eventual cloture.

  • The state has argued that this law is necessary to prevent obstruction and congestion going into the abortion clinics.

  • Democrats, their backs up, have altered Senate rules on filibusters in the face of Republican obstruction.

  • A year's worth of Republican obstruction have pushed Harry Reid to consider the "nuclear option" and end the judicial filibuster.

  • His nominations have faced an unprecedented level of obstruction, leading to widespread vacancies and judicial emergencies.

  • The simple—too simple—explanation for the French obstruction?

  • Larger amounts are very rarely found, and generally point to obstruction in the duodenum.

  • Putty-colored or "acholic" stools occur when bile is deficient, either from obstruction to outflow or from deficient secretion.

  • Thenceforth, it ebbed, though it raged madly for a while in the effort to sweep away the obstruction.

  • He calmly inserted the bodkin in the second cake; seemed to meet with some obstruction, and laid the ball down upon the counter.

  • Of course one or two will express their readiness to jump over so small an obstruction.