What's the difference between enslaved and obstructed?

Enslaved


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Enslave

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They fit with his continuation of the regime’s systemic human rights abuses, its pitiless prison labour camp system including enslavement, forced abortions and systemic rape, its abductions and foreign hostage-taking, and its aggressive defiance of its neighbours.
  • (2) "The feudals have enslaved the people for generations," he says.
  • (3) Thoreau's recognitions endeared him to the revolutionaries of the 1960s: he saw the violence behind the established order, the enslaving nature of private property, and - a trend even stronger now than 40 years ago - the media's substitution of "the news" for private reality.
  • (4) The first time you use these drugs they damage you, and if you become enslaved to drugs, your life will be destroyed,” he said.
  • (5) Did the rape, enslavement and summary execution of thousands of people and the murder of hostages not give it away?
  • (6) An emotional Obama ran through a litany of Isis human-rights abuses, from rape to enslavement, calling them “cowardly acts of violence.” In a vague reference to Americans held captive by Isis or near its path in Iraq, Obama said the US would “do everything we can to protect our people,” a formulation that has preceded US military action in the past.
  • (7) You list decapitations, mutilations, rapes, defenestrations and sex enslavements.
  • (8) "It is not unusual for people who have been 'rescued' to psychologically identify with their enslavers."
  • (9) In the Gulf, the International Trade Union Confederation estimates that 2.4 million domestic workers are enslaved (pdf).
  • (10) We see it in the people who have forgotten their encounter with the Lord ... in those who depend completely on their here and now, on their passions, whims and manias, in those who build walls around themselves and become enslaved to the idols that they have built with their own hands.” 7) Being rivals or boastful.
  • (11) Poland, however, was "enslaved" by Moscow and he is unabashed about his purpose, lecturing British and Nato military officers about Poland's wartime past, about its home army, the biggest non-communist guerrilla movement in Europe fighting the Nazis.
  • (12) There were incredible acts of bravery that helped ensure that this and other nations were not enslaved.
  • (13) In 2014, a UN report found that the North Korean terror machine was without contemporary parallel, with enslavement, forced labour, torture, rape, compulsory abortions, collective punishment and executions.
  • (14) It calculated that more than 4% of North Korea’s population is enslaved, with Uzbekistan and Qatar the other countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery per capita.
  • (15) If power corrupts, powerful inequality indebts and ultimately enslaves.
  • (16) When one woman tapped her on the shoulder and requested the singer stop, Madonna is reported to have remarked: "It's for business … enslaver!"
  • (17) This leaves the men and women effectively working for pennies, while simultaneously ensuring they remain reliant on the people enslaving them.
  • (18) As Blair of all people understood, political parties die when they become enslaved to a dogma.
  • (19) It’s no mystery where these assumptions came from: if you enslave people, break up their families, humiliate, brutalize and denigrate them and spend far more on their incarceration than their education, then the mere prospect of them reaching their full human potential will strike fear in you.
  • (20) Abraham Lincoln gave speeches about the civil war in which he said, in essence, "We've brought this on ourselves by enslaving Americans."

Obstructed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Obstruct

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
  • (2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
  • (3) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
  • (4) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
  • (5) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
  • (6) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
  • (7) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
  • (8) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
  • (9) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.
  • (10) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
  • (11) The occurrence of episodes of desaturation during sleep in patients suffering from chronic airflow obstruction is well known.
  • (12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (13) Tubal obstruction could be demonstrated in only one of these patients.
  • (14) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
  • (15) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
  • (16) Regression of the tumor occurred during an episode of mechanical small bowel obstruction.
  • (17) Comparison with 99Tc-pyrophosphate uptake in infarcted dog heart, induced by selective obstruction of a coronary artery, suggest that the 111In-labelled F(ab')2 localizes specifically in infarcted myocardium only.
  • (18) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
  • (19) We recently treated a patient in whom HPVG was caused by intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
  • (20) In patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, although either sympathomimetic or anticholinergic therapy provides bronchodilatation, no further benefit could be demonstrated from combination therapy.