What's the difference between obstructing and obstructionism?
Obstructing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) 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.
Obstructionism
Definition:
(n.) The act or the policy of obstructing progress.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hillary Clinton has a message for Republicans bemoaning the rise of Donald Trump: “You reap what you sow.” In a speech on Monday, the former secretary of state blamed Republicans’ obstructionism, which she said fomented Trump’s incendiary campaign.
(2) Broadly defined, this sort of behaviour involves procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, obstructionism, self-pity and a tendency to create chaotic situations.
(3) You do, the American people, the voters.” On Saturday, he added: “They’ve said 'no' to raising the minimum wage, 'no' to equal pay for equal work and 'no' to restoring the unemployment insurance they let expire for more than two million Americans looking for a new job.” Democrats, worried about Republicans' focus on the perceived unpopularity of the president's healthcare reform, the Affordable Care Act – under which signups for healthcare coverage this week passed 8 million , according to the White House – are seeking to use GOP obstructionism to their benefit in the run-up to this year's midterm elections in November.
(4) Few believe that Copenhagen can any longer produce a fully polished treaty; real progress towards one could only begin with the arrival of President Obama in the White House and the reversal of years of US obstructionism.
(5) When it so often feels that women are an afterthought in policymaking, to suggest children should come first might appear to be wilful obstructionism (or just daft).
(6) Nick Clegg defended his right to appoint Liberal Democrat donors to the Lords as long as the Lords remains unelected because of the political obstructionism from the other parties.
(7) Had the Republican legislation succeeded, therefore, it would have been a largely symbolic gesture aimed at showing voters that the divided GOP could take urgent action to solve a crisis, defying the party’s growing reputation for division and obstructionism.
(8) He will warn that, in the months left before the election, he will seek to work with Congress, but if Republicans engage in "obstructionism", as the White House claims they did throughout last year, he will confront them and, if necessary, bypass them.
(9) "If we can agree that delays, stalemates and obstructionism have been a recurrent theme of this electoral process, it does seem possible that this pattern extends to the political negotiations that will accompany the creation of a new government, whoever the winning candidate will be," he said.
(10) On the other hand, the White House is calculating that were the Republicans to sustain their obstructionism and refuse even to look at as non-partisan a figure as Merrick Garland, it would expose them to the accusation that they have run roughshod over the US constitution in the cause of party politics.
(11) Barack Obama on Saturday contrasted Republican obstructionism in Congress with his use of executive actions.
(12) There is, I have seen, a deep love in many quarters for Obama which I have never witnessed for another American president in the years I have lived on and off in this country, and the love is rooted in the almost surreal levels of grace Obama and his family have shown in the last eight years: in the face of the Tea Party’s antics, the obstructionism of Republican congressmen, willing to debase themselves and the principles of democracy in order to try to bring him down, the “birther” insults, the cries of “you lie” during a speech in Congress.
(13) The obstructione malignant disease of hepatic ducts bifurcation with persistent jaundice have an unfavourable prognosis.
(14) From the rest of the proceedings it became clear that Mladic's approach will be that of defiance and obstructionism.
(15) Obstructionism had worked for them over the last two years and more was expected.
(16) Led by the passionate Charles Parnell , and then by the stolid John Redmond , the Irish Parliamentary party’s obstructionism and filibusters won many reforms for Ireland.
(17) The speaker of the House, John Boehner, shared the principles among fellow Republican members of Congress at a retreat in Cambridge, Maryland on Thursday, as part of an effort to rehabilitate the party's reputation for obstructionism.
(18) Blanket obstructionism has proven to be a tall order – even for progressive politicians from safely Democratic states.
(19) But he warned that if Republicans engaged in "obstructionism" , as the White House claims they did throughout last year, he would confront them and, if necessary, bypass them.
(20) The week after that agreement was announced, we had a theatrical display of political symbolism at the G20 summit in Australia as world leaders lined up to give Australian prime minister Tony Abbott’s government a slap on the wrist for its anti-science obstructionism.