(n.) One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body.
(a.) Of or pertaining to obstructionists.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once installed, the alliance will become an awkward, obstructionist presence, committed, in the words of the Northern League's Matteo Salvini, to "a different Europe, based on work and peoples and not in the one based on servitude to the euro and banks, ready to let us die from immigration and unemployment".
(2) There was a feeling that the mainstream was fighting back against the rightwing obstructionists who were trying to demonize Rabin and undermine the peace process.
(3) "[Its] obstructionist activities threaten the lives and property of those involved in our research, are very dangerous and cannot be forgiven."
(4) It was an obstructionist, anti-woman, anti-Latino, anti-Muslim, anti-middle class, anti-environment, and anti-Obama and anti-everything Republican party of the last eight years that made Donald Trump a reality.” Reid’s counterpart in the House of Representatives, minority leader Nancy Pelosi, took a similar approach in tying congressional Republicans to Trump.
(5) Not for the first time with the Tea Party, there is no plan B. Oppositionist by instinct and obstructionist by intent, their aim, from the debt ceiling to the budget , has always been to block and bluster.
(6) Blaming Democrats for the slow pace at which he has assembled his administration, Trump said: “The Democrats are extremely obstructionist.
(7) I didn’t do it for the attention … I hope everyone understands that it was a genuinely raw moment.” Though he remarked on Rose’s “passion” on Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning, Rivera, 71, ultimately deemed the interruption “annoying” and “obstructionist”.
(8) He again ridiculed the notion in a speech earlier on Thursday, claiming he was merely filling a vacuum left by an obstructionist Congress.
(9) Labor senator Joe Ludwig has urged Australia’s freedom of information watchdog to investigate the Immigration Department’s handling of an information request, and warned of an “increasingly obstructionist” culture of secrecy in federal government departments.
(10) This prompted an attack on Wednesday from trade minister Andrew Robb on conservationists he said were using “a skink” for “a patsy” in obstructionist legal challenges that were undermining trade talks with India.
(11) "By staking out a position that would accommodate Jews who wish to live in a future Palestinian state, Netanyahu reinforces his image as a pragmatist on the Israeli spectrum, in contrast to the obstructionist right and Bennett in particular.
(12) The Hill points out that in the same survey, 57% of voters blame obstructionist policies by the Republicans in Congress for the current troubles and that percentage includes a lot of swing voters.
(13) The Republicans, wary of being accused of being obstructionist, responded cautiously but their opposition has since hardened.
(14) He did apologise, however, for an ill-judged remark about Alzheimer's sufferers, but created uproar again last month when he likened the opposition to the Nazis because of their obstructionist tactics in parliament.
(15) If Perry can project a relationship with Obama of fruitful contrariness – I don't like you, but I'll deal with you if I have to – he will have hit on an enviable political sweet spot where he can be neither faulted by the hard right for being too much in the president's pocket nor written off as an obstructionist scold with a legislative resumé written largely in the language of "No".
(16) Just in case there was not enough to give parliament something to fight over now, the only surprise was a decision to leave the EU charter of fundamental rights behind , thereby gifting Labour the thread it needed to pull on without looking obstructionist.
(17) The press conference shows Obama's plan for re-election beginning to crystalise as he portrays himself as the champion of job creation and the Republicans as obstructionist champions of the rich.
(18) I think people have a right to ask themselves,” Rubio said, “What’s the point in having Republicans if they’re not going to do what they said when they ran for office?” That seemed to be a sentiment shared by the president, who on Saturday morning tweeted , indefatigably and apparently oblivious to the previous night’s reminder of Senate rules: “The Republican senators must step up to the plate and, after 7 years, vote to Repeal and Replace … “Obamacare is dead and the Democrats are obstructionists, no ideas or votes, only obstruction.
(19) In the angry aftermath of the conference, senior European diplomats accused China of "systematically wrecking the accord" with leaks and obstructionist tactics.
(20) This is not well thought through’, and asking the government to go back to the drawing board.” Schools providing £43.5m of extra support to children due to cuts – poll Read more School leaders did not have to be “obstructionist”, he said, but should be sufficiently confident to stand up to government.
Progress
Definition:
(n.) A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
(n.) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.
(n.) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
(n.) In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.
(n.) In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.
(n.) Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.
(n.) A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
(v. i.) To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.
(v. i.) To make improvement; to advance.
(v. t.) To make progress in; to pass through.
Example Sentences:
(1) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(2) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
(3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(4) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(5) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(6) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
(7) (ii) A progressive disappearance of the immunoreactive hypendymal cells.
(8) DNA in situ is progressively denatured when the cells or nuclei are treated with increasing concentration of acridine orange (AO).
(9) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(10) Periodontal disease activity is defined clinically by progressive loss of probing attachment and radiographically by progressive loss of alveolar bone.
(11) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
(12) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(13) The risk of recurrence and progression in 170 patients presenting with pTa urothelial tumours of the bladder has been estimated so that follow-up can be rationalised.
(14) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(15) Progressive sporadic myopathy in association with Down's syndrome has not been reported previously.
(16) After local injection of sodium iodoacetate osteoarthritic reactions will progress within 2-4 months.
(17) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
(18) These observations indicate that lipoprotein Lp(a) concentrations can be altered pharmacologically and that the progression of cardiovascular disease may be altered through changes in lipoprotein (a) levels.
(19) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
(20) Serial measurements demonstrated a good correlation between enolase and NSE serum levels and the progression of the disease.