They're located in the lower level, with varying degrees of obstructiveness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Her obstructiveness is deliberate: as pointed out above, she does NOT WANT to seat either delegation YET. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"This obstructiveness of the department of defence is merely indicative of the concerning trend within the department of defence to flaunt occupational health and safety legislation requirements." ❋ Unknown (2007)
Lechulatebe owed their lives to his clemency; and the latter might have paid dearly for his obstructiveness. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Sharpe, who had been prepared by Blair for every kind of official obstructiveness, dared not believe his good fortune. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1992)
Eden had been so enraged by Churchill's procrastination and obstructiveness that he had sometimes come to hate the man he most admired. ❋ Cannadine, David (1987)
Lord CRAWFORD, who has probably forgotten more about Art than some of his critics ever knew, concealed his real sympathy for the motion under a mask of official obstructiveness, but was compelled eventually to give it a strictly provisional acceptance. ❋ Various (N/A)
Mellersh had had to be mentioned, because of his obstructiveness, but she had carefully kept him from overflowing outside the limits of necessity. ❋ Unknown (1922)
He had sallied forth into that tropical jungle of festooned obstructiveness, of intertwisted irresponsibilities, of crouching prejudices, of abuses grown stiff and rigid with antiquity, which for so many years to come was destined to lure reforming ministers to their doom. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Only the obstructiveness of our Government prevented the still more easy pacification of the European provinces of Turkey in 1876, and caused the present war with all its harm to British trade and all its risks to "British interests."' ❋ Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1907)
Her spirit felt crushed and broken by the obstructiveness of all about her. ❋ Maud Diver (1906)
The immorality of many of their maxims, their too frequent connivance at political wrong for the sake of power, their inflexible malice against opponents, and the cupidity and obstructiveness of the years of their decrepitude, have blinded us to the many meritorious pages of the Jesuit chronicle. ❋ Morley, John, 1838-1923 (1905)
The church knows this well enough, with its everlasting inner struggle of the acute religion of the few against the chronic religion of the many, indurated into an obstructiveness worse than that which irreligion opposes to the movings of the Spirit. ❋ Unknown (1902)
War, and Lord Newton's alleged obstructiveness in regard to the treatment and exchange of prisoners has been discussed in the Lords. ❋ Unknown (1900)
The only antidote to the recklessness or obstructiveness of extreme parties lay in dissolution; but to dissolve a parliament just elected, as Victor Emmanuel had once been forced to do already, would be a fatal expedient if repeated often. ❋ Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn (1898)
One side seemed to think that similar imports would be forthcoming to-day but for the obstructiveness of the British Government, while the other was confident that Russia had nothing to export save propaganda. ❋ Various (1898)
They would sit silent, more bodeful of the direct antagonism of things than of their insensate and stolid obstructiveness. ❋ Unknown (1896)
