Example sentences for: obstruction

How can you use “obstruction” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Henry Hyde's frustrated riposte from the floor of the Senate: "You're saying, I guess, that perjury's okay if it's about sex, that obstruction is okay.

  • Partial-birth abortion is "surely not" a "very important" issue, and Congress should not have let the Republican "politics of obstruction" defeat President Clinton's health care proposal in 1994, given the "broad bipartisan and public consensus that it was desperately needed."

  • Arlen Specter's remark yesterday on CNN that with the latest flap, the White House "may have crossed the line of obstruction of justice" is quoted by USAT and the WP . The Post points out that such tapes were ostensibly covered by congressional committee subpoenas going back to last January, while the WSJ adds that Senate investigators had previously been told that no such tapes existed.

  • The House impeached President Clinton . Article 1 (perjury before the grand jury) passed 228-206, Article 3 (obstruction of justice) passed 221-212, Article 2 (perjury in the Paula Jones deposition) failed 229-205, and Article 4 (abuse of power) failed 285-148.

  • But in 1993, pro-choicers won passage of a federal law protecting clinics from obstruction, on the reasoning that they're legal medical facilities.


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