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obstruction
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obstruction
Politics delay of business, esp in a legislature by means of procedural devices

obstruction [əb′strək·shən]
(medicine)
Occlusion or stenosis of hollow viscera, ducts, and vessels.
(navigation)
Anything that hinders or prevents movement, particularly anything that endangers or prevents passage of a vessel or aircraft; usually refers to an isolated danger to navigation, such as a submerged rock or pinnacle in the case of marine navigation, and a tower, tall building, mountain peak, and so forth, in the case of air navigation.


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The bureaucrats, the unions, the lifers, the lemons and the obstructors still call the shots.
Within conservative ranks of the GOP, Lewinsky holds the key to the proof that will show Clinton to be a perjurer and an obstructor of justice who ought to be removed from office even if the votes do not exist.
He was delegated the responsibility to delve into whether our First Citizen is a perjurer, encourager of perjury in others, obstructor of justice and witness tamperer.
 
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