The Moroccan government is still pursuing its policy of obstructiveness.

One day, no doubt, we shall look back and laugh at our obstructiveness in the face of progress.

They were driven to this by the obstructiveness that Stirling met with.

But between organisational inertia and outright obstructiveness, progress is far from certain.

She vowed that the full report would be published and in part blamed police obstructiveness for the delay.

The bank clerks, waiters, shopkeepers - I enjoy their obstructiveness.

But poaching remained a severe problem, exacerbated by official obstructiveness — and worse.

It is the typical ideologically motivated policy of obstructiveness that they so much like to use in election campaigns as well.

I don't know if the Chinese authorities wanted us to suffer global humiliation but the obstructiveness seemed wilful.

Logic suggests the Germans will prevail, but French obstructiveness could be costly.

Sharpe, who had been prepared by Blair for every kind of official obstructiveness, dared not believe his good fortune.

But it was hot air, pointless obstructiveness.

I am confident that M. Valassopoulos personal’s dedication to human rights will overcome all obstructiveness from whatever quarter.

However, these suspicions were not helped by conflicting advice from full time officers at some stages of the dispute, bringing a sense of obstructiveness.

From there he sallied forth about his many errands, meeting the usual obstructiveness whenever he asked for anything.

At the heart of the official obstructiveness is the Sacramento bureaucracies' unproven suspicion that gray waste water carries disease.

Hence the obstructiveness.

Or maybe obstructiveness lingered.

Detailed reasons for opposition to Williams' application have yet to be released but broadly the three grounds were mendacity, obstructiveness and lack of remorse.

There could be the clearing of the obstructiveness of inanimate objects, and the placating of the elements.

They would sit silent, more bodeful of the direct antagonism of things than of their insensate and stolid obstructiveness.

"After three years of negativity and obstructiveness (from the Government) what a delight to get a positive response," Mr McIntosh said.

Where unhelpfulness, officiousness, lack of sympathy and all-round obstructiveness are the norm, verbal aggression is an understandable and, in some instances, necessary response.

But attempts to suggest that the real motivation was either contempt for the Coalition or frustration at the obstructiveness of Liberal Democrat peers gained little traction.

F'lar entertained a half hope that D'ram might have seen through T'ron's obstructiveness, but the Oldtimer's next words disabused him.