How To Use Obstructionism In A Sentence
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Bozo The Neoclown says: timmeh defines “obstructionism” as telling the repukeliscums “no” while they try to sit activist judges in appellate courts
Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 12, 2010
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Yet more often than not, efforts to knit together national economies fall victim to obstructionism.
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Unfortunately, the Republicans are going down in flames: lies, obstructionism, immorality, class warfare-bating, and on and on.
CNN Poll: Dems becoming less popular but no gains for GOP
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Such obstructionism is a major contributor to delay and the high cost of litigation.
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They forced the president to back-pedal and promise to crack down on corporate pillagers, pump more funds into housing, education and job programs, and to publicly soften his environmental obstructionism.
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‘The Senate is vowing obstructionism and the Government appears to have put privatisation on the backburner,’ the editorial warned.
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But do the Party want to face this reshaped electorate with our reconfigured media with no other message but obstructionism?
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I think most folks ascribe this narrative to foreign policy tendencies, but I think it gets reinforced by obstructionism. toby says:
Matthew Yglesias » The Genius of Obstructionism
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To pass any bill over rightwing obstructionism they had to water it down to the level that it is now getting attacked from the right that was NEVER going to support anything Obama did AND the left for not providing REAL reform.
Think Progress » Kerry: ‘The only thing Republicans say yes to are Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, tea partiers, and Fox News.’
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Obstructionism is generally most evident at the stage of implementing a law.
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But that's exactly what's goin' to happen if you continue this kind of obstructionism.
STONE CITY
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It would be nice if State governments minimise also the obstructionism of their procedures.
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Debate is healthy but is not to be confused with obfuscation, obstructionism or opposition for its own sake - that's not honest debate or even honest dissent.
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Certainly, there needs to be a public awareness campaign, but a well-funded and supported initiative that leads all of the people out of the dark ages of obstructionism and into welcoming enlightenment.
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Focusing on the GCC has given the impression that climate change obstructionism is confined to a handful of goggle-eyed fossil fuel fundamentalists machinating on the margins of respectable corporate society.
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Octavian sought the help of the Senate, only to be met with obstructionism and outright treachery.
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This would give the government a much-needed handle on economic policy-making, which has been hamstrung by opposition obstructionism.
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The Senate's decision to have another Senate inquiry was enough for the Prime Minister to take up his usual cry about Senate obstructionism.
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This forced him to back-pedal and promise to crack down on corporate pillagers, to publicly soften his environmental obstructionism, and to promise to pump more funds into housing, education and job programs.
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More often than not, efforts to knit national economies into one supranational whole fall victim to obstructionism.
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That would give the government a much-needed handle on economic policy-making, which has been hamstrung by opposition obstructionism.
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For liberals, such obstructionism proved yet again that the Catholic tradition could never truly be reconciled with secular democracy.
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To the general astonishment the Duke d' Orléans, head of the junior branch of the royal family and heir to a long tradition of obstructionism, suddenly rose and protested that this was not legal.
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He said results showed rejection of Democratic ‘obstructionism’ in the senate.
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We've often asked whether the party are paying a political price for their obstructionism, or for the outrageous and hateful face they so often present to the voters.
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Apparently, the lessons of Freddie's ongoing troubles haven't sunk in, and Fannie and Freddie have relapsed into their tired old methods of obstructionism.
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On presidential appointments - first, judges and now ambassador to the United Nations - they resort to the classic weapon of southern obstructionism: the filibuster.
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Bureaucrats often work amazingly few hours and are notorious for their obstructionism and ability to dance constantly along the fine line between outright corruption and the parameters of their official duty.
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Obstructionism from the military, the right, and the courts prevented a full accounting or retribution against the perpetrators.
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This is the very definition of obstructionism: To delay a foregone conclusion for the sake of a petty protest.
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This forced the president to back-pedal and promise to crack down on corporate pillagers, to publicly soften his environmental obstructionism, and to promise to pump more funds into housing, education and job programs.
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Because with their maddening obstructionism and the accurate framing of their party as the purveyors of "No!" they are hereupon revealed in their priggish guise to be retrograde and obsolete, trying desperately to incite culture war in a culture that no longer requires their participation and painting the Obama administration's efforts at economic stabilization (along with every other Democratic policy proposal) as an example of diabolical sorcery.
Steven Weber: The Pilgrim's Regress
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Meanwhile, he is working out a modus vivendi with the Supreme Leader, who, despite his conservative instincts, realizes that the clerics' obstructionism could eventually backfire.
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This forced him to back-pedal and promise to crack down on corporate pillagers, to publicly soften his environmental obstructionism, and to promise to pump more funds into housing, education and job programs.
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I do think that there are gradations in the extent to which Senate obstructionism is blameworthy.
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The party surely dread the kind of obstructionism they themselves practiced during the last Congress.
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Brown and the other stooges are using the usual fearmonger and lies to promote obstructionism.
Senate committee approves Wall Street reform bill
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I refer to the people who have caused the governmental process to grind to a halt over the past five years by their childish obstructionism in the legislature.
