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obstructiveness





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The shutdown and eventual nationalisation of Orano's operations have been surrounded by mutual recrimination, with the government and the company accusing each other of obstructiveness.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2025

Never has a collegiate women’s player possessed the combination of Griner’s size, mobility, soft shooting touch, effortless dunking and elegant obstructiveness, which allows her to block shots while hardly ever drifting into foul trouble.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2012

They represented the conservatism which sought to distinguish itself from mere obstructiveness.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

We need hardly speak in the language of detestation of this species of obstructiveness, which prevents hundreds of valuable schemes of social melioration from being entered into.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

Two valuable days, however, had been lost by their obstructiveness.

From By Canoe and Dog-Train by Young, Egerton Ryerson




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