Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as obstructer.

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  • noun obstructer

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take
  • noun any structure that makes progress difficult

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Examples

  • Lately, Chuck Grassley has been labeled the lead GOP obstructor on the Senate Finance Committee and is flip-flopping on positions every time the right-wing party leadership tells him to jump.

    Opposition to the Public Option by Republican Chuck Grassley May End His Political Career 2009

  • Satans, though rarely mentioned in the Old Testament are generally portrayed as obedient servants or sons of God who perform specific duties of strategic obstruction The Hebrew root of the word satan is STN, which defines an opposer, adversary, or an accuser, whereas the Greek equivalent was “Diabolos” from which derive the words diabolical and devil., again meaning no more than obstructor or slanderer.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Satans, though rarely mentioned in the Old Testament are generally portrayed as obedient servants or sons of God who perform specific duties of strategic obstruction The Hebrew root of the word satan is STN, which defines an opposer, adversary, or an accuser, whereas the Greek equivalent was “Diabolos” from which derive the words diabolical and devil., again meaning no more than obstructor or slanderer.

    [sonus] understanding issues: part 7 2009

  • Reno's boss, a perjurer, suborner of perjury, obstructor of justice (when is that disbarment hearing?), set the stage for government violence against Elian's relatives.

    Compassionate Liberalism 2008

  • No, not our leading Iraq liar and schemer, congressional inquiry obstructor, "energy policy" conspirator, no-bid-contract "coordinator," and duck-hunter extraordinaire -- not Cheney, of course, but Al Gore.

    Jack Huberman: Who's Screwing America -- Battle of the 100 Lists 2008

  • BLITZER: Because I-- because, yesterday, when I spoke to Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, she -- she basically says, you're -- this is obstructor-ism.

    CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2007 2007

  • This commutation of a liar and an obstructor of justice will go down in the annals of American shame.

    Outrage: Bush Commutes Libby Sentance 2007

  • Will we ever learn the truth, or has a certain justice obstructor made that all but impossible?

    Think Progress » Cheney gets heckled at speech, 2005

  • I never said I would fire a perjurer or an obstructor.

    Firedoglake » Yeah I Got Your Spin Right Here 2006

  • He had to contend against treachery, desertion and want, but rose above all these obstacles, and proved himself the most powerful obstructor that the British columns had to encounter in South

    In the Shadow of Death P. H. Kritzinger

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