Obstructive bronchitis.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), also known as chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD), and chronic obstructive airway disease (COAD), among others, is a type of obstructive lung disease characterized by chronically poor airflow.

(Laughter) I've coined the phrase obstructive conservatism.

Do you really want to elect a president whose genome suggests cardiomyopathy?

Do you really want to elect a president whose genome suggests cardiomyopathy?

While touring in support of Sinner , he died on August 14, 2002 from cardiomyopathy.

c Until 1997 referred to as other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.

The rise of radical Islamism has been no less obstructive when it comes to Arab democracy.

I never knew what kind of day we were going to have ... would she be cooperative or obstructive?

Unfortunately, the international community's good will and generous efforts were always confronted by the obstructive nature of the Israeli occupation.

If the Greeks cannot see that, their partners must let them know that there is a price for their obstructive behavior.

The Office of the High Representative, along with the European Commission, managed to renegotiate the obstructive positions of the relevant parties.

But there are more potential supporters of Brexit some keen European Unionists who have found the UK s often obstructive membership increasingly annoying.

The reason for these negative effects appears to be that high corporatism is strongly correlated with stifled entrepreneurship and obstructive job protection.

Hence these diseases are the most frequent cause of death, with cardiomyopathy, acute cardiac arrest, occlusion of cerebral blood vessels, malignant diseases of the respiratory system being the leading ones.

This has proved to be obstructive to the performance of the Council apos s paramount role, namely the maintenance of international peace and security.

The debate over the American embargo pales in comparison removed to a far corner of the mind to the obstructive domestic situation that envelops them.

Only by such a program can Russia hope to eventually play an effective not merely obstructive role in developing the oil wealth of the Caucasus.

In the Kass and Kalma camps in South Darfur, difficulties in the registration process have been compounded by the actions of obstructive local government authorities.

The problem is most acute in areas where Bosnian Croats currently constitute a majority, and often has associated with it obstructive practices of local authorities.

To authorize the following levels of production and consumption necessary to satisfy essential uses of chlorofluorocarbons for metered dose inhalers for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

This is the latest in a series of obstructive actions taken since the summer of 2002 and belies the frequently professed acceptance by Ethiopia of the Delimitation Decision.

Moreover, numerous conscripts and reservists have reportedly been prevented by obstructive tactics on the part of local Offices of Defence from submitting their requests within the required time.

In January 2001 the then new Premier Ivica Racan faced a sharp choice swiftly purge state bureaucracies of Tudjman's partisans or yield to the obstructive ploys of HDZ loyalists.

Because it inflames upper airway tissues, smoking often leads to obstructive sleep apnoea. Alcohol and sedatives can worsen apnoea as well acting as muscle relaxants, they make the airway smaller.

Israel must also renounce its illusions and desist from its intransigent and obstructive tactics, for the road to a just, comprehensive and durable peace is to be found only in ending occupation.

But it does not mean that America s leaders can continue to ignore the political system s shortcomings, such as the gerrymandered safe seats in the House of Representatives and obstructive processes in the Senate.

In the assessment of the Commission, this is the latest in a series of obstructive actions taken since the summer of 2002, which belies the frequently professed acceptance by Ethiopia of the delimitation decision.

In fact, among the 12 large OECD nations, a higher degree of corporatism as commonly measured is loosely associated with lower employment and lower productivity. The reason for these negative effects appears to be that high corporatism is strongly correlated with stifled entrepreneurship and obstructive job protection.

This evidence linking employment to dynamism and tracing dynamism to favorable institutions, such as a well developed stock market, and to obstructive institutions, such as myriad licenses for entry by new firms, is an advance in our understanding of healthy economies. It is useful to know that there is vastly more to creating economic dynamism than private property and that high unemployment is not to be laid solely to labor market restrictions.