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.

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

One approach is to look at patients who had lesions in different part of the brain, and study changes in their behavior.

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

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

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.

The chemical inhibitors used in this treatment target the enzyme polymerase (PARP1), which is normally involved in the repair of DNA single strand breaks a common form of spontaneous DNA lesions.

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 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.

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 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.