Mason writes that Coleridge decided there was no point in relying on a prosecution under the Act, which he regarded as deliberately obstructive.

He was being deliberately obstructive.

They said the authorities had provided almost no cooperation and at times appeared to be deliberately obstructive.

It meant that the Tunisian was being deliberately obstructive and committing hostile acts.

Not all of that was absentminded cuss- edness; quite a few men and women were being deliberately obstructive.

Moreover, I think you know that, and are being deliberately obstructive.

Jenkins, more used to dealing with truculent, deliberately obstructive or stupid seamen, smiled encouragingly.

You were very slow, but you handled that deliberately obstructive patient very well.

He's right that social workers are deliberately obstructive of adoption.

But times had changed and the People were angry; the Senate was seen as deliberately obstructive, and Pompey's veterans wanted their land badly.