Obstructive vs Filibusterism - What's the difference?
obstructive | filibusterism |
Causing obstructions.
* I wanted to see his report on me, but my manager was being obstructive .
(dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
(US) The practice of forcefully and unauthorisedly acquiring control of foreign land.
* 1858 April, , Volume 1, Number 6,
* 1859 , (editor), Politics at Home and Abroad'', in ''Brownson's Quarterly Review , Volume 4,
* 1986 , J. D. Hardin, Murder on the Rails ,
The practice of delaying legislation by filibuster or other obstructive tactics.
As an adjective obstructive
is causing obstructions.As a noun filibusterism is
(dated) piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.obstructive
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* obstructively * obstructivenessfilibusterism
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Noun
(-)- All this was simply weakness; but in turning from the conduct of the Finances by the administration, to consider its management of Filibusterism , we pass from the consideration of acts of mere debility to the consideration of acts which have a color of duplicity in them. On the Filibusters, as on the Finances, the First Annual Message of the President was outspoken and forcible. It characterized the past and proposed doings of and his crew, as the common sense and common conscience of the world had already characterised them, as nothing short of piracy and murder.
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- Conservatism has come to mean, with us, filibusterism , the acquisition of our neighbor's land, the extension of negro slavery, the reopening of the slave trade, and placing under the ban of society every publicist who raises his voice against such conservatism.
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- Doc furtively kicked him in the side of the leg, to remind him that the main reason they were there was to hush up even the faintest suspicions that filibusterism was flaring up again in Central America.
