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Obstructed views or not, perhaps no one will be anticipating the diving-board stage as much as Leslie Ayvazian, a playwright and professor at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2012

Obstructed from the front, shoved from the rear, I was immediately engulfed in an unreguarding tide of high-spirited Humanity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Obstructed by a bank, the creek is dead and dry save when the floods of the wet season co-operate with high tides and effect a breach, to be repaired on the cessation of the rains.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Obstructed Outflow A reservoir with a free outlet can only fill during a flood; and then quickly empties itself again.

From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Nance, Willis O.

But yet through thee a numbing dread Of fiends among our band has spread; Obstructed by the demons' art The trembling hermits talk apart.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)