Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. idiomatic obstructing, blocking, or hindering
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. so as to meet, fall in with, obstruct, hinder, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. forming a hindrance, impediment, or obstruction
Examples
“He said he's not willing to "restructure the program" in the way the House GOP would — a way that would have seniors paying "$6,000 more.”
USA Today: Obama calls on Congress to act on big debt ceiling deal
“• Stalemated in its war with Iraq, Iran was threatening to block lawful shipping through the Gulf of Hormuz, and both countries claimed the right to attack third-country oil tankers that got in the way of their troops.”
“It will cause an eventual, and inevitable, modification in the way man comprehends the man-God relationship—perhaps the most important keystone in his ego-structure and in his concept of his place in eternity.”
“We started talking at the train-station bar—we were both having a beer—and in the way that Americans abroad sometimes become instant friends, he took me under his wing.”
“The Universalists 'contention that all should finally be saved lest Redemption be a failure is not only unsupported by, but also opposed to, the New Dispensation which far from suppressing the general laws of the natural order, places in the way of salvation many indispensable conditions or laws of a freely established supernatural order.”
“Not much in the way of drama, then, but some amiable salt-of-the-earth time spent moving wardrobes with the team.”
“Teenage defender Grant Hanley - making his Rovers senior debut - showed he was not afraid to go in where it hurts when he got in the way of a Carew attempt, and Stewart Downing came off worst in a clash of heads with Michel Salgado as they leapt to meet Ashley Young's cross, the former Middlesbrough winger having to receive treatment before carrying on.”
“Jesuits for power; on the contrary they grew in the most natural manner out of the efforts to obviate the three principal difficulties in the way of the conversion of the heathen resulting from the prevailing encomienda system, namely:”
“At Cole-Haan, you can see its influence in the way we do things.”
“Something in the way Mogad spoke, Aldo decided, was wrong.”
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
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ways
some of all the ways - always -in every way
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