In the UK, the election of the New Labour government in 1997, with Tony Blair as Prime Minister, began a series of reforms and reviews of most social programs. The reforms were designed to promote paid employment as the best way out of poverty, especially by making work pay (Sheldrick, 2000; Evans & Millar, 2006).
According to the criminal code of Alabama, obstructing governmental operations is defined by the following: (a) A person commits the crime of obstructing governmental operations if, by means of intimidation, physical force or interference or by any other independently unlawful act, he: (1) Intentionally obstructs, impairs or hinders the administration of law or other governmental function; or
1. a person or thing that obstructs. 2. the act or an instance of obstructing. 3. (Parliamentary Procedure) delay of business, esp in a legislature by means of procedural devices. 4. (General Sporting Terms) sport the act of unfairly impeding an opposing player. 5. the state or condition of being obstructed.