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Obstacle in sentence

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Every small obstacle, every slight uphill, would cause these fellows to stop in their tracks and give up.
When faced with an obstacle, somehow water finds a solution, without force, without conflict.
The manner in which we mistreat our public spaces is a huge obstacle towards any type of progressive political change, because we've essentially put a price tag on freedom of expression.
This is a huge problem and a huge obstacle to change, because it means that some of the most passionate and informed voices are completely silenced, especially during election time.
Now we're the country that has full-time lobbyists in the European Union and Washington DC, threatening trade wars when these countries talk about wanting to bring in positive legislation to limit the import of high-carbon fuels, of greenhouse gas emissions, anything like this, at international conferences, whether they're in Copenhagen or Cancun, international conferences on climate change, we're the country that gets the dinosaur award every single day, as being the biggest obstacle to progress on this issue.
Let me now talk about another behavioral obstacle to saving having to do with inertia.
It's like a video game obstacle course.
And, playing, I realized that the maneuverability of this was really amazing, and I could avoid an obstacle at the very last second, more maneuverable than a normal boat.
Here's the crux of the obstacle.
So a river is designed to channel the flow of water, and the lightning bolt that comes out of a cloud channels the flow of electricity, and a leaf is designed to channel the flow of nutrients to the tree, sometimes even having to route around an obstacle, but to get that nutrition flowing.
The first is how it deals with this obstacle that we've put in its way.
And that is why so many students perceive this science like this ... as an obstacle in their path, and they fear it and they hate it and they call it a weed-out course.
And, unfortunately, after thinking about this for some time, I identified the main obstacle.
It's hard to imagine a civilization without bridges because they're so essential for growth and development of human society, but they're not just about a safe way across a river or an obstacle.
When these particles get to the road, they sense some kind of obstacle, and they bounce against it.
The only difference between the dominant female, here in red, and the other individuals, is that for her, the height of the obstacle, which is in fact the risk perceived from the road, is just slightly higher, and this tiny difference in the individual's rule of movement is sufficient to explain what we observe, that the dominant female leads her group to the road and then gives way to the others for them to cross first.
One fundamental obstacle we face in trying to turn the brain into a big-data problem is that our brains are composed of and built from billions of cells.
Asma was referring to the rise of religious fundamentalism in the region, which is another obstacle to women in particular.
The most modern incarnation is called the brainport, and this is a little electrogrid that sits on your tongue, and the video feed gets turned into these little electrotactile signals, and blind people get so good at using this that they can throw a ball into a basket, or they can navigate complex obstacle courses.
We have a very long way to go, a very long way to go, but we now approach every obstacle with a "So What.
If there is one most difficult obstacle to my way of communicating, it is that sometimes I want to shout and other times simply to whisper a word of love or gratitude.
We've actually known for a while that certain kinds of difficulty, certain kinds of obstacle, can actually improve our performance.
Secondly, the biggest obstacle standing in our way may actually just be in our heads.
She was passionate about that goal and she was clear that she would let no army, no obstacle, no big institution stand in her way.
But there is one more big obstacle we have to think about.
In fact, it may be the biggest obstacle of all.
They said that they had never done this before, and they couldn't guarantee a response, but they wouldn't be an obstacle, and they would deliver it.
So what this tells us is that the real obstacle is not ability, and it's not circumstances.
And frankly, I face a big obstacle.
When you get rejected in life, when you are facing the next obstacle or next failure, consider the possibilities.
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