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Obstacle in sentence

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But we shouldn't forget that throughout the history of our language, it has always been teachers or people involved in the early learning of language who promoted spelling reforms, who realized that in our spelling there was often an obstacle to the transmission of knowledge.
The Royal Spanish Academy, all of language academies, also believes that spelling should be progressively modified; that language is linked to history, tradition and custom, but that at the same time, it is a practical everyday tool and that sometimes this attachment to history, tradition and custom becomes an obstacle for its current usage.
And the tension here is between institution as enabler and institution as obstacle.
But when you're down here, where the Psycho Milts of the world are adding one photo at a time, that's institution as obstacle.
Last year we did a dance in zero gravity, and once we set up an obstacle course out of thousands of musical instruments in the desert, and then played them by stunt driving a car through them.
And what's the biggest obstacle to having a sense of purpose in late life?
What you see here is the character standing there, and there's an obstacle that we put in its way.
And what you see is, it's going to fall over the obstacle.
Now, the interesting bit is, if I move the obstacle a tiny bit to the right, which is what I'm doing now, here, it will fall over it in a completely different way.
And again, if you move the obstacle a tiny bit, it'll again fall differently.
But, legend has it that there was one obstacle that even the impressive Khan couldn’t overcome: A towering wall of ice, grown by locals across a mountain pass to stop the Khan’s armies from invading their territory.
But this journey faces a formidable obstacle: gravity.
But there was one big obstacle in my way.
His biggest obstacle, really, was the marketplace, which demands these days bright yellow foie gras.
That my identity was an obstacle I had to overcome.
And so I thought, "Come at me, obstacle.
If I could go back and say anything to that nine-year-old, dancing in the den, dreaming her dreams, I would say, my identity is not my obstacle.
And I've faced every obstacle as an artwork.
So, the assignment I've been given may be an insuperable obstacle for me, but I'm certainly going to try.
You see, the biggest obstacle to dealing with climate disruptions lies between your ears.
And once it meets an obstacle, it jumps over it.
But when David Ha set up this experiment, he had to set it up with very, very strict limits on how big the AI was allowed to make the legs, because otherwise ... (Laughter) And technically, it got to the end of that obstacle course.
The US government will point to the lowest asylum approval rates to argue that these people are not really refugees, when in fact, US asylum law is an obstacle course designed to make them fail.
You give them an obstacle course.
My colleagues actually went on to test this limitation, by increasing the moment of inertia of a student, so they had a tail, and running them through and obstacle course, and found a decrement in performance, like you'd predict.
And if they came across an obstacle, like a rock, they had to sort it out themselves.
Inequalities in China and India I consider really the big obstacle because to bring the entire population into growth and prosperity is what will create a domestic market, what will avoid social instability, and which will make use of the entire capacity of the population.
And each time we have some ice in the future, we have to know that life will be great, and the success will be brilliant if we dare to overcome our fear of the ice, to go through the obstacle, to go through the problem, in order to see what there is on the other side.
Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life.
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
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