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Obstacle in sentence

505 examples of Obstacle in a sentence

My host explained to me, "Well, the robot is trying to get from point A to point B, and you were an obstacle in his way, so he had to replan his path, figure out where to go, and then get there some other way," which was actually not a very efficient thing to do.
So as a robotics company, we added some obstacle avoidance to the system.
People did hit fewer obstacles using that system, obviously, but actually, for some of the people, it took them a lot longer to get through our obstacle course, and we wanted to know why.
Of course, when you're on the ice, you only ever see one obstacle at a time, whether it's a pressure ridge or there's a bit of water.
We tend to think that science is all about facts and logic and human feelings are often neglected or considered an obstacle to get rid of.
This absurd movie was about a "Goodie-two-shoe," teen-girl that really wanted to be Valedictorian but finds her obstacle in a teacher name Mrs. Tingle.
His only obstacle appears to be winning over Costner.
For any family that has risen to overcome a challenge or an obstacle - be it financial or illness - this film strikes a resounding chord!
Especially during the first part it is an elaborate crime picture, that uses the SF premise to tell an unusual crime story in which the forced detective tries to solve a mystery with the obstacle of vanishing characters and unhelpful witnesses who don't have to lie to be unhelpful.
Many of the Navy phrases and terms go over my head, though, but it's a small obstacle for the sheer accuracy and realism of the movie and its characters.
With all of mainland Europe under his control Hitler prepares for the last obstacle in his way before heading for North America, Great Britain.
The major obstacle to the family's stability and happiness is his wife, Christina (Franka Potente), who flagrantly violates her wedding vows by shamelessly shacking up with other men.
The way to gain access, the US concludes, is to win an obstacle course like cross-country race, where the winner can ask anything of the leader.
Because the plot needs an obstacle.
Characters are already mostly likable (so one might say it had less of a hill to climb than "My Sassy Girl"--an obstacle that worked for that movie to its credit), and the movie is quite clever and interesting most of the way.
The best obstacle is a knocked over mop bucket which one jock jumps over but proceeds to slide on the ground out a door.
The mountain is the obstacle to life's fulfillment, people are dammed to pursue their dreams to their own destruction and only the old woman in the house at the base of the mountain knows what life is all about.
The movie starts with the 3 hero's doing a pretty cool obstacle course at their grandfather's place but learn a valuable lesson when he turns off the power and then makes them attempt it backwards.
When they arrive there, a real obstacle course awaits for them.
With this cartoon, Sylvester the Cat has a new obstacle in trying to catch the Tweety Bird: His owner, Granny, as originally voiced by Bea Benaderet (June Foray would later take over).
It can't possibly do Albert Brooks' life any good to know that he co-wrote and directed such a limp comedy as "The Muse", which, looking back, could be pinpointed as a stalling-point in his film-making career as well as an obstacle for actresses Sharon Stone and Andie MacDowell, both surprisingly stiff here.
Mr. Lew plays Buford Lee, an unsuccessful actor who is trying to finally make it big with a top notch film but Buford runs into one obstacle after another keeping him from completing his movie.
Led by a their motivated, stop at nothing, leader Maddie they take out any obstacle that gets in their way.
Although, Tanner is the main obstacle, Valdez is also challenged by Tanner's formidable collection of professional gunmen assembled by his experienced right-hand man, El Segundo (Barton Heyman).
Europe’s lack of a collective defense strategy, together with declining investment in military capacity, is also a serious obstacle to its continuing global influence as a security actor.
But under-equipped hospitals may not be the greatest obstacle to controlling China's AIDS crisis.
The 200-plus exclusively Jewish settlements built in Palestinian territories have long posed an insuperable obstacle to the two sides’ peaceful coexistence as two independent states.
By December 2016, Obama was allowing the UN Security Council to vote on that Trump-derided resolution declaring Israel’s settlement construction a “major obstacle” to a two-state solution.
The Cyprus issue should therefore not be construed as an obstacle to the start of negotiations.
But in the more "advanced" socialist countries, such as Russia, where 90% of the population was employed in state-owned industries, restructuring the state sector – a much harder job in many ways – was a necessity, and an obstacle to quick recovery.
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