Word Finder - obstacles

definition

Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

example

A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.

I knew that there were obstacles in the way; but I was eager to overcome them.

Despite the many obstacles it had to meet, including drought, commercial depression and the hostility of many of the ex-burghers, the crown colony administration had achieved remarkable results.

Josh wasn't considering her obstacles.

Trains running through gates at levelcrossings or into other obstacles 10.

Gibbon was eight-and-thirty when he entered parliament; and the obstacles which even at an earlier period he had not had courage to encounter were hardly likely to be vanquished then.

Yet, in spite of the obstacles, it seemed utterly sinful to ignore the potential.

The Hindenburg line had been breached on a front of nine miles, and an average advance of seven miles effected in the face of the most formidable obstacles, both natural and artificial.

There were other obstacles besides the mild persecutions of the church.

Thus, after a struggle of more than half a century, ix spite of apparently insuperable obstacles, the liberation an the unity of Italy were accomplished.

Want of power, or other obstacles, delayed the final extinction of tolerated Mahommedanism in all parts of Spain, but by 1525 it was everywhere suppressed.

In Arabia he encountered serious obstacles from the nature of the country and the harassing mode of warfare adopted by his adversaries.

Prejudice and real or imaginary legal obstacles stood in the way of the erection of episcopal sees in the colonies; and though in the 17th century Archbishop Laud had attempted to obtain a bishop for Virginia, up to the time of the American revolution the churchmen of the colonies had to make the best of the legal fiction that their spiritual needs were looked after by the bishop of London, who occasionally sent commissaries to visit them and ordained candidates for the ministry sent to England for the purpose.

Civil obstacles have hitherto delayed its adoption by the metropolitan of India.

The abolition of the papal jurisdiction removed all obstacles to the divorce from Catherine and to the legalization of Henry's marriage with Anne Boleyn (1533).

The obstacles would seem, indeed, to be insurmountable.

Nevertheless despite these obstacles, President Uriburu did something during his term of office to relieve the nation's financial difficulties.

The importance of this provision in the case of aquatic vascular plants of sturdy bulk is even greater than in that of terrestrial organisms, as their environment offers considerable obstacles to the renewal of the air in their interior.

Although Borlaug and company encountered many obstacles, they pressed on, planting seed at night illuminated by flashes of artillery fire.

But if they unintentionally placed obstacles in my way, I have the consolation of knowing that I overcame them all.

The child's eagerness and interest carry her over many obstacles that would be our undoing if we stopped to define and explain everything.

Get around the obstacles and you have succeeded.

Dora uses tools like the Map to help find her way across challenges and obstacles to her destination.

When you're descending through a rapid, it is much harder to see obstacles ahead.

In face of obstacles apparently insurmountable he had made a nation, consolidating all the forces which Wallace had stirred into life.

But it must by no means be supposed that every man who goes out hunting desires to gallop at a great pace and to jump formidable obstacles, or indeed any obstacles at all.

The states of Rapture are called Conditions of Bliss, and they are regarded as useful for the help they give towards the removal of the mental obstacles to the attainment of Arahatship.6 Of the thirty-seven constituent parts of Arahatship they enter into one group of four.

The gradual removal of obstacles from the commerce of the island from 1766 to 1818 particularly benefited Havana.

But Tait had none of Tillotson's gentleness, and he rode roughshod over the obstacles in his way.

The indiscriminate slaughter of fry, and the obstacles opposed by irrigation dams to breeding fish, are said to be causing a sensible diminution in the supply in certain rivers.

Amongst the Hindu higher castes there are serious obstacles in the way of conversion, of which family influence and the caste system are the greatest.

Although he encountered enormous obstacles, including famine and mutiny, the hostility and treachery of the natives and of foreigners, and the neglect of the home government, he laid a sure foundation for permanent Spanish occupation.

In the Philippines the humane policy of the home government had no such powerful obstacles to contend with.

Here also his policy failed against physical, social and political obstacles.

These two men were the chief obstacles to Moawiya's plan for securing the Caliphate for his son Yazid.

Along the Path are ranged ten great obstacles, or fetters, the Buddhist Sanyojanas, which have to be successively overcome before the final goal is reached.

It was foreordained that Messiah's witnesses should be borne by Divine power through all obstacles and to ever-widening circles, until they reached and occupied Rome itself for the God of Israel - now manifest (as foretold by Israel's own prophets) as the one God of the one race of mankind.

One of the most puzzling features in its structure, and, at the same time, one of the greatest obstacles to the view that it is essentially primitive and not merely a degenerate creature, is the entire absence of the paired organs of special sense, olfactory, optic and auditory, which are so characteristic of the higher vertebrates.

High-born, wealthy and accomplished, she was resolved to be Nero's wife, and set herself to remove the obstacles which stood in her way.

As an idea, the empire grew in visionary power, and remained one of the chief obstacles in the way of both Italian and German national coherence.

In the classics they found the food which was required to nourish the new spirit; and a variety of circumstances, among which must be reckoned the pride of a nation boasting of its descent from the Populus Romanus, rendered them apt to fling aside the obstacles that had impeded the free action of the mind through many centuries.

He achieved his success despite serious obstacles.

But, before proceeding to unfold his method, Bacon found it necessary to enter in considerable detail upon the general subject of the obstacles to progress, and devoted nearly the whole of the first book of the Organum to the examination of them.

The same writer states that the country was spacious, populous and hard to be penetrated; that it abounded in dangers; that the paths and roads were beset with difficulties; and that the obstacles to conquest were more than could be expressed.

In order that no obstacles should be placed in the way for renewed negotiations, Mr Bostrom, the prime minister, resigned and was succeeded by Mr Ramstedt.

Here the prevalence of mud is one of the chief obstacles, and for this reason the tile-collectors are usually fastened together by wire and suspended to posts (tuiles en bouquets).

In their lower reaches the two rivers - both large streams - traverse a level plain, separated by no obstacles.

Froude to visit South Africa unofficially, and by travelling through its different states find out what were the obstacles to confederation and the means by which such obstacles could be removed.

Following the Inquisition and the Jesuits came two other obstacles to the cultivation of letters, the censorship of books and the Indexes, and, as if these plagues were not enough, the Spanish domination followed.

The obstacles are (I) the smallness of the waves, and (2) the changes which occur at speeds too rapid for the eye to follow.

But the missionaries were not interested in the settlement of the country by Europeans, the fur traders were generally opposed to it, there was bitter strife between the missionaries and Cadillac, and the French system of absolutism in government and monopoly in trade were further obstacles to progress.