Sentence examples for A more formidable obstacle from inspiring English sources

But in past months the dogs in the shadow of the State Supreme Court on Court Street have run up against a more formidable obstacle -- the Parks Department, which says they have been violating the law for more than two years.

Worse, building a more formidable obstacle course on the southwestern border would give people-smugglers a pretext for charging their clients higher fees.

Climate change may affect the barn swallow; drought causes weight loss and slow feather regrowth, and the expansion of the Sahara will make it a more formidable obstacle for migrating European birds.

Solar arrays ten rows deep, surrounded by chain-link fences, are not as high or imposing as a wall, but they would constitute a much more formidable obstacle course, one that would be decisively more strenuous and time-consuming to cross over or under than a single concrete wall.

The more formidable obstacle has been a lack of supporting infrastructure at home.

But while the mass of Corbyn supporters enjoy the view, some know that their ascent over the summer was a distraction from more formidable obstacles.

The court's 8-to-7 decision focused not on admissions policies per se but on the fact that the process by which the ban was approved — the referendum leading to a constitutional amendment — would inevitably require people who wished to reverse it "to surmount more formidable obstacles than those faced by other groups to achieve their political objectives".

Mr. Bush may have passed one milestone only to encounter more formidable obstacles down the road.

In this case, inertia and resistance to change have been more formidable obstacles to efficient ergonomic design than the design itself.

Like another Elizabeth and Robert before them, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were in love; but they had more formidable obstacles to cope with than Elizabeth Barrett's and Robert Browning's comparatively tame encounters with Victorian respectability.

That makes for a more formidable resistance.