The phrase 'clearing obstacles' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase that can be used to describe overcoming challenges or impediments in order to achieve a goal. For example, "The team was determined to complete their project by the deadline, so they worked tirelessly, clearing obstacles along the way."
The US also desperately needs deep structural reform of its education system, clearing obstacles to introducing technology and competition.
That means clearing obstacles to entrepreneurship and immigration of skilled would-be entrepreneurs, improving patent laws, investing in critical infrastructure, and so on.
Aussie-rules show-jumping between the wars was a tough, backwoods sport, in which riders and horses risked their necks clearing obstacles up to eight feet high.
Some countries that do not have such agreements, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Malaysia, have expressed interest in clearing obstacles to building nuclear reactors.
Soon we'll see EA's Army of Two, in which players must communicate constantly, collaboratively clearing obstacles, protecting each other, employing the characters' different weapons and skills in a holistic, combined approach.
The remarkable progress of marriage equality in the past decade makes it clear that neither a legal nor a political strategy alone work; they have succeeded in tandem — legal decisions clearing obstacles, political efforts building a democratic consensus.
"She was right there, every step of the way, trying to clear obstacles for Jay, looking for every trick," Dr. Mark B. Pochapin, who cared for Jay Monahan, recalls.
All 12 of the recent deaths occurred during the cross-country phase as riders attempted to clear obstacles, including some that were startlingly simple.
One example is a particularly destructive attack that clears obstacles, which means that your path may literally be blocked until you go and find more energy.
Adrienne Leonard, the co-founder and chief executive of Pain to Power, said the group hoped to clear obstacles that prevent parents from keeping a street-corner vigil every school day.
Confounded by a treacherous sorcerer, the prince clears obstacles to his romance with the lovely Peri-Banu, who is royalty herself but in servitude to the black spirits of the island of Waq Waq.
