Sentence examples for concrete obstacle from inspiring English sources

Highways were snarled by traffic backed up behind frequent checkpoints, numerous expatriate schools and diplomatic missions were temporarily closed, and concrete obstacle courses were implanted in front of major hotels.

The impression doesn't last, as very occasional instances of asset pop-up break the illusion, and the various shades of grey that make up road, central reservations and sidewalks rather blur into each other, making high-speed turns tricky as it's not always obvious where smooth tarmac ends and vertical concrete obstacle begins.

He identified 300 concrete obstacles to the free movement of people, capital, goods and services.

Others in the magazine business said that Talk also faced more concrete obstacles.

The pair of barriers, which looked like heavy concrete obstacles, seemed out of place in the 13th-floor hallway of Police Headquarters in Lower Manhattan.

— A Ford Transit van slams its way over concrete obstacles in a test of durability here at the automaker's proving grounds some 40 miles north of Detroit.

Elsewhere, anti-tank barriers were made of massive reinforced concrete obstacles, either cubic, pyramidal or cylindrical.

These were blocked by trenches or, more usually, by wooden or concrete obstacles, as well as old cars.

Chunks of concrete were obstacles to anyone but the operator of a Bobcat.

The J-Ring test is performed for all mixtures to measure the passing ability of the concrete through obstacles.

"The first men will go in in small boats, because of mines and underwater obstacles, and Navy demolition men with them will blow us a lane through element C that's sunken concrete and iron obstacles.