Sentence examples for erected obstacles from inspiring English sources

Other, such as France, erected obstacles at their southern frontiers (against the spirit of Schengen) to stop the refugees or migrants from coming north.

That China and post-Soviet Russia have erected obstacles to a rerun of that human rights war in Syria is easy to chalk up to retrograde interests.

Rep. King of Iowa has always erected obstacles in the path of fixing our immigration system.

Mr. Starr's supporters have responded that at every turn of his investigation, the White House and aides to the President have erected obstacles that have made it impossible to get to the bottom of the Whitewater case.

But the two front-runners, Mr. Rutte and Mr. Samsom, have erected political obstacles to building what many feel to be an inevitable coalition of their parties plus smaller ones, probably including the D66.

A generous colleague but not the passive type -- good artists aren't passive, generally -- Mr. Close has typically erected constructive obstacles for himself and his collaborators, the conquest of which can bring about something special or new.

Financial services, Velez said, has been controlled by massive oligopolies that have erected unfair obstacles to wealth creation for the masses.

"Your deteriorating mental health robbed you of proper insight into what was going wrong and erected real obstacles between you and people and the agencies that were trying so hard to help you". He continued: "You faced the prospect of Ajit being taken away from you, but you killed him.

Mr. Murdoch's ability to overcome obstacles — whether erected by politicians, regulators, unions or business rivals — that thwarted other moguls has been the key his success.

Slum-dwellers complained about the obstacles the powerful erected to prevent them from sharing in new profit.

The obstacle was made of an erected piece of cardboard (30 × 30 cm) located at specific designations in the sound-proof chamber.