Sentence examples for geographic obstacle from inspiring English sources

Settlers and settlements not only pose a geographic obstacle to the advent of a contiguous Palestinian second state; they pose a political and economic obstacle as well.

"The fence is just a geographic obstacle, they can't put a fence in my heart," said Leila Salman, a 31-year-old who is running a protest camp just near the border where hundreds of Kurds have gathered from around Turkey in a show of solidarity with the besieged town.

It was quickly breached, and the German command attempted to assemble a second defensive line on the Coriano ridge, a hilly spur to the north of the Conca river, and the last major geographic obstacle south of Rimini.

Emigration Canyon (Donner Hill) (1283 mile west) — About a year before the Latter-day Saint emigrants, the Reed-Donner wagon train carved the first road through the final geographic obstacle between Big Mountain and the Salt Lake Valley.

During the millennia that followed, migrants entered the region from various directions, regardless of the geographic obstacles they encountered.

In addition, the sandy soil and flat land of the Connecticut River valley make it ideal for development, because it is well drained and there are no geographic obstacles.

The director here, Gianni Amelio, has several powerful features under his belt, including "The Stolen Children" and "Lamerica," and while it's a pleasure to see his name on the screen again (his last feature, "The Way We Laughed," was released here in 2001), it is disconcerting to find him navigating around such geographic obstacles.

This grouping is caused either by geographic obstacles that arrest the diffusion of a number of innovations along the same line or by historical circumstances, such as political borders of long standing, or by migrations that have brought into contact two populations whose dialects were developed in noncontiguous areas.

There are also certain geographic obstacles that make this business challenging.

In a country with a lot of political strife and distribution with large geographic obstacles, communications networks are a lifeline for many ordinary, law-abiding people, too.

Absent natural geographic obstacles like oceans, deserts, or large mountain ranges, Russia relies on defensive depth.