Sentence examples for human obstacle from inspiring English sources

She drove against me, the last human obstacle between her and the gulf.

As reassuring as their checks were, I discovered that no human obstacle can get in the way of a parent concerned about their ill child.

PELLA, Iowa — Under the glare of a giant backlighted cross, four volunteers for Ron Paul formed a human obstacle course in front of voters walking into Pella Christian High School here, about an hour's drive east of Des Moines.

Rather, Mr. Olyphant's robotic assassin moves through corridors in effective mimicry of a familiar video game visual strategy, pausing every so often to peer through a gun scope, stare at the pulsing lights on his laptop or brutally dispatch one more generic human obstacle.

Taking a charge against the most imposing force in pro sports is easier written than done, and no one can know the full magnitude of O'Neal's size, speed or agility until the steam comes from the nostrils and he is bearing down on the rim, not even looking at the human obstacle in front of him.

The title characters are literally unsinkable, surviving a flood of biblical proportion that washes much of the past away, resulting in the death of the one human obstacle to their happiness and revealing hidden truths that will free Lark to make a life for herself and the brother to whom she is devoted.

There are human obstacles, too.

A masked Gold Hat drags the human obstacles to a paper jail.

Human obstacles, which tumblers flip over, widen in person-size increments.

Fedfans, like myself, have tended to present Djokovic and Nadal as admittedly gifted players, but, more important, as brutish human obstacles to the ethereal perfection that our man represents.

Heavily laden with sacks of rice, boxes of cigarettes and Coca-Cola from Pokhara, or with bulging boxes full of apples coming down from the high orchard village of Marpha, they plough ahead, ignoring human obstacles.