Sentence examples for like a hurdle from inspiring English sources

"It's like a hurdle race, as [team psychiatrist] Steve Peters says.

Travelers will increasingly find ticket counters set like islands in the middle of check-in areas, rather than arrayed along the back like a hurdle.

"Once it's in the software," Cappelli writes, "each requirement, critical or trivial, essentially becomes something like a hurdle that applicants have to clear to become a qualified candidate".

The up front time and money investment into these applications may seem like a hurdle, but as Alred Jr. shared, if you set everything to your specifications and watch it produce, you can spend your time working on activities that bring you more value.

You just think about the next braking zone, the next corner, it's like a hurdles race – one at a time and once you're past it you don't dwell on it, you think about what's next ahead of you".

"You have to prepare for things that aren't expected to happen, like clipping a hurdle and finding yourself behind by half a metre.

In a way the film's fluctuating timeline seemed like less of a hurdle than a conceit that's proposed early on: that Los Angeles — where Tom and Summer live — is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

"It's like running a hurdles race, if you want to win a hurdles race the only thing you need to focus on is what's in front of you.

Earlier in the tour, the nightly reading felt like an ordeal, then a hurdle, then a testing routine.

Staff who want their union recognised should have to achieve a majority in a ballot, not be required (as at present) also to obtain support from at least 40% of everyone entitled to vote - no government would accept a hurdle like that in getting itself elected.

Confirmation doesn't look like as much of a hurdle for Acosta, as it was for Puzder, who faced multiple scandals up until he withdrew his nomination on Wednesday.