It doesn't engage us through the usual strategies of evocative description or heroic characters or a journey marked by obstacles: it is instead an unruly, layered, shifting text resembling a post-modern pastiche.
Figure 6 shows the different steps of marking the obstacles on the road.
For many foreign companies, this year has been marked by other obstacles, further tainting the business climate.
Throughout the first 10 months of his presidency, Mr. Obama has grown accustomed to sailing through what often appear to be dispiriting times, marked by major obstacles and perceptions that he is flailing.
According to Talmudic commentary, assembled in the twelfth century, the roads leading to the cities of refuge were to be well marked, free of obstacles, and wider than regular roads, so that those who have killed another unwittingly could proceed there without delay.
The battle between McAuliffe's administration and the legislature has been a protracted one, and marked by unexpected obstacles: Democratic state Sen. Phillip Puckett resigned earlier this month, which gave the GOP control of the state Senate and the ability to insert the budget language blocking a potential Medicaid expansion.
If this river is marked by numerous obstacles, the aim is to minimize the time taken by the fish to enter the pass, so that the migrating fish reach the reproduction areas on time.
The women in turn do their best to ignore each other while seeking companionship elsewhere: the wife, a restless, succulent beauty who wouldn't be out of place in a Tennessee Williams play, retreats into another man's arms, while her sister-in-law keeps tabs on a young neighborhood girl, Batti (Pumidika Sapurni Peiris), for whom life is an obstacle course marked by poison and grasping old men.
When the sufficient number of matched points is found, particular obstacle is marked as recognized and it is not tested more.
From a changing legislative landscape, to a dramatically evolving cultural and social backdrop, the path of women entrepreneurs is marked by sometimes surprising obstacles and often inspiring triumphs.
The large-scale ice-block obstacle marks produced within the proglacial zone are diagnostic of jökulhlaups.
