Sentence examples for mean an obstacle from inspiring English sources

The crunch is hardest, pensioners readily volunteer, for younger generations who grew up on cheap, seemingly limitless credit, with the impression that Spain's and Portugal's comparatively low wages (Portugal's minimum wage is less than €500, or £438, a month) did not necessarily mean an obstacle to smart cars or spanking new villas.

In contrast to Newton's vision of wretchedness as his willful sin and distance from God, wretchedness has instead come to mean an obstacle of physical, social, or spiritual nature to overcome in order to achieve a state of grace, happiness, or contentment.

Autonomy of decisions by practitioners may mean an obstacle to the early evaluation of new technologies since under uso tutelado (monitored use) it is physicians who start using them.

Serial dismissal for incompetence is by no means an obstacle to getting another job.

But this limited palette was by no means an obstacle for their creativity.

Siting any major infrastructure, whether a wind turbine, pipeline or transmission line, takes time, but it is by no means an insurmountable obstacle.

The effort illustrates that the technology for profit sharing is by no means an insurmountable obstacle, as the Times might like to claim.

"I mean, life is an obstacle course," Jacob said, "and you don't expect to win all the time.

What we mean by obstacle is an established way of thinking that resists change due to its explanatory power.

Financial means cannot be an obstacle to people fulfilling their academic and career goals.

The consequences of a Serena win are straightforward — it would mean another obstacle hurdled as she chases the first calendar sweep of the four major tournaments since Steffi Graf in 1988.