Sentence examples for obstacle at from inspiring English sources

Geography was an obstacle at first.

The biggest obstacle at first was persuading him to be included".

But the biggest obstacle (at least in most rich countries) is children.

Roberth Huth and Ryan Shawcross are a formidable obstacle at the back.

To Ferguson's certain chagrin, Roy Keane and Nicky Butt were no obstacle at all last night.

And another obstacle, at least for Mr. Aboud, was a longstanding campus face-off.

But Soriano will be a scary obstacle at the bottom of the Yankees' lineup in close games.

If being Indian and a woman was not an obstacle at Shell, being married and a woman definitely was.

"If we believe that Congress is the obstacle at this point, we have to send that message, that we're not interested in hearing them bicker," she said.

That is an incredible waste of effort and money, and a huge obstacle at a time when researchers are developing promising new therapies that must be rigorously tested.

Here, as in the other exhibitions, contemporary Western society is the main obstacle — at best an irrelevance, at worst a threat.