But fear of the underwater obstructions and torpedoes helped to foil that plan.
Despite obstructions, and also because of them, art moved forward with an activist urgency that it has not lost.
There are protracted bits involving dental floss, slugs and bowel obstructions, and they're not illuminating or subversive -- they're sophomoric.
"And the administration must use every tool they have to get around the obstructions and make it work".
He has devised a computer programme which can unscramble surface obstructions and expose water "shining" far underground.
Two or three weeks later they could not only walk but could also dodge round obstructions and run upstairs.
Giorgio watches Neil at the wheel, following the onscreen chart carefully to ensure the trawl doesn't snag the many marked obstructions and wrecks on the seabed.
What takes the novel past its central credibility problems is its patently sincere wish to see another time as it was, minus the obstructions and condescension of hindsight.
Since then, bureaucratic obstructions and nationalistic sentiment have frustrated attempts by British American Tobacco and other industry leaders to penetrate the market very deeply.
This is itself a response to increasing secularism among people tired of the disruptions, obstructions and conflicts religion so often causes.
Homer observes: The house by this time of our lives was a labyrinth of hazardous pathways, full of obstructions and many dead ends.
