Sentence examples for personal obstacle from inspiring English sources

She cleared a personal obstacle in 1997, the 50th anniversary of her father's breakthrough in baseball.

It is a cultural predicament, an evolutionary challenge, more than it is a personal obstacle.

With MCII, participants first identify a personal wish or goal (e.g., being physically fit), identify and imagine the most positive future outcomes of goal attainment (e.g., being healthier), and mentally contrast the most positive future outcome with the primary personal obstacle currently impeding their goal attainment (e.g., feeling too tired to exercise).

Specifically, Oxbridge-educated scientists from the middle of the last century who made monumental breakthroughs despite enormous personal obstacles.

Universities should still be free to take students' backgrounds into account: whether, for example, they come from a poor home, or have surmounted personal obstacles.

The Olympics is all about the human spirit and its indomitable will to succeed in spite of the odds (i.e., personal obstacles they've had to overcome in order to be there and competing at that level).

To help improve social mobility in the legal profession, the scheme offers LPC scholarships to talented students who have overcome exceptional social, educational, financial or personal obstacles to train to qualify as a solicitor.

Tonight's victory represented a victory over personal obstacles, but it also represented the triumph of individualism by a free-spirited swimmer over the sometimes obsessive conformity in the sport.

None of the personal obstacles that I faced as a young man could compare to what the victims of apartheid experienced every day, and I could only imagine the courage that had led Mandela to occupy that prison cell for so many years.

Establishing this balance has demanded Theiler's unwavering dedication, often in the face of both professional and personal obstacles.

More recent explanations have emphasized social and personal obstacles, such as discrimination and isolation, that women face when they enter or try to advance in male-dominated fields.