Sentence examples for place obstacle from inspiring English sources

But just as you can't expect people to pull themselves up by their boot straps if you hide all of the boots from them, you can't place obstacle after obstacle in someone's way, and then criticize them for taking too long to get to the finish line, or for giving up and quitting the race altogether.

Yet every leader can place obstacles in the way of solutions.

"If we place obstacles in the way of their aircraft, they look for other routes, by sea or by land.

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, condemned the Israeli move, saying that Israel continued to place obstacles before the peace process.

This increased the destructive power of an artillery shell by a large amount and allowed field artillery to place obstacles in the path of enemy tanks at a range of several miles.

As stresses are exerted, the crystals slip against each other; but, because of the complexity of the crystal structure, the more such slips are multiplied, the more they tend to place obstacles in the way of further slippage, because the various dislocation lines crisscross each other.

They jeopardize public safety, prevent too many Americans from reaching their full potential, and place obstacles in the way of raising a healthy generation of young people.

"The decision... will place obstacles in the path of any effort to start a peace process that will lead to security and peace," said Nabil Abu Rdainah, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

But it was a mistake to place obstacles in the path of the only conceivable means of fairly apportioning and seating delegates from two large states with a combined total of 400 delegates.

Administrative barriers obtaining mental health care even if legal entitlement exists In countries where legal access to health care for IMs is in place, obstacles in the form of administrative barriers were often reported.

In other words, learn to hear the real message and feel compassion for their loss rather than frustration at their attempt to place obstacles before you.