Sentence examples for place obstacles from inspiring English sources

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.

I am only there to place obstacles in your path, so you can find your own way round them.' Among the pupils from almost every part of the world who have found their own way round are Dario Fo in Milan, Ariane Mnouchkine in Paris, Julie Taymor (who directed The Lion King) in New York, Yasmina Reza, who wrote Art, and Geoffrey Rush from Melbourne (who won an Oscar for Shine).

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.

But fate places obstacles in his way.

Along the way, though, market forces placed obstacles in their path.

Kaine described student debt as an economic problem, which placed obstacles between young people and the lives they wanted.

We should be giving people a helping hand to quit smoking, not placing obstacles in their way".