Sentence examples for secured obstacles from inspiring English sources

To test manoeuvrability and flight behaviour, we secured obstacles (plastic linked chains, 1.2 1.5 m long, and 0.025 m in diameter) in three parallel off-centered rows spaced 1 m apart.

Small businesses face obstacles securing government contracts, and small suppliers are very often at the bottom of the list when it comes time for invoices to be paid.

Despite the apparent hum of activity, the port isn't yet performing as well as hoped: the main obstacle is that it hasn't yet secured a service from Asia, where the biggest ships come from.

Hawthorn's official history was titled "The Hard Way" and like last year, they overcame innumerable obstacles to secure this flag.

The status of the former rebels has been one of the main obstacles to securing a lasting peace since the end of the civil war in 2006.

The institute said nervous employers were reluctant to hire against a backdrop of slack demand, obstacles to securing bank loans and worries about skills shortages.

In a statement last week, the agency said that it "often faces significant obstacles" in "securing removal of some employees who may have committed abuses," and said that it would review its procedures.

The demotion of Gove shows that the prime minister will spare nobody – not even close friends – as he removes obstacles to securing a Tory majority at next year's general election.

As Dr. Goosby begins his work in Washington, he faces serious obstacles to securing the full financing Congress has authorized to combat H.I.V. and AIDS — the financing our moral obligations demand.

But despite the negative view of traders and the many political obstacles to securing Opec agreement, some analysts said the fact some of the world's biggest oil producers had managed to overcome their differences to support action was very significant.

There's still a real possibility that the Russians and Syrians are just stalling and will fudge in the end, and even if one or both are serious, there are formidable logistical and political obstacles to securing Syria's chemical weapons swiftly and completely.